The Heartland meeting, he said, was the last bastion of intellectual honesty on the climate issue.
Environmental and conservative groups have accused the administration of sowing confusion on the climate issue.
In international assessments of the climate issue, the consensus-estimate of 1.5°C to 4.5°C for climate sensitivity has remained unchanged for two decades.
Another argument against consensus messaging is that public understanding of the climate issue has moved on from fundamental issues such as the consensus.
James Taylor, the head of the conservative Heartland Institute, has called the standards' stance on climate change "unscientific speculation and hype,", while some states are fighting for the right of teachers to teach "both sides" of the climate issue.
There are only two shops in town, so, if she can shut down our coverage of the climate issue, it will be game over in Australia for a long time".
"In many ways it is the politicization of the climate issue that has stifled discussions of new and innovative policy options," Roger Pielke Jr., director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado commented after reading the speech.
Reynolds also sees an opportunity for Republicans to take control of the climate issue after many liberals rallied against a revenue-neutral carbon tax proposal in the state of Washington.
The conference also covered the psychological and behavioral pieces of the climate issue in a lecture by Elke Weber, Princeton's Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor of Energy and the Environment, psychology and public affairs, who is also associate director for education at the Andlinger Center.
