2023 Climate Skeptics Conference: "We’re Winning!" No, They’re Not—But How they Could Win
2023 Climate Skeptics Conference: "We’re Winning!" No, They’re Not—But How they Could Win In February, I attended the 2023 Heartland Institute 15th International Conference on Climate Change discussing hardcore skepticism about global warming. Most of the press and public consider global warming (which they now call climate change) a possible end-of-the-world threat. Heartland is the foremost exception. Heartland began in 1984, “… to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems.” They soon zeroed in on predictions of catastrophic global warming and have been fiercely skeptical of it ever since. This year’s 2023 conference continued the tradition. The conference included high caliber climate scientists, economists, and energy experts, many whom are retired or otherwise insulated from possible loss of government funding. At every Heartland conference, the presentations target fallacies in the theory of a massive