More than 200 climate and environmental scientists from Australia, Canada, England, Poland, France, Hungary, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden and the United States attended the three-day conference in New York. They were joined by environmental authorities from Harvard, The Institute Pasteur in Paris, Johns Hopkins, the Universities of Virginia, Alabama, Arizona State and many other fine universities.

They came to discuss the other side of the global warming issue – its causes, and priority as sensitive issue. They discussed the reliability of computer models in future climate conditions; how much modern warming is natural and how much is the result of human activity; and how reliable are the data used to document the recent warming trend.

“The alarmists in the global warming debate have had their say over and over again in every newspaper in the country every day,” said conference host Joseph Bast of the Heartland Institute. “They’ve been seen in countless news reports and documentary films. They have totally dominated the media’s coverage of this issue. They have swayed the view of many people, and many of them have gotten very rich in the process.”

Bast pointed out many scientists appeared, despite the potential loss of research grants, tenure, and the ability to get published in the future. Many even dared to speak out vehemently against what they consider “the mass delusion of our time.”

“We are not in this for money,” he continued. “The scientists with us today have been published thousands of times in the world’s leading scientific journals. They deserve to be heard.”