Virtually untouched by the British media

The Manhattan Declaration

Regarded as social outcasts, learned scientists have met amidst virtually the worst winter in living memory in North America to freely discuss climate change. Trouble is, these scientists discuss it freely and after three days of what the chairman called “the kind of free-spirited debate that is virtually absent from the global warming alarmist camp”, the 500 delegates issued the Manhattan Declaration, stating that attempts by governments to reduce CO2 emissions would “markedly diminish further prosperity” while having “no appreciable impact” on the Earth’s warming.

Yet because they have not come to the conclusion that mankind is busy killing off Mother Earth, and that CO2 may not be the evil gas that the world thinks it is (indeed it’s necessary for our survival), and because they have disagreed over the concept of anthropogenic climate change, their conference in New York has barely failed to get a mention in the western press or serious journals.

The Manhattan Declaration is the document encompassing the views of the scientists and researchers, as well as economists and policy makers in New York, and because the media here in the UK (including South Shields) seem to wish to promote just one side of the debate, here is the Declaration in full. It makes sense to understand that there is a contrasting scientific viewpoint not funded by government departments with an interest in finding new ways to reap taxes.

We, the scientists and researchers in climate and related fields, economists, policymakers, and business leaders, assembled at Times Square, New York City, participating in the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change,

Resolving that scientific questions should be evaluated solely by the scientific method;

Affirming that global climate has always changed and always will, independent of the actions of humans, and that carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant but rather a necessity for all life;

Recognising that the causes and extent of recently observed climatic change are the subject of intense debates in the climate science community and that oft-repeated assertions of a supposed ‘consensus’ among climate experts are false;

Affirming that attempts by governments to legislate costly regulations on industry and individual citizens to encourage CO2 emission reduction will slow development while having no appreciable impact on the future trajectory of global climate change. Such policies will markedly diminish future prosperity and so reduce the ability of societies to adapt to inevitable climate change, thereby increasing, not decreasing, human suffering;

Noting that warmer weather is generally less harmful to life on Earth than colder:

Hereby declare:

That current plans to restrict anthropogenic CO2 emissions are a dangerous misallocation of intellectual capital and resources that should be dedicated to solving humanity’s real and serious problems.

That there is no convincing evidence that CO2 emissions from modern industrial activity has in the past, is now, or will in the future cause catastrophic climate change.

That attempts by governments to inflict taxes and costly regulations on industry and individual citizens with the aim of reducing emissions of CO2 will pointlessly curtail the prosperity of the West and progress of developing nations without affecting climate.

That adaptation as needed is massively more cost-effective than any attempted mitigation and that a focus on such mitigation will divert the attention and resources of governments away from addressing the real problems of their peoples.

That human-caused climate change is not a global crisis.

Now, therefore, we recommend –

That world leaders reject the views expressed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as popular, but misguided works such as “An Inconvenient Truth.”

That all taxes, regulations, and other interventions intended to reduce emissions of CO2 be abandoned forthwith.

Agreed at New York, 4 March 2008

The former next President of the USA Al Gore continues to fly first class around the world increasing his carbon footprint, whilst his one sided film An Inconvenient Truth conveniently lines his bank account, thus helping him to burn more electricity at his ranch than required for the average weekend at the Blackpool Illuminations!

Via EU Referendum and Devil’s Kitchen