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Is it reality or is it just speculation ? In hopes of educating business leaders about the controversial issue surrounding climate change, Thursday afternoon, the Pike County Chamber of Commerce hosted a summit meeting in Pikeville. Canadian scientist Tom Harris spoke to hundreds who gathered to discuss the issue. Harris, who works with more than 40 other scientists, says climate change is hard to prove or disprove, listing it as the most complex scientific problem faced. He says, although we continue to learn and realize more on the subject all the time, it leaves us in an era of negative discovery that we don't fully understand. Harris says CO2 has gone up in the last 10 years and is continuing to go up, but temperatures have stabilized, while slightly dropping...so the theory of global warming doesn't match the facts. He says it's not right for lawmakers to attack the coal industry on a political theory, while crippling the area coal and natural gas industries unfairly.