December 2, 2008

Lawrence Solomon
The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud**And those who are too fearful to do so

December 2nd
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Conference call only

On December 2nd NCF held a conference call discussion with Lawrence Solomon, author of The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud**And those who are too fearful to do so. Solomon participated in a moderated discussion with Jay Gulledge, Ph.D, Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

A recording of the call will be available soon.

Lawrence Solomon is a world-renowned environmentalist, activist, author, and columnist for the National Post.

Solomon was previously a columnist at The Globe and Mail, and has been published in several other publications such as the National Review Online, CBS News, and the Wall Street Journal. Solomon is a founder and managing director of the Energy Probe Research Foundation. The foundation works with citizen groups around the world to stop environmentally destructive projects and to promote sound development.

Click here to access a document that outlines several resources for understanding the issues raised in by Mr. Solomon in The Deniers. This resource guide has been provided by Dr. Jay Gulledge. The views expressed in this resource are his own and do not represent those of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce or the National Chamber Foundation.

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Book Synoposis

According to Solomon, he began his search for reputable dissident scientists and published the findings in his column in the National Post which began in November 2006. The book is based on these series of articles, and questions the assertion that the “science is settled” as claimed by advocates of the “consensus theory” and attacks the “alarmist” view on global warming.

Among the issues raised and alleged flaws presented are:

• The Hockey stick controversy;
• The Stern Review;
• Hurricane frequency and intensity; the lack of signs of global warming in Antarctica’s climate;
• Reservations on the predictability of climate models and its lack of falsifiability;
• The Singer-Revelle-Gore controversy;
• The alternate solar variation theory, regarding the hypotheses of the warming being driven by the interaction of the solar wind with cosmic rays affecting cloud formation.