The sixth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC), a large gathering of human-caused climate disruption deniers that is sponsored by the Heartland Institute, opens tomorrow morning. The frontpage for the conference website makes a number of misleading or false statements, but one phrase that caught my eye was “The scientists speaking at this conference…” This list of speakers contains so few actual scientists (and even fewer climate scientists) that labeling the speakers as “scientists” is misleading.

Let’s take a quick look at the speakers:

So, out of 27 speakers, we have between 10 and 11 speakers who qualify as scientists – the rest are lawyers, economists, etc. That’s less than half of the speakers who have scientific credentials, and only seven have directly relevant climate science expertise.

With so few scientists and climate scientists, it’s misleading for the ICCC to be labeling the speakers as scientists on the conference website’s frontpage.