HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – A convention billed as the "World's Biggest Gathering of 'Skeptic' Scientists and Police Experts" will feature a University of Alabama in Huntsville climate expert as a speaker.
Roy Spencer, principal research scientist at UAH's Earth System Science Center, is on the roster of speakers at The Heartland Institute's 9th International Conference on Climate Change in Las Vegas next month.
The conference brings together experts to discuss climate change issues, particularly the issue of the influence humans have on the climate.
The idea of a convention for scientific "skeptics" should be embraced, Spencer said.
"All scientists should be skeptics," he said in the UAH announcement. "The reason why is that, even with the best of scientific measurements, we can come up with all kinds of explanations of what those measurements mean in terms of cause and effect, and yet most of those explanations are wrong.
"It's really easy to be wrong in science ... it's really hard to be right."
The outspoken Spencer said his speech will focus on "how small changes in the ocean circulation can cause natural periods of global warming or cooling, and that we really don't know how much of recent warming was due to this natural process."