Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change
“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” have listed their names to endorse the Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change. View the full text of the Manhattan Declaration and endorsers by visiting the International Climate Science Coalition website.
They 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.
Here’s my prediction: in a couple of years, it’ll become crystal clear that none of the alarmist predictions have come true.
So Saint Al Gore and all the alarmists will declare that all their early action had the desired result. More Nobel prizes for everyone! The planet is safe (until Y3K, of course).
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Considering that a number of people involved in promoting AGW were also strong proponents of “Nuclear Winter” (remember that one?), I suspect that, when the AGW hysteria has run its course, they will be find another “magnificent demon” for all of us to fear and rush to the government to demand our rescue from (at the cost of a few billion more taxpayer dollars). The name of the game here is the accumulation of political power and revenue to fund social engineering schemes of dubious value.