The debate over whether human activity is responsible for some or all of the modern warming, and then what to do if our presence on Earth is indeed affecting the global climate, has enormous consequences for everyone in virtually all parts of the globe. Proposals to drive down human greenhouse gas emissions by raising energy costs or imposing draconian caps could dramatically affect the quality of life of people in developed countries, and, due to globalization, the lives of people in less-developed countries too.The global warming debate that the public and policymakers usually see is one-sided, dominated by government scientists and government organizations agenda-driven to find data that suggest a human impact on climate and to call for immediate government action, if only to fund their own continued research, but often to achieve political agendas entirely unrelated to the science of climate change. There is another side, but in recent years it has been denied a platform from which to speak.
The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change promises to be an exciting event and the point of departure for future conferences, publications, and educational campaigns to present both sides of this important topic...
Hundreds of scientists, economists, and public policy experts from around the world will gather on March 2-4, 2008, at the Marriott New York Marquis Hotel on Manhattan’s Time Square, to call attention to widespread dissent in the scientific community to the alleged “consensus” that the modern warming is primarily man-made and is a crisis.
Among the speakers addressing the audience will be Dennis Avery, senior fellow of the Hudson Institute's Center for Global Food Issues; Vincent Gray of the New Zealand Climate Coalition; Patrick Michaels, research professor of environmental sciences, University of Virginia; Lord Christopher Monckton, former policy advisor to Margaret Thatcher; Arthur Robinson, professor of chemistry and co-founder of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicin; S. Fred Singer, distinguished research professor, George Mason University and professor of environmental science, University of Virginia; Anthony Watts, chief meteorologist, KPAY-AM, Chico, California, and founder of SurfaceStations.org; and Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation's E. Calvin Beisner.
