On June 30 through July 1st the planets top scientists and economists alike gathered in Washington D.C. to discuss the controversial topic of climate change. Put together by the Heartland Institute this was the 6th International Conference on Climate Change. The Heartland Institute was founded in 1984 and whose mission is to “discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems.” During this meeting Joseph Romm left-wing center for American Progress blogger, Micheal Mann, Patrick Micheals, Anthony Watts among many others turned in to speak and listen to different ideas and research they’ve uncovered.
Micheal Mann is a scientist who believes in the “hockey stick” paleoclimate data suggesting a dramatic recent rise in average temperatures. Scott Denning another scientist talked of how the atmosphere contains around 800 million tons of carbon dioxide and that humans are emitting 8 billion tons themselves per year. Where this is being divided up is two tons being absorbed by the ocean and two tons by plants and the other 4 tons into the atmosphere that will stay there for centuries as the oceans slowly absorb.
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