International Conference on Climate Change

The first International Conference on Climate Change was held in New York in 2008.

The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change was held in New York from 8-10 March.

This is the conference of those who question the commonly promoted rhetoric of the IPCC and various governments etc who claim man-caused CO2 is causing global warming (in other words, this was a conference of the 'skeptics').

Click here for the website for the conference. The front page provides an overview of the conference. The Conference documents are on the Heartland Institute website (one of the sponsors of the conference - click here for a long list of co-sponsors).

There were 800 people present, and 80 presenters. Australians David Evans, William Kininmonth, Bob Carter, Keston Green (Monash) were all speakers. Full speakers list.

The website includes background, news, proceedings, speakers etc.

Speakers
All the available speeches etc that were given at the conference are posted online - click here.
More will be posted...
This includes power points, videos where available and transcript of remarks... it varies from speaker to speaker.

2008 conference:
Click here for the full proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change -- including audio and video for more than 100 speakers.

Commentary on the conference
Melanie Phillips has been writing about the conference - her latest article (and a link to her first piece)

Shallow science and its victims
Melanie Phillips, The Spectator , Sunday, 15th March 2009.
"More from last week's International Conference on Climate Change in New York (which I wrote about here)-- the one that was supposed to have been attended by just a handful of cranks who don't agree that it's environmental apocalypse now:
Willie Soon, a Harvard University astrophysicist and geophysicist with scores of peer-reviewed papers and books to his credit, said he is 'embarrassed and puzzled' by the shallow science in papers that undergird the proposition that the Earth faces a climate crisis caused by global warming. Soon told the second International Conference on Climate Change here, 'We have a system (of peer reviewing scientific literature) that is truly, truly appalling. '

And in a keynote address Lord Monckton delivered this impassioned if despairing plea for reason:
Last summer, just as the President of the Royal Society, the world's oldest taxpayer-funded pressure-group, was telling us, 'Global warming is happening now,' global temperatures had already been plunging for nearly seven years, at a rate equivalent to almost 4 Fahrenheit degrees per century. Has your favourite news medium reported that? Probably not. Maybe that's why the President of the Royal Society didn't know. He doesn't get his science from the learned journals. He gets it from the media.

Just as Tony Blair was announcing on his blog that 'global warming is getting worse,' just as Al Gore was testifying before the Senate--during an ice-storm--that we face a 'climate crisis,' global temperatures plummeted still more. They have been plummeting at a rate equivalent to 11 Fahrenheit degrees per century throughout the four years since Gore launched his mawkish, sci-fi comedy horror B-movie. At this rate, by mid-century we shall roasting in a new Ice Age . . ."