Thursday, December 8, 2016

'WE'VE GOT TO BACK UP OUR SCIENCE WITH VERIFIABLE FACTS'

 TRUMP   MISSION  CONTROL  HOUSTON  REWRITES  CLIMATE SCIENCE
 AT  THE  HERITAGE  FOUNDATION:

All facts verified by Quintana Energy Partners,  formed by Quintana Capital Group, L.P. 
"to make control-oriented equity investments across the oil and natural gas, coal and power industries."  The firm styles itself : "opportunistic in selecting investments across the upstream, service and downstream sectors of the energy industry." 

9:15 am Welcome & Introductory Remarks
Becky Norton Dunlop, The Heritage Foundation 
Brooke Rollins, Texas Public Policy Foundation

9:30 am :        CONGRESSIONAL UPDATE
Senator Mike Lee, Member, Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee
Congressman Lamar Smith, Chairman, House Committee
on Science, Space, & Technology
Congressman Pete Olson,  Chairman, Energy & Power Subcommittee, House Energy & Commerce
Congressman Gary Palmer,  Member,  House Committee on Science, Space, & Technology
Moderated by  Tim Chapman,  Heritage Action                                                

11:00 am :        KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
Senator Jim Inhofe, Chairman, U.S. Senate Environment  & Public Works  Committee
Corbin J. Robertson, Jr., Principal, Quintana Capital Group                                                                                                       

12:45 pm :   ENERGY & CLIMATE POLICY
Dr. David Kreutzer, The Heritage Foundation
Patrick J. Michaels, Cato Institute
Mark P. Mills, Manhattan Institute
Moderated by Horace Cooper, National Center for Public Policy

2:00 pm :    INDUSTRY & THE ECONOMY
Patrick Forkin, Peabody Energy
Allen Gilmer,  Texas Independent Petroleum Producers Association 
Dan Byers, U.S. Chamber, Institute for 21st Century Energy 
Moderated by Nick Loris, The Heritage Foundation

3:00 pm  A CONVERSATION ON CLIMATE INTIMIDATION
Andrew M. Grossman, Free Speech in Science Dr. Willie Soon, Independent Scientist

3:45 pm : IS CO2 REALLY A POLLUTANT? UPDATE FROM THE CO2 COALITION
Dr. William Happer, Princeton University
Dr. Craig D. Idso, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change 
Dr. David R. Legates, University of Delaware
Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Dr. Roy W. Spencer, University of Alabama at Huntsville 
Moderated by Patrick J. Michaels, Cato Institute

5:00 pm   Concluding Remarks
Becky Norton Dunlop, The Heritage Foundation;
Brooke Rollins, Texas Public Policy Foundation

6:30 pm  Dinner Keynote Address:
                  FUELING FREEDOM: EXPOSING THE MAD WAR ON ENERGY 
The Honorable Kathleen Hartnett White,  Texas Public Policy Foundation 
[ Author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels : 'The IPCC] never really takes on an explanation of how the other variables in climate affect climate… It never takes on the Sun ... Fritz Varenholt,  who wrote a book called The Neglected Sun. As a scientist, he's just appalled that better knowledge about the role of the Sun would not be a part of the science]

Moderated by The Honorable Doug Domenech, Texas Public Policy Foundation
                                        
  ELSEWHERE  IN  TRUMP TRANSITION  TEAM  CREDIBILITY  NEWS:
  ‘ The Intel on This Wasn’t 100%,’
          Says Pizzeria Gunman

In  an  interview with  The Times,  a soft-spoken  Edgar  M. Welch  described  from  jail  his thoughts leading up to his decision to fire an assault rifle inside Comet Ping Pong in Washington, D.C.