Evaluating Climate Models and Observations: Q & A session (May 13, 2025, The Heritage Foundation)

On May 13, 2025, CERES co-team leaders, Dr. Willie Soon and Dr. Michael Connolly, both gave presentations at the Heritage Foundation’s one day symposium on “Is the Sky Falling? Reconsidering the Endangerment Finding”: https://www.heritage.org/climate/event/the-sky-falling-reconsidering-the-endangerment-finding

Dr. Roy Spencer https://www.drroyspencer.com/ also gave a presentation in the “Evaluating Climate Models and Observations” session. Dr. Spencer is a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and the U.S. Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) on NASA's Aqua satellite.

After the three presentations, Dr. William Beach, former Commissioner of Labor Statistics and head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Beach_%28economist%29 chaired this interesting and informative Question and Answer (Q&A) session.

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Chapters:
00:00 How reliable are the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports?
00:52 How well do current climate models incorporate new scientific discoveries?
06:57 Are the climate models properly tested against real-world measurements?
10:15 Should we not just rely on the climate models that provide the closest agreement to the global temperature data?
12:25 Why don’t we have a closer relationship between climate models and reality?
13:42 How does the climate change impacts from urban heat islands compare to global climate change from CO2?
14:59 Was a solar flare responsible for the recent electric grid blackout in Spain and Portugal or is there a better explanation?

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