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...