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Climate: what they don't want you to hear

Wednesday, 26th March 2008

When a group of scientists met ealier this month in New York to discuss climate change, their conclusions pointed to 'an inconvenient truth' that demolishes the current dangerous othodoxy on global warming. Their declaration challenging what our leaders feed to us was barely covered in the media. Stuart Gulleford reports

IN EARLY March, 500 scientists and researchers came together in Times Square, New York for the International Conference on Climate Change 2008, under the auspices of the International Climate Science Coalition.  At the end of the conference the delegates agreed a statement which they entitled The Manhattan Declaration.  The declaration offers a wholly different view of the climate change debate and calls for, among other things, major changes in policy by the UN and world leaders.  A copy of the declaration appears below.

The views expressed by the delegates are both refreshing and challenging.  Unfortunately, the most depressing feature of the story is the way the media in Britain completely ignored the conference.  The BBC, with its highly regrettable and gross bias on this issue didn’t even bother to put anything on its website about the conference, as you will see if you do a search for the Manhattan Declaration. In contrast, if you search for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the organisation that propounds the grinding orthodoxy to which the BBC is firmly and uncritically wedded, you will find a great deal of material both in written and in video clip form.

A news search shows that the conference fared a little better in US and Canadian publications.  The only British publication that appears to have written anything about it is the Spectator, which produced some fascinating material from the conference on how difficult it is for scientists who produce research papers that challenge the climate change consensus, to get them published.  There is also an interesting comment from a scientist who believes that many of his colleagues who wanted to attend the conference, did not do so in order to protect their jobs.

It is quite clear that scientific objectivity on this issue goes straight out of the window under the twin pressures of vocational ostracism and potential loss of funding, if an opinion or informed research is offered that does not conform.

The 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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