The annual meeting of the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness convened from July 5-7 in El Paso, Texas, featuring a number of prominent scientists, academics, and policy experts. The speakers represented a variety of disciplines, including not only public policy and economics but also the hard sciences of astrophysics, climate modeling, statistical analysis, physics, and epidemiology, among others.
CFACT’s President Craig Rucker delivered a talk on the first day of the gathering that included a review of some of the successes the climate realist movement has achieved in recent years. He pointed to laws passed in “Red” states to protect the grid from costly renewables and stop China land grabs, to recent Supreme Court decisions like W. Virginia v. EPA and Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo that rolled back greenhouse gas regulations and the onerous Chevron deference.
“There is a lot of reason to be optimistic about the future,” noted Ru
cker after his talk, “We just saw the public backlash against the Green New Deal in the EU elections, and now America is poised to do the same this November. The environmental movement has been a victim of its own success. As it implemented its agenda, people began to suffer, costs went up, and freedoms became limited. The public is now on to them, and they have had enough.”
Other speakers included, among others, Oregon State Senator Arthur Robinson, Dr. Ross McKitrick of the University of Guelph (Canada), Professor Larry Bell of the University of Houston, Christopher Farell of Judicial Watch, Astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon, and Nobel Prize winner Dr. John Clauser.
Two awards were also handed out as well. The first was the Dr. Petr Beckmann Award delivered to the Heartland Institute’s Diane Bast, and the second was the Edward Teller Award given to Dr. John Clauser. Videos of the presentations of the various addresses will be posted on the DDP website at https://www.ddponline.org/ in the near future.