May 25, 2009: Keynote Address By José Manuel Barroso to the World Business Summit on Climate Change

That we are now entering a new period of climate change, there can be no reasonable doubt. However, this is not – as many of the climate sceptics tell us – simply just another one of the many periods of global warming that the Earth has experienced in its 4 and a half billion year existence. All serious scientists agree that this time, it is being caused by Man, and it poses unprecedented risks to both human life and even to human civilisation itself.

With the scientific knowledge at our disposal on both the magnitude of the problem and its potential consequences, I think we can say that combating this self-inflicted climate change is fast becoming the defining challenge of our generation. We know that decisive and urgent action is needed. And I am proud that the European Union is leading global efforts to mitigate its effects.

Global Warming Conference: The Science of Climate Change » The Foundry

The first panel at the Heartland Institute today brings together four of the world’s best scientists when it comes to climate change study...

The United Nation’s War on Science » The Foundry

University of Colorado professor Roger Pielke comments:

Why can’t the work produced by the GHF be “as rigorous as a scientific study”? Well, one answer is that scientific studies on this topic simply don’t give the desired answers.