But wasn't Bill Clinton the American president in 1995?

[Heherson Alvarez, Philippine Presidential Adviser on Global Warming and Climate Change] In 1995 I convened the first global warming conference in Manila. At that point, an American president scorned the persistent voices of concern in the world to organize against global warming and climate change.

He said that global warming was a “hoax.” That conference in 1995, and the Manila Declaration signed by all 36 participating countries in the Asia-Pacific region, affirmed the threat of global warming and drew attention to the extreme vulnerabilities of our archipelagic and small islands nations to the early destruction with global warming—massive storms of accelerating velocity of more than 200 kph, floodings, the rising oceans and the melting of glaciers, inundating coastal communities.

That was 14 years ago but no commensurate sense of danger or self-defense has ever emerged in our political culture.

Climate scam promoted in Antarctica and South Africa

Speaking to the environment ministers over breakfast, Kim Holmen, research director for the Norwegian Polar Institute, the Troll station's operator, noted that scientists had generally thought Antarctica as a whole was not warming in recent decades. But a recent study in the journal Nature shook that view.

"This new analysis shows us actually the whole of Antarctica has been warming," Holmen said.
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During their stranded weekend in Cape Town, South Africa, 3,000 miles to the north, they spent hours behind closed doors discussing and debating the global climate negotiations, with the help of chief U.N. climate scientist Rajendra Pachauri and Britain's Lord Nicholas Stern, an expert on the economics of climate change.