I know that there is no where in the MSM you saw this, so the good people at American Thinker gave a rundown on what went down. Yes, there was a conference with those evil "Manbearpig Skeptics". There was a bunch of evil people that get money from ecil oil companies and people that want you to drink pollution and breathe in pollution. Oh no, it was just a bunch of scientists, economists and policy wonks that have not drunk the cool-aid from the New Church of Manbearpig.
Cross posted at Grizzly Groundswell
NY Climate Conference: Journey to the Center of Warming Sanity
If you rely solely on the
mainstream media to keep informed, you may not have heard that the 2008
International Conference on Climate Change concluded in New York City
on Tuesday. And if you have heard anything — this being primarily a
forum of skeptics — it was likely of a last gasp effort by
"flat-Earthers" sponsored by right-wingers in the pockets of big-oil to
breathe life into their dying warming denial agenda. Well, having just
returned from the 3 day event, I’m happy to report that the struggle
against the ravages of warming alarmism is not only alive, but
healthier than ever.Granting
a long overdue forum to noted dissenting scientists, economists and
policy experts from around the world, the Heartland Institute-sponsored
symposium at the Marriott Marquis offered welcomed reasoned analysis as
alternative to last December’s hysterical circus which was Bali. It also served as the perfect launch point for a long-awaited un-IPCC report — Nature,
Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate: Summary for Policymakers of the
Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change [PDF].
Compiling
the work of over 20 prominent fellow researchers, editor Fred Singer’s
NIPCC report distinguishes itself from the recent IPCC Fourth
Assessment (AR4) and its predecessors in that it was not
pre-programmed to "support the hypotheses of anthropogenic warming
(AGW) and the control of greenhouse gases." Instead, the nearly 50
page document is a non-political authoritative rebuttal to the
multi-government controlled IPCC’s "errors and outright falsehoods"
regarding warming’s measurement, likely drivers, and overall impact.
And
its ultimate conclusion of "natural causes and a moderate warming
trend with beneficial effects for humanity and wildlife" set the
perfect framework for speakers and panelists – many of whom contributed
to the NIPCC — to elaborate on the summit’s "Global warming is not a
crisis" theme. —American Thinker
