Weather Channel Founder: Sue Al Gore to Expose Global Warming Fraud

By now most people are aware that the founder of The Weather Channel, John Coleman, said global warming is "the greatest scam in history" last November.

On Monday, while speaking at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change being held in New York City, Coleman took his criticisms further by advocating that all those involved in the sale and marketing of carbon credits, including Al Gore, should be sued "to finally put some light on the fraud of global warming.”

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Report #2 from the
Global Warming Conference in New York City
Report #2 from the Global Warming Conference in New York City
By Joseph Bast, President, The Heartland Institute
Monday, March 3, 2008 (10:30 p.m. EST)

The first full day of the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, hosted by The Heartland Institute and more than 50 cosponsors, was by all accounts an extraordinary success, from the packed breakfast and lunch plenary sessions to the rapt attention given to panelists during the 20 concurrent sessions addressing nearly every aspect of paleoclimatology, climatology, and the economics and politics of climate change.

It became clear this was no ordinary conference on climate change from the opening presentations by Dr. Robert Balling, professor of climatology at Arizona State University, and Dr. Ross McKitrick, associate professor of economics at the University of Guelph (Ontario).

Both speakers vigorously critiqued the temperature records that purport to show unprecedented warming in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, documenting a dramatic drop in the number of temperature stations, changes in temperature recording technologies, and apparent bias in adjustments to the data made by proponents of global warming alarmism.

The breakfast speakers also began what would be a running debate over Dr. Patrick Michaels’ statements, in the opening address the evening before, that a warming trend, albeit a mild one, could be discerned from recent temperature data and that it was probably of anthropogenic origin. An expected theme of the conference—that there is no consensus on the extent or causes of global warming—was doubly confirmed: Not only do “skeptics” disagree with the so-called “consensus,” but they also disagree among themselves!

With some 60 speakers presenting papers over the course of the day, it would be unfair to single out only a few for praise, particularly since the author of this report wasn’t able to attend more than a few of the presentations. But people in the hallways buzzed about presentations by Christopher Monckton, a former policy advisor to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; Willie Soon of the Science and Public Policy Institute and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Dr. George Taylor, past president of the American Association of State Climatologists; and Roy Innis, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality.

Lunch presentations by Dr. Tim Ball, former professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg, and Dr. S. Fred Singer, distinguished research professor at George Mason University, rocked the crowd. Singer announced the release of the Summary for Policymakers of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), a systematic and authoritative rebuttal of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report.

There was a moment of sadness when the death of Dr. Frederick Seitz, on Sunday, was announced at the end of lunch. Seitz, a former president of the National Academy of Sciences and president emeritus of Rockefeller University in New York, was one of the most distinguished scientists of his generation and a noted global warming skeptic. He had contributed a preface to Singer’s NIPCC report.

The newly formed International Climate Science Coalition used the conference to announce its formation and encourage the scientists and policy experts attending the conference to join it. Tom Harris, a Canadian engineer and executive director of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project in Ottawa, Ontario, is the coalition’s new executive director and can be reached at tom.harris@climatescienceinternational.net.

The Business and Media Institute also used the conference to announce the release of “Greenhouse Censored,” a new report on media bias in reporting on the climate change controversy. According to the BMI report, only 20 percent of 205 network news stories about climate change between July 1, 2007 and December 31, 2007 even mentioned an alternative view to alarmism. CBS scored the worst of the three networks, allowing only one “skeptic” to appear for every 38 alarmists.

A steady stream of reporters and camera crews flowed through the registration and reception areas and utilized the three media suites set up for interviews. Media organizations represented at the day’s events included ABC, CBS, CNN, the BBC, The New York Times, Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, among many others.

By the end of the day, more than a few speakers were hoarse from their repeated encounters with reporters, but all were delighted that they were getting their messages out. There is no question but that the media took note of this meeting—the largest gathering of global warming skeptics ever held.

The truth was simply too big to remain hidden: There is no consensus on global warming!

By the end of the day, talk was already turning to follow-up activities to the conference. At least three books, several videos, a journal devoted to climate change, and a follow-up conference (possibly in London in early 2009) are being discussed. Parallels were being drawn between this conference and the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947—which led to the creation of an institution that played a key role in the resurrection of classical liberalism world-wide and the intellectual defeat of socialism.

“It’s difficult to imagine how this conference could have been more successful,” said Joseph Bast, president of The Heartland Institute, host of the conference. “The pure quality of speakers and presentations, and the excitement and passion of the audience, is almost overwhelming. We thought we were just bringing together some scientists and other experts to make a point; we may have ended up launching an intellectual movement.”

Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus is scheduled to speak on Tuesday morning.

Joseph L. Bast (jbast@heartland.org) is president of The Heartland Institute.

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New York Global Warming Conference
Considers ‘Manhattan Declaration’
(New York, NY / Chicago, IL — March 4, 2008) Scientists and researchers participating in the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change at the Marriott Marquis Hotel on Times Square in New York City closed business today by considering the accompanying “Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change.”

For more information contact Harriette Johnson, The Heartland Institute’s media relations manager, at 312/515-0559 (cell), email hjohnson@heartland.org.

Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change
“Global warming” is not a global crisis
We, the scientists and researchers in climate and related fields, economists, policymakers, and business leaders, assembled at Times Square, New York City, participating in the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change,

Resolving that scientific questions should be evaluated solely by the scientific method;

Affirming that global climate has always changed and always will, independent of the actions of humans, and that carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant but rather a necessity for all life;

Recognising that the causes and extent of recently observed climatic change are the subject of intense debates in the climate science community and that oft-repeated assertions of a supposed ‘consensus’ among climate experts are false;

Affirming that attempts by governments to legislate costly regulations on industry and individual citizens to encourage CO2 emission reduction will slow development while having no appreciable impact on the future trajectory of global climate change. Such policies will markedly diminish future prosperity and so reduce the ability of societies to adapt to inevitable climate change, thereby increasing, not decreasing, human suffering;

Noting that warmer weather is generally less harmful to life on Earth than colder:

Hereby declare:

That current plans to restrict anthropogenic CO2 emissions are a dangerous misallocation of intellectual capital and resources that should be dedicated to solving humanity’s real and serious problems.

That there is no convincing evidence that CO2 emissions from modern industrial activity has in the past, is now, or will in the future cause catastrophic climate change.

That attempts by governments to inflict taxes and costly regulations on industry and individual citizens with the aim of reducing emissions of CO2 will pointlessly curtail the prosperity of the West and progress of developing nations without affecting climate.

That adaptation as needed is massively more cost-effective than any attempted mitigation and that a focus on such mitigation will divert the attention and resources of governments away from addressing the real problems of their peoples.

That human-caused climate change is not a global crisis.

Now, therefore, we recommend —

That world leaders reject the views expressed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as popular, but misguided works such as “An Inconvenient Truth.”

That all taxes, regulations, and other interventions intended to reduce emissions of CO2 be abandoned forthwith.

Agreed at New York, 4 March 2008

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McCain is one of the three liberal empty headed musketeers

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.....Climate Change

Sen. McCain’s biggest regulatory effort is likely to come in the field of climate change. Along with independent Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman, who was then a Democrat, Sen. McCain introduced the earliest version of a cap-and-trade system in 2003, and the pair have refined their ideas since. Under their plan, the government sets emissions goals. Companies that can’t meet their targets must buy permits to produce carbon dioxide, either from companies that produce less CO2 than they are permitted, or from the government.

The system may require a large regulatory apparatus. In the latest McCain-Lieberman version, the government would auction off carbon-emission permits. According to Harvard economist Robert Stavins, such sales could raise $50 billion to $100 billion a year.

An Energy Department analysis says Sen. McCain’s plan raises energy prices so much that it would reduce economic growth.

“I hear this interesting argument that somehow this would cost more money to our economy,” says Sen. McCain. But, “I am absolutely convinced that innovation, technology, and using the entrepreneurship of America will come up with technologies which will save money, be a boon to our economy, and clean up our environment.” He’s unlikely to get much argument on this from his Democratic opponents; Sens. Obama and Clinton co-sponsored Sen. McCain’s legislation.....

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