European President denounces global warming hysteria

NEW YORK CITY - Speakers at a conference on climate change have made the case that the alarmism behind the global-warming bandwagon is politically motivated and cannot be confirmed by science.

The second annual International Conference on Climate Change hosted by The Heartland Institute was held in New York City march 8-10, 2009. More than 700 registrants gathered to hear more than 70 scientists, representing the views of tens of thousands of their colleagues, that environmental advocacy groups and politicians have hyped the issue unfairly into a crisis.

One of the headline speakers to open the event was European Union and Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus, who said that those who propagate global-warming hysteria are not willing to listen to opposing views. "They [consider] you a naïve, uninformed and confused person..."

Klaus believes that politicians who propagate global warming hysteria only have one goal in mind: control of the public. "It is evident that the environmentalists don't want to change the climate," he said. "They want to change our behavior...to control and manipulate us."

And he warns that those same politicians wish to engage in energy rationing -- all because of a problem that he believes does not exist.

Other speakers:

Dr. Richard Lindzen, who has been Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT for over 25 years, said global warming hysteria is more about a political agenda and has nothing to do with science. "I think [there is] one point you should notice as one discusses the science, and that is that global warming alarm -- as far as I can tell -- has always been a political movement, a highly organized one," Lindzen observed. The MIT professor, one of the world's most respected atmospheric physicists, said that many of his good friends and colleagues have subscribed to global warming alarmism because they either fear for their jobs or see it as a way to get funding for scientific projects. Lindzen contends that climate models are being fed erroneous information in order to get the results that global-warming alarmists want.

Dr. Michael Coffman is the CEO of Sovereignty International, a U.N. watchdog organization. After leading a multimillion-dollar research effort on global warming, he found that "the data that was being collected just didn't support the hypothesis that man was causing global warming." He concludes that "any amount of money that we spend on it is not going to change any temperatures whatsoever." Proposed legislation will "cause every American family to spend at least two- to five-thousand dollars more a year...to try to support this effort to curb carbon-dioxide emissions." Coffman warns that politicians are moving towards having an international tribunal established which will regulate carbon emissions. "Which means basically since carbon dioxide is involved in all elements of business in the United States, ...whoever does this controls the economy of the United States, and therefore our sovereignty."

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