Notes from the Santa Fe Conference | Climate Etc.

I am currently in Santa Fe, attending the Third Santa Fe Conference on Global and Regional Climate.
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This is an unusual conference. The conference organizer is Petr Chylek, generally regarded as a skeptic. In his opening comments, Chylek stated that this conference is open to people from all scientifically valid points of view. I’m not exactly sure how to interpret the ‘scientifically valid,’ but the conference includes IPCC authors as well as noted skeptics such as Fred Singer. Apparently some people on the ‘warm’ side declined to attend because they would not attend a conference with certain skeptics in the room. A number of talks began with a comment or disclaimer to the effect that they only care about science, and pay relatively little attention or care little about the public debate and noise surrounding it.
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On Tuesday night, a conference dinner was held. I gave a keynote presentation entitled “The uncertainty monster at the climate science-policy interface.” The talk is on youtube. My talk was interrupted [at the 14:50 mark] by an irate audience member  (who is an AR5 author).
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The Chair of the Program Petr Chylek made some critical comments regarding NSF funding (i.e. no funding for skeptics). Some people complained that he was out of line in pushing this as the moderator of the evenings activities.
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Today I had lunch with Richard Muller and Christopher Monckton (!) Topics covered included Climategate, the IPCC, climate sensitivity, trend analysis. I was relatively passive, just taking it all in :) What an amazing conversation.

Notes from the Santa Fe Conference | Climate Etc.

[Curry comment] It seems that most of the hard-core scientists don’t pay much attention to the blogs.