Second annual gathering of "climate realists".(Inside Track)(the second International Conference on Climate Change)(Conference notes)

The second annual International Conference on Climate Change, held in New York City on March 8-12, opened with addresses by the Honorable Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, and Dr. Richard Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They were followed by other political leaders and scientists. The conference was sponsored by the Heartland Institute, and both the institute and conference participants dispute the claim that the world is faced with and must respond to a global-warming crisis.

Klaus, who currently is also president of the European Union--a rotating duty among EU country leaders--holds a Ph.D. in economics and began his political career 20 years ago with the fall of communism. Klaus believes "enviros don't want to change the climate, they want to control us." "Save the planet? From what? From whom? The answer is 'Us, from them (enviros).'"

Professor Lindzen characterized the global-warming issue as always having been "a political, not scientific argument." He added that "logic will ultimately trump authority."

Both Klaus and Professor Lindzen, often mentioned by the climate alarmists as the "last skeptics," challenged the global-warming alarmists to publicly debate the issue. It was noted that less than half of Americans now think warmer temperatures are caused by anthropogenic (human-caused) forcings, and remarkably, only 11 percent of Czech citizens believe in anthropogenic warming.

A reoccurring theme in many of the presentations was the harm the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) propaganda was doing to the world's poorest. While blessed with abundant coal resources, African countries have been discouraged from developing reliable sources of electrical power in favor of puny wind and solar generation. According to Roy Innis, this is true not only in Africa but in the United States. Chairman of ...