2009 International Conference on Climate Change
Organizer: Heartland Institute. The organizers of a March 2008
conference that brought together more than 500 scientists, economists,
and other experts on global warming today unveiled plans to hold a
second conference on March 8-10, 2009, once again in New York City.
The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change will serve as a
platform for scientists and policy analysts from around the world who
question the theory of man-made climate change. This year’s theme,
“Global Warming Crisis: Cancelled,” calls attention to new research
findings that contradict the conclusions of the latest
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
Hosting the conference for the second consecutive year will be The
Heartland Institute, a 24-year-old national nonpartisan think tank
based in Chicago. “All of the event’s expenses are being covered by
individual and foundation donors to Heartland,” said Dan Miller,
executive vice president of the institute. “No corporate dollars
earmarked for the event were solicited or accepted.”
The 2008 conference featured presentations by more than 100 prominent
scientists and economists from the U.S. and around the world, including
Dr. Robert Balling (Arizona State University), Dr. Stanley Goldenberg
(NOAA), Dr. William Gray (Colorado State University), Dr. Yuri Izrael
(IPCC), Dr. Patrick Michaels (University of Virginia), Dr. Paul Reiter
(Institut Pasteur, Paris), Dr. S. Fred Singer (Science and
Environmental Policy Project), Dr. Willie Soon (Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics), and Dr. Roy Spencer (NASA).
The 2008 event attracted extensive media attention in the U.S. and internationally, including news coverage by The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, Reuters, National Geographic, ABC, BBC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, and others.
“Last March we proved that the skeptics in the debate over global
warming constitute the center or mainstream of the scientific
community, while the alarmists are on the fringe,” said Heartland
President Joseph Bast. “In the past six months, the science has grown
even more convincing that global warming is not a crisis. Opinion polls
and political events, including the defeat of ‘cap-and-trade’
legislation in the U.S. Senate, also suggest this ‘crisis’ is over. It
has been cancelled by sound science and common sense.”