The Heartland Institute, described by the NY Times as “a public policy research group in Chicago opposed to regulatory approaches to environmental problems,” is running a conference today and tomorrow that offers skeptics on Global Warming a platform.
The skeptical position gained ammunition last week with the widespread trumpeting of news of a very recent cooling trend around the planet.
Many climate scientists argue in return that climate change is by its nature unstable and that it’s long term trends that count — and that right now the long term is still looking decidely cozy.