Warmist Theo Anderson, who has an American history Ph.D., admits not understanding the scientific presentations at the latest Heartland climate conference

Trouble in the Heartland - In These Times

So what was the quality of the science? I’m sure I couldn’t say. Though I attended several panel presentations, each of which was advertised as a devastating blow to the science of climate change, and though I made a good-faith effort to follow the speakers, I have only the vaguest idea of what they were trying to say.

“How much will the average T change for a given change in the energy budget?” one speaker asked during a talk about the role of solar activity in climate change.

It went on like this for hours. A dense graph would appear, followed by a few sentences of jargon, followed shortly by another dense graph and more jargon, interspersed with the occasional joke about Al Gore and his “documendacity,” as one speaker put it.

Part of the problem was that I have no expertise in the relevant science, and neither did the other 75 or so people in the audience at the presentations, I’m certain. Invariably, several of them would be dozing.  [Does anyone ever appear to be dozing at warmist/UN conferences?]

...Theo Anderson, an In These Times staff writer, is writing a book about the historical and contemporary influence of pragmatism on American politics. He has a Ph.D. in American history from Yale University and teaches history and literature seminars at the Newberry Library in Chicago.