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Boebert Johnson Epstein Panel at Heartland's Climate Conference 2023
Left to right: Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO); Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI); Alex Epstein; and a panel discussion on ESG with Jason Isaac, Paul Watkins, and Marlo Lewis at The Heartland Institute's 15th International Conference on Climate Change in Orlando Florida in 2023.

Saturday, February 25

PATRICK J. MICHAELS BALLROOM: BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND DINNER KEYNOTES

NOTE: The video above has chapters, so float your cursor along the bottom of the video to find the part of the video you want to see.

Breakfast Keynote – Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023 (00:00 – 45:25)
Marlo Oaks is the treasurer of the state of Utah. He spoke about his efforts in his state to fight ESG (Environment, Social, Governance).

Lunch Keynote – Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023 (Johnson 46:26 – 1:41:19; Boebert 1:41:20 – 2:29:06)
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on climate and COVID, then and U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) on climate, energy, and politics.

Dinner Keynote – Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023 (Debate 2:29:07 – 3:30:03; Super Panel 3:30:04 – 4:19:11; James Taylor closing remarks 4:19:12)
Dr. Peter Hartley and Dr. William Happer argue the pros and cons of taxing the emissions of carbon dioxide. PLUS, a “super panel” of several experts to take questions from the audience, and then Heartland Institute President James Taylor delivers remarks to close out The Heartland Institute’s 15th International Conference on Climate Change in Orlando, Florida.

TRACK A (Science, Mostly)
JAY H. LEHR Breakout ROOM

NOTE: The video above has chapters, so float your cursor along the bottom of the video to find the part of the video you want to see.

Panel 5A – Killing Agriculture to Save the Planet (00:00 – 1:21:18)
Gregory Wrightstone on “Climate Change and the Midwest: Life in America’s breadbasket is good and getting better”; Patrick Moore on “Golden Rice Now”; David Legates on “Nitrous Oxide (N2O): the New Satanic Gas.” Followed by audience Q&A.

Panel 6A – Today’s Extreme Weather Is Not That Extreme (1:21:19 – 2:52:19)
Stanley Goldenberg on “Why Does it Seem Like Hurricanes Are Getting Stronger and More Destructive”; Joe Bastardi on “Is Weather Getting Worse?”; Christopher Monckton on “Why Extremer Weather Was Wrongly Expected.” Followed by audience Q&A.

Panel 7A – Climate, Energy, and Animals (including Humans) (2:52:20 – 4:18:50)
H. Sterling Burnett on “The Misuse and Abuse of Animals in the Climate Debate”; David Stevenson on how offshore wind is hurting whales and other marine life; Francis Menton on “Challenging EPA’s Greenhouse Gas ‘Endangerment Finding’ in Court.” Followed by audience Q&A.

Panel 8A – The Right Climate Stuff Team on Energy (4:18:51 – 5:52:35)
Tom Moser on “Climate Change Truth and the Path Forward”; Marty Cornell on “NetZero: Materially Improbable”; Gregg Goodnight on “ERCOT and Renewable Power Integration”‘ and Bob Bauman on “The Future of Nuclear Energy.” Followed by audience Q&A.

TRACK B (Policy/Energy, Mostly)
WALT CUNNINGHAM Breakout ROOM

NOTE: The video above has chapters, so float your cursor along the bottom of the video to find the part of the video you want to see.

Panel 5B – Green Energy and Exploitation (00:00 – 1:25:02)
Vijay Jayaraj on “Climate Imperialism”; H. Sterling Burnett on “Green Energy Technology Is Built on Force Labor, Sickness, and Environmental Destruction”; E. Calvin Beisner on “Energy Policy, and the Conquest of Poverty.” Audience Q&A.

Panel 6B – Advancing Reliable Energy (1:25:03 – 2:53:22)
Kevin Dayaratna on “Advancing Reliable Energy: Cost/Benefit Analysis”; Karr Ingham on “Markets: The Key to Abundant, Affordable, Reliable Energy”; Jason Hayes on the “Seven Principles of Sound Energy Policy”; Audience Q&A.

Panel 7B – Why NetZero is Impossible: The Continuing Need and Value of Fossil Fuels (2:53:23 – 4:19:17)
Wolfgang Müller on “The Global Cost of NetZero”; Rob Bradley on “U.S. Electricity: Government vs. Coordination”; Linnea Lueken on “Biofuels Are NOT so Green”; Audience Q&A.

Panel 8B – Government Overreach, or Tyranny? (4:19:18 – 5:48:36)
Jeff Clark on how he fought to rein in the EPA when he was in the Trump administration, and how it operates with a president in the thrall of the climate cult; Myron Ebell on “Decentralized Totalitarianism”; Audience Q&A.

Friday, February 24

PATRICK J. MICHAELS BALLROOM: BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND DINNER KEYNOTES

NOTE: The video above has chapters, so float your cursor along the bottom of the video to find the part of the video you want to see.

This video contains all the plenary sessions on Day 1 of The Heartland Institute’s 15th International Conference on Climate Change.

Breakfast Keynote – Friday, Feb. 24, 2023 (00:00 – 45:24)
Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace and now director at the CO2 Coalition, talks about “fake invisible catastrophes and threats of doom,” his turn away from Greenpace, as well as the benefits of human contributions to carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere.

Lunch Keynotes – Friday, Feb. 24, 2023
Geologist Ian Plimer, emeritus professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia, speaks on how knowing the past is key to understanding present climate (56:46 – 1:24:44). Marc Morano on The Great Reset: Global Elites & the Permanent Lockdown (1:24:45 – 2:09:20)

Dinner Keynotes – Friday, Feb 24, 2023
The Heartland Institute pays tribute to friends and scientists who had passed since the last conference with an “In Memoriam” video (2:09:21 – 2:32:40). Craig Rucker presents the 2023 Dauntless Purveyor of Climate Truth Award to Jo Nova (2:32:40 -2:51:46). Ken Haapala presents the 2023 Frederick Seitz Memorial Award to Christopher Essex (2:51:47 – 3:12:59). Alex Epstein on our Fossil Future. (3:13:00 – 4:16:17). Heartland’s Joseph Morris offers inspiring closing remarks (4:16:18 – 4:26:25)

TRACK A (Science, Mostly)
JAY H. LEHR Breakout ROOM

NOTE: The video above has chapters, so float your cursor along the bottom of the video to find the part of the video you want to see.

Panel 1A – Taking the Temperature of Global Temperatures (00:00 – 1:21:31)
Anthony Watts on “Corrupted Climate Stations and What to Do About Them”; Willie Soon on “Global warming: Mostly Human-caused or Mostly Natural?”; Joe Bastardi on “More Evidence Debunking CO2 as a Climate Control Knob”; Audience Q&A.

Panel 2A – Understanding What’s Really Happening to the Climate (1:21:32 – 2:48:37)
Ross McKitrick on “Updated Climate Sensitivity Estimates and the Social Cost of Carbon”; Judith Curry on “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming”; Richard Lindzen on “What I think the Climate is Really Doing”: Audience Q&A.

Panel 3A – Is Climate Science Scientific? (2:48:38 – 4:04:18) 
Tom Sheahen on “In Science, Data Trumps Theory: Correcting Errors in Science”; Howard Hayden on “IPCC’s Exercise in Self-contradiction”; Ken Haapala on “The Primacy of Doubt”; Audience Q&A.

Panel 4A – 4:15pm Green Agenda’s Impact on People  (4:04:19 – 5:34:25)
Donna Jackson on how “Environmental Justice” is a Scam;” Bob Carlstrom on the “Impact of Higher Green Energy Costs on the Poor and Elderly”; Margaret Byfield on “The Biden Administration’s 30×30 Land Grab”; Audience Q&A.

TRACK B (Policy/Energy, Mostly)
WALT CUNNINGHAM Breakout ROOM

NOTE: The video above has chapters, so float your cursor along the bottom of the video to find the part of the video you want to see.

Panel 1B – Consequences of Scarce Energy (00:00 – 1:14:29)
Vijay Jayaraj on “Green or Blood Red” (unfortunately, technical difficulties eliminated most of this presentation and we’re looking to replace it); Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D. on “Biden Administration Responsible for High Energy Costs”; and Marc Morano on “COVID and Climate: The Parallels Are Screaming at Us”; Audience Q&A.

Panel 2B – Defeating ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) (1:14:30 – 2:41:11)
Jason Isaac on “Raising America’s Energy IQ”; Paul Watkins on “Imposing ESG on Companies”; Marlo Lewis on “Arbitrary and Capricious: SEC’s Climate Risk Disclosure Rule”; Audience Q&A.

Panel 3B – What it Takes to Power Our Modern Society (2:41:12 – 4:06:01)
Ronald Stein on “The Elephant in the Room: We’ve Had 200 Years to Replace Fossil Fuels”; Linnea Lueken on “Myths and Legends About the Oil Industry, and How the Truth Combats Them”; Alex Epstein, “Global Human Flourishing Requires Much More Energy”; Audience Q&A.

Panel 4B – Unworkable Climate ‘Solutions’ (4:06:02 – 5:36:36)
Steve Milloy on “Net Zero: Not Needed, Not Possible and Not Survivable”; Kevin Dayaratna on “Unworkable Climate ‘Solutions’ – Carbon-based Regulation”; Ben Lieberman on “The Global War on Air Conditioning”; Audience Q&A.