Bad News

For anyone researching the effects of human-induced global warming, you've been wasting your time. At least that's what the attendees of this conference are claiming.

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[PoeM]

If climate change is not human induced, it is not worth studying? You reveal your motives for studying climate change when you make such a silly statement. Science is about getting to the truth regardless of where it leads.

No one questions that the climate changes - climate is not static. Regardless of whether climate change is man-made or not, understanding climate is a worthwhile endeavor.

Btw, how's this for climate change:
http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm

[John]

PoeM,
I was not implying that it is not worth studying. That comment was simply in reference to the aforementioned conference's oppositional stance. Nonetheless, I agree with you're stance about motives in science. In fact, that is why I pointed out this conference, it is has clear motives that bias its interpretation of the available research.
The sponsoring organization, The Heartland Institute, has the following mission: "The mission of The Heartland Institute is to discover and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. Such solutions include parental choice in education, market-based approaches to environmental protection, privatization of public services, and deregulation in areas where property rights and markets do a better job than government bureaucracies."
It is in their interest to debunk any theories of human induced climate change. We are already seeing a global push for energy regulation, which conflict with their neoliberal free-market visions of privatization and deregulation.