Evaluating Climate Models and Observations: CERES presentations to The Heritage Foundation (May 13, 2025)
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On May 13, 2025, CERES co-team leaders, Dr. Willie Soon and Dr. Michael Connolly, both gave presentations at the Heritage Foundation’s one day symposium on “Is the Sky Falling? Reconsidering the Endangerment Finding”. This symposium was related to a book launch that included as one chapter our recent report for the Heritage Foundation that we discussed here. In this post, we provide links to the two presentations and the subsequent Q&A session.
The Heritage Foundation is the largest conservative think-tank in the U.S. However, CERES supporters and readers will know that we believe that,
"...scientific research works best when it is independent from industry, government, religion, politics or ideology." - CERES website "Support Us" page.
So, some readers might wonder why we gave our presentations to this symposium or contributed our report to an openly political think-tank.
Members of our team have different political views - from left-wing to right-wing. We believe that it is important for science to go beyond politics and for us to share our findings with all sides of the political spectrum. [Note: we approve of the efforts of the Heterodox Academy which is also trying to promote a similar message in academia]. For this reason, we were proud to have been invited to present our findings to this very influential and important D.C.-based think-tank.
The session we contributed to was entitled, "Evaluating Climate Models and Observations".
Dr. Soon’s talk was entitled, “The Unreliability of Current Global Temperature and Solar Activity Estimates and Its Implications for the Attribution of Global Warming”. In this talk, he summarized the findings from our recent report for the Heritage Foundation (https://report.heritage.org/sr305).
The Rumble version can be found here.
The slides for Dr. Soon's presentation can be downloaded below:
Dr. Connolly’s talk was entitled, “20 million weather balloons: How this data shows that all the climate models are based on wrong assumptions”. In this talk, he summarized the findings from more than a decade of detailed analysis of the weather balloon data.
The Rumble version is here.
The slides for Dr. Connolly's presentation can be downloaded below:
Finally, we participated in a short Question and Answer (Q&A) session, along with Dr. Roy Spencer who had also given a presentation in the “Evaluating Climate Models and Observations” session. Dr. Spencer is a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and the U.S. Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) on NASA's Aqua satellite.
After the three presentations, Dr. William Beach, former Commissioner of Labor Statistics and head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) chaired this interesting and informative Q&A session.
The Rumble version is here.