Jay Lehr Science Director the Heartland Institute [email protected] 312/377‐4000

Jay Lehr Science Director The Heartland Institute [email protected] 312/377‐4000 “Are these United Nations IPCC people really serious about alarming the world, yet again, that we will all die if we do not stop emitting CO2 immediately? They are not entitled to their own facts, no matter how many times they continue to cry wolf about our common future. “The fact is that the IPCC's climate models have failed to predict the lack of global warming while atmospheric CO2 continues to increase. The natural experiment for the last 18 to 20 years has provided us a confident answer that atmospheric CO2 is not an important player for controlling the globe temperature. So the IPCC would do everyone a great favor by telling us what they propose: To achieve their aims, the world must have zero emissions of CO2 by 2100. “When will IPCC admit that their scare mongering is simply not working anymore? Our wonderful planet is not IPCC's private casino parlor.” Willie Soon Astrophysicist Policy Advisor, The Heartland Institute [email protected] 312/377‐4000 “The IPCC and the world’s press seem to be in a unique co‐dependent relationship. It has been about a year since the IPCC’s first press event on AR5. That report was old news long ago. Few other bodies employing repeated lavish junkets could garner this much press attention for recycled announcements of dire conclusions at odds with their own facts. “The probabilities cited by them aren’t scientific; they aren’t actual probabilities. They are just the opinions of fallible human beings dressed up to look scientific. They become even more meaningless when they are raised from nearly 100 percent to even more nearly 100 percent. It is remarkable that this number swill is accepted as science in the first place. But it is even more remarkable that its ludicrous echoes make the news again and again as fresh as spring flowers. “Fortunately, the IPCC is self‐limiting. It cannot draw out the drama too long on the Fifth Assessment Report without interfering with the next report, which no doubt is in deep planning even now. I wonder if this so‐called settled science ever will be so truly settled that a future assessment report (say, the 42nd assessment report) will conclude that there is no need for another.” Christopher Essex Professor and Associate Chair Department of Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario Policy Advisor, Environment The Heartland Institute [email protected] 519/661‐3649 “As evidence increasingly mounts that climate alarmists’ claims are full of hot air, the more shrill their cries become that the end is near, absent quick conversion, a climate apocalypse is in the offing. Nothing brings out the ire and panicked response of end‐time prophets more than evidence that their faith has been misplaced and science is proving them wrong. “Fewer severe storms, an 18 ‐year stall in temperature rise, more polar bears, more Antarctic ice – all the facts are aligning against long‐time promoters of the theory of human‐caused warming. Millions of dollars have been spent and their reputations are on the line, thus the IPCC fights a rear‐guard action. “Regardless of the level of CO2, the fact remains temperatures are stalled. Forests, grasslands, and fields are expanding, and life spans are increasing. The only way to draw attention away from the good news is through hyperbole and by desperately clinging to flawed predictions.” H. Sterling Burnett Research Fellow, Environment & Energy Policy The Heartland Institute Managing Editor, Environment & Climate News [email protected] 800/859‐1154 “United Nations Secretary‐General Ban Ki‐moon exemplified the childish and deceptive nature of the UN’s approach to climate change when he told reporters at this week’s launch of the Synthesis Report in Copenhagen: ‘Human influence on the climate system is clear – and clearly growing. ... The atmosphere and oceans have warmed. ... Science has spoken. There is no ambiguity in their message.’ “In reality, human influence on global climate is not even detectable. It is lost in the noise of natural variability. Neither the oceans nor the atmosphere have warmed of late (the atmosphere since 1998, the oceans since 2003). There is massive ambiguity in the science. Only in the speculative climate models and the minds of UN bureaucrats is dangerous human‐caused climate change ‘unequivocal.’” Tom Harris Executive Director International Climate Science Coalition Policy Advisor, Energy and Environment The Heartland Institute [email protected] 312/377‐4000 “It is hard to fathom yet another IPCC report attempting to crank up climate fears. This latest UN IPCC climate report confirms that ‘global warming’ is being run like a partisan campaign issue ‒ full of urgency, a grand bargain of ‘act now or else,’ and carefully crafted messaging to persuade the public. “The new report is boring, boring, boring. Even though climate coverage is my mission, I am having extreme difficulty covering the latest IPCC report. Please give us something new and different! The same partisan figures like Michael Oppenheimer (funded by Big Hollywood’s Barbara Streisand and EDF) and the same media articles have to be tedious even to the warmists themselves at this point. “I predict that no matter the obstacles, the Obama administration, led by Sec. of State John Kerry, will sign ‘something’ in Paris in 2015. Obama and Kerry will seek a climate ‘legacy’ and will have a big symbolic moment signing a climate treaty. It remains to be seen what the GOP or the next president will do with the climate change issue.” Marc Morano Publisher Climate Depot [email protected] 312/377‐4000 Morano is the producer and host of the upcoming documentary Climate Hustle. “The first four words of the report are very important: ‘Climate change is happening.’ You bet it is. The climate of planet Earth has been constantly changing for 4.5 billion years. Earth has been frozen into a sort of ice ball on at least four occasions (the ice ages) and has been as warm or warmer than it is today at least three times (Interglacial Periods) during its history. Smaller changes such as the Medieval Warm Spell and the Little Ice Age come more often, and smaller swings in climate occur almost constantly. “It seems to me that climate scientists, the media, environmentalists, bureaucrats, and politicians have all been thinking about climate in a wrong way for a couple of decades now. They seem to have been thinking that there is a normal climate and it is what the climate was when mankind began to use fossil fuels. They have been positioning the climate debate to tell us that it is our responsibility to maintain the climate exactly as it was then. But natural changes in the climate have been continuing since that time. “There is no reasonable way to conclude that, at this time, important, meaningful, or significant ‘climate change is happening.’ Yes, we are altering the climate at spots and in minor ways through our activities, but the bottom line is that it is not changing very much and no significant climate change is occurring or likely in the future. There is no climate crisis.” John Coleman Meteorologist Founder, The Weather Channel Policy Advisor, Environment The Heartland Institute [email protected] 312/377‐4000 “The latest ‘Synthesis Report’ released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that the panel is more certain than ever the planet is warming and humans are the cause. “Despite the fact half of all the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere since the dawn of the industrial age has been produced since 1990, the peer‐reviewed, scientific literature has concluded there has been no significant increase in average global temperature since 1998, the year Seinfeld aired its final episode. “How exactly the IPCC can be more certain than ever that human activity will have severe, ‘pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems’ when their temperature predictions have been woefully inaccurate may well be the biggest mystery of the entire climate debate. Perhaps this report has been called a ‘synthesis report’ because it is based on ‘synthetic science.’” Isaac Orr Research Fellow, Energy and Environment Policy The Heartland Institute [email protected] 312/377‐4000 “Everything you need to know about how perverse and dangerous the IPCC is can be summed up in its latest report. It is the same tired, old, and untrue claims of ‘severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.’ The IPCC wants the world to stop using coal, oil, and natural gas, saying that they must be ‘phased out almost entirely’ by the end of the century. The report reeks of the IPCC’s contempt for humanity. “Losing electricity, no matter where you live, is losing every technology that enhances, preserves, and extends your life. You lose the ability to cool or warm your home, apartment, or workplace. You lose the ability to keep food safe in your refrigerator and freezer. You most certainly lose lighting. You lose the ability to turn on your computer or television. Indeed, you lose everything you take for granted. “Eighty‐seven percent of the energy mankind uses everyday comes from burning one of the fossil fuels: coal, oil, or natural gas. That has not stopped environmentalists from denouncing coal and oil as ‘dirty’ because their use generates carbon dioxide emissions. What they never tell you is how small those emissions are, that they play an infinitesimal role in Earth’s weather and climate, and are essential to the growth of all vegetation. They never tell you that Earth has centuries more of untapped reserves.

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