On May 5, 9:42 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Your comment could have been informed if you had watched the talk on the
> video link
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> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:11 AM, GregfromBoston <greg.vinc...@yahoo.com>wrote:
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> > "No now Cato!" - Jaques Clouseau
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> > And Bob Ryan is a sports writer for the Boston Globe, and frequents
> > ESPN's Around the Horn
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> > :-)
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> > On May 4, 12:37 pm, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > *Climate Coup: Global Warming's Invasion of Our Government and Our Lives*
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> > > Wednesday, May 4, 2011
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> > > Featuring *Richard Lindzen*, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology,
> > MIT;
> > > *Bob Ryan*, Fellow and past president of the American Meteorological
> > Society
> > > and meteorologist for WJLA / ABC 7 News; moderated by*Patrick J.
> > Michaels*,
> > > Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and editor of *Climate Coup*.
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> > > Despite consistent evidence that climate change does not portend an
> > > apocalyptic future, global-warming alarmism is invading nearly every
> > aspect
> > > of our lives. The newly published book *Climate Coup* is an antidote to
> > > this, confronting the exaggerations, opportunism, and myths about global
> > > warming that are altering the shapes of our lives and deeply impacting
> > > decisions about health, education, law, national defense, international
> > > development, trade, and academic publishing. Is any alarmism justified?
> > Are
> > > all of the claims being made unrealistic and unsupported? What is the
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> > > of government? This special book forum will offer perspectives from two
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> > > what promises to be an exceptionally vigorous discussion of the evidence
> > and
> > > impact of global warming.
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> > > *Speakers:*
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> > > *Richard Lindzen* is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT,
> > > where he pursues groundbreaking research on the sensitivity of
> > temperature
> > > to changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide. He is recipient of the American
> > > Meteorological Society's Meisinger and Charney Awards and the Macelwane
> > > Medal from the American Geophysical Union — three of the most prestigious
> > > prizes in atmospheric science. He is a member of the National Academy of
> > > Sciences; a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
> > > Science, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Meteorological
> > > Society; and a corresponding member of the National Academy of Science
> > > Committee on Human Rights. Dr. Lindzen holds AB, SM, and PhD degrees from
> > > Harvard University.
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> > > *Bob Ryan* is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and holds
> > the
> > > Charles Franklin Brooks award from the Society for outstanding service.
> > Well
> > > known in the Washington metropolitan area, Bob Ryan is a meteorologist
> > for
> > > WJLA / ABC 7 News. In 1996, he was elected president of the AMS and he
> > has
> > > also served the Society as Chair of the Committee of Broadcast
> > Meteorology,
> > > Commissioner of Professional Affairs, and member of the Council of the
> > > Society. He is chair of the AMS Development Committee and most recently
> > held
> > > an AMS Presidential Forum on the communication of weather and climate
> > > information. As a highly visible and very active communicator on climate
> > > change, Bob Ryan is uniquely qualified to comment on the interaction
> > between
> > > government and climate science. He holds BS and MS degrees from
> > SUNY-Albany.
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> > > *Patrick J. Michaels* (moderator) is senior fellow in environmental
> > studies
> > > at the Cato Institute, a Distinguished Senior Fellow in the School of
> > Public
> > > Policy at George Mason University, and a past president of the American
> > > Association of State Climatologists. He has authored and co-authored
> > > numerous books on climate change, including *Meltdown: The Predictable
> > > Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media*
> > and
> > > *Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to
> > Know*.
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