Good value may be derived from a specific project. $1750 x 3. Tell each
speaker that is the total amount. They make their own arrangements for
the one day and two nights and thus determine their own "extra."
Fund $1750 each to an Idso, Lindzen and Stephenson to cover expenses and
and leftover for honorarium to be speakers at "Global Warming - Scientific
Perspectives" - a one day Symposium embedded in the 1999 National meet of
the American Nuclear Society in Long Beach CA on either November 16 or 17.
I attend as Executive committee board member of environmental Sciences
Division of ANS.
An abstract would be needed from each. I would be responsible. Robert Addis
of Savannah River Plant is Chairing the Symposium. We are firmly on the
calendar. This is not a "maybe." We have this unique window of opportunity
to place specific speakers. ANS funds no one. We (ESD board) met on this
topic in Washington upon my return from BA. I have implored ANS to have
such a panel for 7 years. You realize that the lifeline global warming
emissions seems to have thrown them is sacrosanct and to call emissions
beneficial is not a popular position.
Presenting this science before engineers and scientists and professionals,
even though they probably do not want to hear it, is a needed small step
toward cooler heads on this hot air issue. Write-ups and papers presented
will then be included in the "Nuclear News" mag following the meet and in
the division newsletter to members.
Registration fee will be waived for them (normal $500 each).
They could each get 30 min to talk and immediately 15 min to answer questions.
Lindzen would cover the assumptions, evaluations and uncertainties behind
modeling climate change.
Robert Stephenson - an oceanographer- would cover the role of the ocean in
global climate change.
Keith or Serwood Idso would cover the effects on agriculture of climate
change.
This would fund three of a total of eight speakers. I can influence the
committee enough to secure these three, probably not more.