The conference, sponsored by The Heartland Institute of Chicago, has nearly 50 co-sponsoring organizations from all over the world.

The conference will feature internationally recognised speakers from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Europe. Carbon Sense has registered 10 delegates from Australia and New Zealand, and several other individual delegates and scientists from Australia and New Zealand will attend.

For more information on the conference see: http://www.heartland.org/NewYork08/newyork08.cfm  

The conference will take place on March 2-4 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel on Times Square in New York City. Hundreds of scientists, scholars, and policy analysts are expected to attend the event to discuss the latest scientific evidence challenging the unproven notion that human activity is the cause of global warming.

Conference organizer James M. Taylor, a senior fellow of The Heartland Institute and managing editor of its monthly publication, Environment & Climate News, is preparing a two-day program with five tracks of concurrent sessions covering the science, economics, and politics of climate change. The cosponsoring organizations will recruit speakers and guests and promote the event.

"The global warming debate that the public and policymakers usually see is one-sided," noted Taylor, "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," Taylor continued, "but in recent years it has been denied a platform from which to speak." The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change will provide that platform, he said.  Read rest...

The conference will take place on March 2-4 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel on Times Square in New York City. Hundreds of scientists, scholars, and policy analysts are expected to attend the event to discuss the latest scientific evidence challenging the unproven notion that human activity is the cause of global warming.

"Quite simply," said Heartland Senior Fellow James Taylor, principal organizer of the conference, "the debate is not settled. There is no consensus."

Taylor is preparing a two-day program with five tracks of concurrent sessions covering every aspect of the science, economics, and politics of climate change. the cosponsoring organizations have committed to recruiting speakers and guests and promoting the event.

"'The end of the world' is still the best front-page banner headline ever concocted to sell newspapers," said Jay Lehr, Ph.D., science director of The Heartland Institute. "Global climate models now substitute for gospels, stories about what might happen if we continue to sin, or go forth and sin no more.

"But these models, when run on actual climate data from the past, do not validate the past, and when fed accurate information they do not in fact predict a climate Armageddon," Lehr noted.  Read rest...