Greenpeace Target Coming to Loyola University Chicago

Best-selling - and controversial - author Christopher C. Horner will be on Loyola University Chicago's Lake Shore Campus, Chicago on Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 to discuss the truth behind global warming, "climate change," and environmental extremism. Horner is the honored year-end lecturer chosen by the Loyola University Chicago College Republicans and will present "The 'Truth' Behind Global Warming."

Horner is a Senior Fellow at Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and is an internationally renowned expert on global warming and environmentalism. According to his bio at the CEI web site, "Greenpeace has repeatedly targeted Mr. Horner, by stealing his garbage on a weekly basis, issuing press releases announcing with whom he dines," and he "has provided legal, policy and political commentary several hundred times each on both television and radio, in the United States, Europe, Canada, and Australia, including scores of visits each on the Fox News Channel, Court TV, MSNBC with repeat visits on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, BBC, CNN, CNN International, ITN, CBC, Bloomberg and Reuters Television. Mr. Horner has also been a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He has guest hosted television commentary programs and makes weekly appearances on and regularly guest hosts nationally and regionally syndicated radio shows in America."

Horner has testified before the United States Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and Environment and Public Worksand has given numerous addresses to audiences in the European Parliament in Strasbourg and Brussels, and before policymakers in European capitals including London, Rome, Prague, Copenhagen, Madrid and Warsaw. He works on a legal and policy level with numerous think tanks and policy organizations throughout the world, serves on the international law practice group’s executive committee for an internationally respected assembly of lawyers. He has written on numerous topics in publications ranging from law reviews to legal and trade journals to print and online opinion pages, but concentrates on the “climate” and related energy issues, laws, treaties and policy.

He is lawyer and author of two best selling books, Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed (Regnery, 2008) and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism (Regnery, 2007).

Where: Loyola University, Mundelein Auditorium, 1032 W. Sheridan Road, Chicago.

When: Wednesday, April 28th from 7:00 - 9:00 PM

Cost:  Free to Loyola Students with ID;  $5.00 to the public (to be paid at the door).  Parking: Access to the Campus Parking Garage will be available (enter at Sheridan Road). Street parking is available on Kenmore and Winthrop. Located near the Loyola CTA Red Line. See map.

The Loyola University Chicago College Republicans strive to share and demonstrate the values, opinions and goals of the Republican Party at Loyola. They seek to provide a student forum to monitor and discuss the Republican Platform and to conduct programming to share the Republican platform with the student body of Loyola University Chicago.

For more information visit: http://www.luccollegerepublicans.com/. They are also on Facebook and Twitter at http://twitter.com/lucrepublicans. Contact: Brian Williams, Director of Public Relations at 312-919-5043. Follow Brian on Twitter http://twitter.com/WilliamsRIN.

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