Woodstock for climate realists?: International Conference on Climate Change - 2008 and 2009 information

2008: Report #1 from the Global Warming Conference in New York City - by Joseph Bast - News Releases

Climate “alarmists,” Bast said, had already lost the scientific debate. “Winners don’t exaggerate. Winners don’t lie. Winners don’t appeal to fear or resort to ad hominem attacks,” Bast said. “As George Will recently wrote, ‘people only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues.’”

Report #2 from the Global Warming Conference in New York City - by Joseph L. Bast - News Releases

A steady stream of reporters and camera crews flowed through the registration and reception areas and utilized the three media suites set up for interviews. Media organizations represented at the day's events included ABC, CBS, CNN, the BBC, The New York Times, Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, among many others.

By the end of the day, more than a few speakers were hoarse from their repeated encounters with reporters, but all were delighted that they were getting their messages out. There is no question but that the media took note of this meeting--the largest gathering of global warming skeptics ever held.

Report #3 from the Global Warming Conference in New York City - by Joseph L. Bast - News Releases

The final day of the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, hosted by The Heartland Institute and more than 50 cosponsors, began with a keynote presentation by the Hon. Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, who received a thunderous standing ovation from an international audience of some 500 scientists, economists, and other experts on global warming. It ended with withering criticism of the mainstream media's biased and alarmist coverage of the global warming issue by ABC News correspondent John Stossel.

The Heartland Institute - Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change

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The Heartland Institute - Welcome to the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change

More than 70 of the world’s elite scientists specializing in climate issues will confront the subject of global warming at the second annual International Conference on Climate Change in New York City March 8-10, 2009.