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...