The Heartland Institute invited more than 50 warmists, including dozens of lead authors and coordinating lead authors for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to speak at its Seventh International Conference on Climate Change, attend the conference, and engage skeptics in cooperative discussion and debate. None agreed to attend the conference and debate the underlying science.
Waleed Abdalati – Invited April 12
Doug Arent – NREL, IPCC Coordinating Lead Author, invited April 24
Virginia Burkett – USGS, IPCC Coordinating Lead Author, invited April 23, declined
Josefino Camiso – NASA, IPCC Coordinating Lead Author, invited April 24
Don Chambers – U of South Florida, IPCC Lead Author, invited April 23, declined
Peter Clark – Oregon State, IPCC Coordinating Lead Author, invited April 23
Rite Colwell – U of MD, IPCC Coordinating Lead Author health effects, invited April 24, declined
Ed Dlugogencky – NOAA, IPCC Lead Author, Invited April 23, declined
David Easterling – NOAA, IPCC Lead Author, invited April 23, declined
Christopher Field – IPCC interim report on extreme events, invited April 23, declined
Gregory Flato – Environment Canada, IPCC Coordinating Lead Author, invited April 23
William Gutowski – Iowa State, IPCC Lead Author, invited April 23, declined
Alex Hall – UCLA, IPCC Lead Author, invited April 23, declined
Dennis Hartmann (NAS) – invited April 23
Katharine Hayhoe – invited April 23
Susan Hedman – EPA Regional Administrator, invited April 24, declined
Geoffrey Heal – Columbia, IPCC Coordinating Lead Author, invited April 24
Anthony Janetos – PNNL, IPCC Coordinating Lead Author, April 24, declined
Alexey Kaplan – Columbia, IPCC Lead Author, invited April 23
David Karl – U. of Hawaii, Coordinating Lead Author, invited April 24
Tom Karl (NAS) – invited April 23, declined, prior speaking engagements
Ben Kirtman – U. of Miami, Coordinating Lead Author, invited April 23
Naomi Klein – declined (pregnant)
Ronald Kwok – NASA JPL, IPCC Lead Author, invited April 23, declined
Natalie Mahowald – Cornell, IPCC Lead Author, Invited April 23, declined
Pamela Matson (NAS) – invited April 23, declined
Matthew Menne – NOAA, invited April 24, declined
Kari Marie Norgaard – invited April 23
Gerald North – invited April 23, declined
Naomi Oreskes – invited April 23
Bette Otto-Bliesner – NOAA, IPCC Lead Author, invited April 23, declined
James Overland – NOAA, IPCC Lead Author, invited April 23, declined
Jonathan Overpeck – invited April 23
Raj Pachauri – invited for plenary/panel, April 23
Thomas Peterson – NOAA, IPCC4 Convening Lead Author, invited April 24, declined
Judith Perlwitz – NOAA, IPCC Lead Author, invited April 23, declined, schedule conflict
Benjamin Preston – Oak Ridge, IPCC Coordinating Lead Author, invited April 24
Roger Pulwarty – NOAA, IPCC Coordinating Lead Author, invited April 24, declined
Terrence Quinn – UT-Austin, IPCC Lead Author, invited April 23
David Randall – Colo State U., IPCC Coordinating Lead Author, invited April 23
Christopher Sabine – NOAA, IPCC Coordinating Lead Author, invited April 23, declined
Joel Smith – IPCC Coordinating Lead Author, April 24, declined
Robert Socolow (NAS) – invited April 23
Susan Solomon (NAS) – invited April 23
Drew Shindell – NASA, IPCC Coordinating Lead Author, invited April 23
Brian Soden – University of Miami, IPCC Lead Author, invited April 23
Claudia Tebaldi – NCAR, IPCC Lead Author, invited April 23, 2012, declined
Peter Thorne – NOAA, invited April 23 for Ross McKitrick panel, invited April 23, declined
Thomas Wilbanks (NAS) – declined, says he is not an expert on climate science
Donald Wuebbles – U of Illinois, IPCC Coordinating Lead Author Working Group 1, invited April 23, declined, prior speaking engagement
Gary Yohe – Wesleyan, IPCC Coordinating Lead Author, invited April 24