FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 9, 2010

CONTACT: Christina Wilson in Bonn +49 1578-7500824

cwilson@cfactcampus.org

Neither a climate treaty, nor agreement warranted

Flawed process must begin anew

Renewables fail to produce plentiful affordable power :

They are totems of our times

Bonn – The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) will sponsor a press briefing Thursday, 10 June, at 10:30 local time in room Hayden at Bonn’s Hotel Maritim to discuss the general state of climate change policy and the future of renewable energy.

“The global warming argument is in tatters,” said Craig Rucker, CFACT’s Executive Director. “Climategate and revelations about alarmism drummed up over Himalayan glaciers exemplify errors that have opened minds around the world. This, coupled with the public’s clear disaffection for the endless warming propaganda they’ve been bombarded with by the media, have emboldened experts to join the debate. They no longer feel intimidated. We are only now having the genuine evaluation of global warming we should have had at the beginning.”

Neither a climate treaty, nor binding agreement are currently warranted. CFACT calls attention to the multi-faceted aspects of global warming proposals that are clearly not yet ready for prime time.

Serious questions are only now being genuinely considered as to:

• The degree to which the planet may be warming and is expected to warm

• Whether observed warming is caused by the green house effect or myriad other factors

• Whether recent warming is mainly anthropogenic or natural in origin

• Whether the impacts of warming will be dire, inconsequential or maybe beneficial

• Whether proposals to forestall potential warming would be effective and worth their cost

• Whether to proceed with policies to either mitigate or adapt to climate change

• Whether the process to consider these weighty issues has been open, honest and trustworthy

“We’d best hope that warming is only a scare,” Rucker said, “as proposals to combat it are loaded with bureaucracy, accounting, wealth transfers, profiteering and political window dressing. If catastrophic warming were real and as dire as the propagandists say, and we trusted our fate to the proposals we’re seeing in Bonn, we’d all be cooked. Carbon trading, subsidies and wealth transfers won’t alter the climate in any meaningful way even if we believe the climate models are correct which fortunately we do not. They clearly are all pain no gain.”

CFACT is calling attention to the state of renewable energy which today makes huge profits for its developers, but little meaningful energy. The Committee hopes the day will come when renewables can stand on their own and produce real power. Sadly they have become the totems of our times – sculptures we erect to feel good about ourselves. Energy inequality is an immediate tragedy and it will take nuclear and yes, fossil fuels, to lift developing peoples out of poverty. People are dying today for lack or necessities we take for granted – refrigeration, modern medicine, adequate nutrition and education. CFACT believes we must resolve to ensure adequate and affordable energy to every person on earth. Renewables may soothe western anxieties, but they are not currently able to meet the needs of humanity in a truly meaningful way.

Lord Christopher Monckton, who has been criss-crossing the globe lecturing on climate and energy policy and is possibly the world’s best known climate skeptic will lead this briefing.

To schedule an interview with CFACT or Lord Monckton

contact Christina Wilson at +49 1578-7500824

This briefing is scheduled to be webcast live by the UNFCCC and then available on demand

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CFACT is once again in Bonn, Germany at the UN climate conference.  We’re focusing our attention on energy policy, asking the UN to rethink whether solar and wind power have what it takes to meet the world’s needs.   Will future generations wonder why we built them?  Find out along with the UN delegates by clicking here.

Click to view CFACT on KSTP TV Minneapolis (ABC)

at the 4th International Conference on Climate Change.

How did we let the big government crowd make our environment their ruse de guerre? This Earth Day we call on all people of good sense to retake our environment.

Earth Day is here again.  I’m sure we can expect the same old green blarney that sets your teeth on edge.  Yet, it would be a shame if we let tired propaganda distract us from some essential truths.  We share a passion for America.  Conservation is a natural for conservatives.   Preserving the beauty of our land is a duty for those of us who love liberty.  Passing our country and our planet down to our children, as good or better than we found it is hardwired into our bones.  How did we let this sacred obligation be co-opted?  How did we let the big government crowd make our environment their ruse de guerre?

Head outside (as we expect you already plan to do).  Take to our mountains, forests, rivers, streams and lakes.  Set sail on our oceans.  You’ll find more than your fair share of people who share your values, reveling with their families in America’s beauty.

In recent years Americans and their allies in the free, developed world have enjoyed significant environmental progress.  Our lands are cleaner and greener than they were not long ago.  Government deserves part of the credit for our cleaner circumstances for addressing the economic problems of “externality” (transferring production burdens such as pollution to society as a whole) and “the tragedy of the commons” (depleting shared resources).  Still more credit is due to the prosperity created through our free market system.  Reliable power grids and energy supplies eliminated the need for large-scale dependence on firewood leading to verdant swaths of mature trees all around, populating areas that not long ago were completely bare.  The incredible bounty derived from modern agriculture ensures enough food for all, requires less acreage, returns large areas to a wild state and makes hunting a matter of sport, rather than subsistence, permitting a tremendous rebound of wild species.

American conservation and environmentalism gave birth to our state and national parks and gave us the tools to clean up our rivers, air and reign in the litter that once lay all about us.  We have much to celebrate.

Sadly, many once constructive environmental organizations later succumbed to radicalism.  Joined by newcomers that were founded with radical expansion of government control over our economy and lives as their aim, they lost the guiding recognition that mankind is part of nature too.  Robert Heinlein observed that, “in declaring his love for a beaver dam (erected by beavers for beavers’ purposes) and his hatred for dams erected by men (for the purposes of men) the Naturist reveals his hatred for his own race — i.e., his own self-hatred.”

Today many environmental campaign organizations represent a dire threat to the basic freedoms and liberties that the United States was founded to secure.  Ironically, they now pose an equally dire threat to the natural environments and human well-being the protection of which should be their aim.  Their blinkered opposition to free market capitalism threatens to choke off the source of the prosperity that permits us to effectively steward our environment.  They thwart us from developing our domestic energy resources and leave us dependent on foreign nations that bear us no affection.  They dogmatically block the use of nuclear power despite its excellent safety record, low cost and inherently clean impact.  They advocate feel-good projects such as erecting giant wind turbines in unspoiled areas in a vain attempt to reign in CO2 emissions that were never a pollutant to begin with.  That the wind turbines produce subsidies for their developers, but no meaningful power for our communities is a fact they choose not to grasp.

For nearly twenty-five years CFACT has debunked the false claims made in the name of our environment and exposed the hidden agendas behind them.  We have been a patient and consistent advocate for real conservation and genuine stewardship of the earth.  We have taken the side of developing peoples against those who would trap them in poverty.

This Earth Day we call on all people of good sense to retake our environment.  We urge you to join us as guardians of the freedom, dignity and prosperity of all people.   The future of humanity and the natural environment of which we are part, depend on it.

David Rothbard serves as President of CFACT and Craig Rucker as Executive Director of CFACT.

Delegates to the UN climate talks in Bonn entered their plenary session today holding indulgences absolving them of their carbon sins.  Gaia the earth goddess, wearing her trademark green frock and crown of leaves welcomed the delegates and bestowed her indulgences.

“Where are you from,” Gaia asked, “Indonesia?  How did you arrive at the conference today?”  “We flew in a plane,” the Indonesian delegate replied.  “That plane emitted carbon,” Gaia explained, “you didn’t breathe on board did you?  More carbon!”

After learning that most of the delegates had indeed arrived by plane, Gaia asked, “Have you been washing your clothes in a machine, or do you take them down to the river to wash by hand?  Do you watch television?  Use a computer?  You don’t refrigerate your food do you?  Did you bring the food home in a car?  All carbon sins!  You’re lucky I’m selling carbon indulgences today and I’ve brought free samples for all delegates.”

The world’s great religions long ago ended the practice of offering absolution in exchange for cash.  In the global warming age, however, large emitters of carbon, such as former Vice President Al Gore (whose 20 room eight bathroom mansion in Nashville consumes as much power as twenty average Americans) claim to use “offsets.”  Gore and the global warming elite have advocated purchasing carbon offsets which allow them to continue their rich lifestyles guilt free.  They are also willing to sell these offsets to the rest of us.

Gaia’s indulgences printed by CFACT, The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, state, “This indulgence serves as a remittance for all your carbon sins.  You are hereby forgiven for: flying where you choose, machine washed clothes, driving your vehicle, your computer and electronic conveniences, taking hot showers, exhaling carbon dioxide, making things in factories, growing food with tractors, eating meat, watching your favorite TV shows, refrigerated food, Edison’s light bulb, air conditioning and heating and attending international conferences.”

The disclaimer states, “Purchase of this indulgence absolves you from your guilt from living in a free, productive society.  This indulgence will not meaningfully alter the weather, nor climate and is therefore the most honest carbon trading strategy you can find.”

The indulgence is signed, Mother Earth, goddess du jour.

Gaia has offered the rest of us a chance to download her carbon indulgences.

Download the pdf of the indulgence here.

Carbon “sins” forgiven in Bonn

CFACT’s Mother Earth Sells Carbon Indulgences to UN Climate Delegates

Bonn, Germany – Delegates to the UN climate talks in Bonn entered their plenary session today holding indulgences absolving them of their carbon sins.  Gaia the earth goddess, wearing her trademark green frock and crown of leaves welcomed the delegates and bestowed her indulgences.

“Where are you from,” Gaia asked, “Indonesia?  How did you arrive at the conference today?”  “We flew in a plane,” the Indonesian delegate replied.  “That plane emitted carbon,” Gaia explained, “you didn’t breathe on board did you?  More carbon!”

After learning that most of the delegates had indeed arrived by plane, Gaia asked, “Have you been washing your clothes in a machine, or do you take them down to the river to wash by hand?  Do you watch television?  Use a computer?  You don’t refrigerate your food do you?  Did you bring the food home in a car?  All carbon sins!  You’re lucky I’m selling carbon indulgences today and I’ve brought free samples for all delegates.”

The world’s great religions long ago ended the practice of offering absolution in exchange for cash.  In the global warming age, however, large emitters of carbon, such as former Vice President Al Gore (whose 20 room eight bathroom mansion in Nashville consumers as much power as twenty average Americans) claim to use “offsets.”  Gore and the global warming elite have advocated purchasing carbon offsets which allow them to continue their rich lifestyles guilt free.  They are also willing to sell these offsets to the rest of us.

Gaia’s indulgences printed by CFACT, The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, state, “This indulgence serves as a remittance for all your carbon sins.  You are hereby forgiven for: flying where you choose, machine washed clothes, driving your vehicle, your computer and electronic conveniences, taking hot showers, exhaling carbon dioxide, making things in factories, growing food with tractors, eating meat, watching your favorite TV shows, refrigerated food, Edison’s light bulb, air conditioning and heating and attending international conferences.”

The disclaimer states, “Purchase of this indulgence absolves you from your guilt from living in a free, productive society.  This indulgence will not meaningfully alter the weather, nor climate and is therefore the most honest carbon trading strategy you can find.”

The indulgence is signed, Mother Earth, goddess du jour.

Gaia has offered the rest of us a chance to download her carbon indulgences by clicking HERE.

ROTHBARD & RUCKER: Global warming’s weak links

Illustration: The world in chains by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times.

Delegates from around the world gather in Bonn this weekend to chart the future of a new global-

warming treaty they hope to sign in Mexico this fall or in South Africa in 2011 at the latest. This treaty would lock our nation into massive new taxation, regulation, subsidies and redistribution; take unprecedented control of our economy; and radically alter our way of life. Laws and regulations that increase the power of government are seldom repealed. Treaties are tougher still. The costs and burdens of the treaty these delegates hope to sign are so extraordinary, they cannot be justified unless every link in the chain of logic supporting the treaty is beyond reproach.

A chain, we all know, is only as strong as its weakest link. We must have extraordinary confidence in the integrity of every link before we trust it. Has the process been sound? Has the globe warmed? Are we humans to blame? Will any warming continue? Would the impacts be terrible? Would the proposed solutions do any meaningful good? Will the benefits exceed the costs? Let any link in this chain of questions fail, and the treaty cannot be justified. It would be all pain, no gain and should be scrapped.

The public's trust in the supposed scientific consensus took a blow when a vast body of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia came to light in what has been dubbed "Climategate." Climate scientists derided their critics, blocked access to peer-reviewed literature, withheld data from examination, planned to "hide the decline" in past temperatures and generally revealed themselves to be shaping their science to their politics rather than the other way around. Anyone who tells you climate science is settled is selling something. The climate is a vastly complicated system. The science that studies it is prone to error and was politicized before it could mature.

The treaty's advocates have long been challenging our credulity as they continually have made assertions people can judge for themselves to be false. You can't hold up every unseasonably hot day as evidence of global warming, dismiss every cold and calm day and hold the confidence of people educated enough to attribute both to natural variability. The treaty advocates hyped extreme tales of drowning bears, famine, plague, pestilence and flood. They flattened past warm and cool periods to make the trend look like a hockey stick. Is it surprising if people aren't buying? You can't demonize, ridicule and ignore opponents without begging the question: Why? Experts confident in their conclusions neither suppress, nor exaggerate.

Has the globe warmed? Most think that since the late 19th century, there has been some warming. The issue becomes muddled when you consider such factors as the reliability of the data sets, the selective use of the proxy data used to estimate historic temperatures and the way urbanization warms local weather stations.

Climate changed continually long before man's activities could have been a factor. It appears likely that man's contribution has been exaggerated and natural variability downplayed. The portion of carbon dioxide we can attribute to man is dwarfed by that which is produced from nature. There have been studies that have show that in the past, temperatures moved first and carbon dioxide followed. Which is the cause and which the effect remains unknown. Because carbon dioxide increased periodically in past millenniums, can we reliably conclude that any of the current increase has come from today's smokestacks and sport utility vehicles?

We had best hope the climate prophets have cried false, as the solutions being put forth in Bonn benefit narrow interests, with no gain for climate. Alternative energy sounds nice but in practice does more to generate fortunes from subsidies than it does meaningful power. Would-be carbon traders hope to reap huge bonuses from mandated markets the climate will never notice. Biofuels profit agribusiness, yet reduce natural habitats, make food scarce and offer little carbon change. Nations with stagnant economies seek handouts, while their citizens really need free elections, free markets and the rule of law.

President Obama recently demonstrated his willingness to ignore public opinion and force a health care bill through Congress while his party's majorities are still strong. It would be a mistake to do this on climate. The process must be reformed, public confidence restored and every link in our climate chain proved beyond reproach before we should agree to a climate treaty.

David Rothbard and Craig Rucker serve respectively as president and executive director of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow.

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Free Sample Carbon Credits at Bonn Climate Conference:

Briefing from CFACT Advisor Lord Christopher Monckton

Bonn, Germany – Delegates to the UN Climate Conference were smiling as they entered the plenary session today holding in their hands “100 International Carbon Credits.” The certificates bear a portrait of Nobel Prize Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore beside a portrait of the earth on fire.

The credit states, “The bearer is entitled to enjoy guilt free: Eco-tourism, McMansions, private jets, world travel, fleets of cars, hot showers, machine-washed clothing, big-screen TVs and all the amenities you’ve come to love.”    What got them laughing, however, was the disclaimer which reads, “CFACT’s carbon credits will not affect the weather, nor climate in any meaningful way, but then, neither will anyone else’s.”

As he presented delegates with their sample climate credits Lord Monckton said, “I’m encouraged at how receptive the delegates have been.  Minds are opening at last and discussions that should have taken place years ago are finally getting started.  The delegates get the joke.  Everyone knows deep down that carbon credits and offsets will have no effect on our climate.  Their only benefits are to would-be carbon traders and profiteers who expect the taxpayers of the world to provide them with rich pickings.  After they collect their bonuses the carbon traders can offset their mega yachts by buying their own carbon credits and offsets.”

An image of CFACT’s International Carbon Credits are available for download at www.CFACT.TV.

People are invited to repost them, print them out, distribute them and counter hypocrisy through fun.

Lord Monckton will join scientists and experts for a briefing and discussion at the Ministry of the Environment at the venue named “Wind” Friday April 9, 2010 at 19:45.  Delegates, press and anyone registered for the Bonn climate conference are invited to attend.

Minds are opening…

The game has changed…

The science is not settled.

Download the pdf of the document here.

Paul Driessen, policy analyst for CFACT, speaks on a global warming panel alongside Lord Christopher Monckton, Congressman Sensenbrenner, State Assemblyman and former meteorologist Jim Ott, and Niger Innis from CORE. CFACT caught up with Paul afterwards to ask him a few more questions.

Lord Christopher Monckton issues a warning to America that the UN will try again to pass their treaty in Bonn, Germany.

Prof. Fred Singer presents the Report “Nature, not Human Activity, Rules the Climate” by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change’(NIPCC) at CFACT’s International Climate Eco-Summit (I.C.E.) at the Center for Political Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark. December 11, 2009. The whole talk lasts for 45 minutes

UN policies will hurt the developing world.  CFACT spoke up for the developing world in Copenhagen at the COP 15 Conference. Barun Mitra, Manuel de Araujo, and David Rothbard voice their thoughts on the climate change treaty in this video.

(Copenhagen, Denmark, December 16, 2009) Global warming skeptics from CFACT yesterday pulled off an international climate caper using GPS triangulation from Greenpeace’s own on-board camera photos to locate and sail up long-side of the infamous Greenpeace vessel, Rainbow Warrior. Then in Greenpeace-like fashion, the CFACT activists unfurled a banner reading “Propaganda Warrior” which underscored how the radical green group’s policies and agenda are based on myths, lies, and exaggerations.

Earlier in the day the activists daringly boarded Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise with neither stealth nor force, but by baffling the crew with doughnuts, and unfurled a banner that read “Ship of Lies” off the starboard side.

“Greenpeace has been using these kinds of tactics for decades, and now they can find out what it’s like to have a little taste of their own medicine, “ said CFACT executive director Craig Rucker who masterminded the operation.

CFACT unfurled the banners for two reasons, CFACT president David Rothbard explained. “Greenpeace ships, like the Rainbow Warrior and Arctic Sunrise, have become global symbols for radical environmentalism, and we wanted to call attention to the harm these groups are causing.  And second, it seemed appropriate to use one of Greenpeace’s favorite tactics to make this point.”

Greenpeace protesters frequently hang banners from factories and office buildings, paint slogans on smokestacks, and employ other publicity stunts. Some are relatively harmless, but others reflect a willingness to lie or even destroy property to make a point.

In 1995, Greenpeace launched a $2-million public relations campaign against Shell Oil, claiming the company was planning to dump tons of oil and toxic waste in the ocean by sinking its Brent Spar platform as an artificial reef. It was a full year before the group issued a written apology, admitting it knew all along that there had been no oil or chemical wastes on the platform.

Greenpeace has frequently destroyed bio-engineered crops, wiping out millions of dollars in research efforts designed to develop food plants that are more nutritious, withstand floods and droughts better, and resist insect infestations without the need for chemical pesticides. It has also waged an unrelenting campaign against insecticides and insect repellants that could prevent malaria, a vicious disease that infects 500 million people a year, kills over 1 million and leaves millions more with permanent brain damage.

“Greenpeace employs the same deceitful tactics in opposition to nuclear, hydroelectric and hydrocarbon energy, even though 1.5 billion people still do not have electricity – and thus don’t have lights for homes, hospitals and schools, or power to purify water and run offices, shops and factories,” Rucker says.

Rothbard acknowledged Greenpeace was launched for the best of reasons.  “But it radicalized its mission. The more power it acquired, the more it abused that power,” he said. “Some of Greenpeace’s original cadre has left, feeling they can no longer associate themselves with its current agenda.”

Greenpeace claims that human carbon dioxide emissions are causing “dangerous global climate change.” Hundreds of climate scientists and thousands of other scientists disagree with that assertion, as frequently noted by Lord Christopher Monckton, former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and a CFACT advisor.

“The continuing scandal over falsified and destroyed temperature data, manipulated climate models, and a perverted scientific and peer review process further demonstrates that there is no valid basis for this anti-energy, wealth-redistribution, global governance Copenhagen treaty,” said Rucker.

Anti-energy policies represent a “clear and present danger to the health and welfare of billions,” he added.  Mandates for wind and solar would send energy prices skyrocketing, sharply constrict economic opportunities and destroy jobs.

“People in developing countries simply want to improve their living standards, and give their children a chance to live past age five,” Rothbard said. “Greenpeace is diametrically opposed to giving them access to the modern technologies that would help them do that.”

Greenpeace is one of the “most unethical and irresponsible corporations on Earth,” said Christina Wilson, a recent graduate from the University of Minnesota-Duluth. “It’s time to expose it for what it is, and help promote real environmental justice. So I was really excited to participate in this human rights effort.”

“The ‘Ship of Lies’ and ‘Propaganda Warrior’ banners are part of CFACT’s long-term effort to bring sense and balance back to the environmental debate,” said Rothbard.

Leading climate experts challenge the UN to provide sound evidence for their catastrophic forecasts.

Tom Harris, Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition, presents the Climate Challenge at the Climate Sense Conference in Copenhagen.

Lord Christopher Monckton addresses the issues of poverty and starvation inflicted by biofuels on developing countries, international injustice in climate treaties, and the alleged rise in sea levels.

Save the Planet, Scrap Capitalism!
-Reds Turn Green in Copenhagen

CFACT exclusive, shocking video and interviews of prominent socialist and communist participation in “People’s Rally” for climate action at Copenhagen Summit

Exclusive video taken by CFACT shows masses of communists and socialists rallying in Copenhagen during the UN climate summit demanding that the world abandon capitalism and embrace socialism to stop global warming.

“It was truly shocking to arrive at a climate action rally in Copenhagen and literally see a sea of red flags and banners with hammers and sickles,” says CFACT President David Rothbard. “I don’t believe most environmentalists are secretly communists, but it interesting to see that many communists believe the green agenda is the best path toward socialist policies.”

Some marchers wore hats saying, “Save the Planet. Scrap Capitalism.” One marcher said, “We fight for a socialist society and a socialist program for the climate. I believe in international solidarity in socialism. That’s the way forward.”

All Pain No Gain! Sign our petition.

David Rothbard, CFACT president, comments on “climate activists” at their own rally in Copenhagen. If you too fear  the consequences of Copenhagen, sign our petition!

Carefully edited for your viewing pleasure, we bring you this video of Lord Christopher Monckton as he singlehandedly gets whole bunch of Greenpeace activists to admit the obvious . His tactic is an overwhelming amount of facts combined with the scientific method.

And if you, like Christopher Monckton, are convinced the Cap and Trade regime is based on lousy science please sign our petition, All Pain No Gain, to prevent it from happening.

Lord Christopher Monckton urges you to sign the All Pain No Gain petition and support the Committee for a Constructive Tommorrow.

See Congressman Steve Stockman at Climate Sense in Copenhagen.

Craig Rucker, Director of CFACT and Professor Niklas Nils-Axel Mörner, expert on world sea levels representing the voice of dissent against man-made climate change hysteria, spoke to Reuters at their own conference near the Bella Center, where the UN conference is currently taking place.

See the story and video clips on the Reuters website.

A journalist from the “Guardian”, a UK newspaper, debates Professor Niklas Nils-Axel Morner, an expert on sea level from Stockholm University. This journalist shows his bias when he starts to argue, instead of asking a question. Nils-Axel Morner was so incensed by this that he jumped up to defend himself and his research against this scientifically unfounded attack. Sign the petition at www.allpainnogain.org.

Climategate emails were released by a whistle blower, not a hacker according to analysis by CFACT Advisor Lord Christopher Monckton. Sign the petition at www.allpainnogain.org

Sign the petition! http://www.allpainnogain.org

Lord Christopher Monckton talks to a protester at the second International Climate Conference in Berlin co-sponsored by CFACT and several European think tanks.

CFACT Executive Director Craig Rucker interviews Greenpeace activists who protest at the second International Climate Conference in Berlin co-sponsored by CFACT and several European think tanks

Sign our petition: http://www.allpainnogain.org.

Below are two links to raw audio from Climate Sense Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.  The conference was co-sponsored by CFACT.

Nils Axelmorner_Audio_Copenhagen.wav can be accessed at https://cfact.egnyte.com/h-s/20091208/e3a2e2bd84dd4445

Rucker_Audio_from_Copenhagen_Climate_Sense.wav can be accessed at https://cfact.egnyte.com/h-s/20091208/ed3163c9c0de425a

Lord Christopher Monckton speaks at the second International Climate Conference, addressing the so called Climategate scandal and key players involved in what appears to be one of the biggest science scams of our time.

Tuesday, December 8th-Wedensday, December 9th

Climate Sense Conference
Dansk Forfatterforening, Strandgade 6, 1401 København K

Tuesday, December 8th

Fred Singer debates Rasmus Benestad at Tenkeloftet in Oslo, Norway
Tostrup Konferansesenter, Karl Johans gate 25, Lange –salen, 6. etasje

Friday, December 11th

CFACT Collegians Seminar for students, speakers include Lord Monckton, Fred Singer, Marc Morano. Screening of Not Evil Just Wrong. This will include an opportunity to schedule interview time with our delegation members.
CEPOS HQ, Landgreven 3, 3. sal, 1301 København K

Saturday, December 12

Street meeting unweiling and tagging the Climate Wall. Speakers include Barun Mitra, Manuel De Araujo, and Lord Moncton
We will “join” the big NGO rally after the street meeting is concluded.
TBA

Sunday, December 13

Optional seminar on U.S. Politics for students participating in the CFACT Collegians seminar.
Danhostel Ishøj

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In a debate on live television, Professor Watson of the University of East Anglia, home of Climategate, calls Marc Morano an a**hole. Morano is the Executive Editor and Chief Correspondent of Climate Depot, a project of CFACT.

MEDIA RELEASE: BERLIN CLIMATE CHANGE BRIEFING

WHERE: Hotel Melia Berlin, Friedrichstraße 103, 10117 Berlin, Germany

WHEN: Friday, December 4, 13:00-21:00

WHO: Dr. Fred Singer, Lord Christopher Monckton, Dr. Horst-Joachim Luedecke, Dr. Patzelt, Dr. Lubos Motl, and Dr. Andrej Illarionov,

WHAT: Climate Gate, NIPCC Report, Copenhagen Climate Summit

Greenpeace has already stated they will protest this event.

The IPCC relies heavily on data produced by academic fraud found at University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU). CRU’s lead investigator Phil Jones has already stepped down, but many governments has already imposed strict energy rationing measures based on his malfeasance.

“I shall now be reporting Phil Jones to the police for a financial and scientific fraud so enormous that, if it had succeeded, billions of people would have had to bear the cost via the Copenhagen Treaty, which we now know to be a non-solution to a non-problem,” says Monckton

CFACT (Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow), is a UN accredited NGO. CFACT offers positive solutions to today’s global challenges with the aid of its influential scientific advisory board, aggressive collegiate program, CFACT Europe, Adopt-A-Village project, Global Social Responsibility program, and “Just the Facts” national radio commentary.

You will find biographies for our delegation, video, event calendars, and more media resources at www.CFACT.TV.

Fox News recently released documents where United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) discusses how to use environmental policies to expand its reach and power. UNEP plans to use the media frenzy in the wake of the Copenhagen Climate Summit to launch its strategy.

Lord Christopher Monckton, a former adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and member of CFACT’s delegation to the Copenhagen Climate Summit, agrees.

“I read the Copenhagen treaty,” says Lord Monckton. “And what it says is this; that a world government is going to be created. The word “government” actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity.”

Monckton explains how the UN will create global governance, using the same method the EU used in a new video released by CFACT.

“The EU model is being taken by the UN as a shining model of what they want to achieve at Copenhagen,“ says Lord Monckton. “At first it will appear to be a little technocratic committee, just like the European Union. Start small so nobody notices, but make sure that it is made by treaty so all countries are bound by it thereafter. A treaty is the only way that your constitution created by your founding fathers, can be overridden by foreigners.”

CFACT (Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow), is a UN accredited NGO. CFACT offers positive solutions to today’s global challenges with the aid of its influential scientific advisory board, aggressive collegiate program, CFACT Europe, Adopt-A-Village project, Global Social Responsibility program, and “Just the Facts” national radio commentary.

You will find biographies for our delegation, video, event calendars, and more media resources at www.CFACT.TV.

Dr. Fred Singer speaks to a crowd in Brussels, Belgium about the IPCC, ClimateGate, and the skeptics’ prospects of winning the debate on climate change.

Dr. Fred Singer on Climategate

Dagsavisen, a national paper in Norway with close ties to the labor movement invited Lene Johansen to write on the political realities on climate change in the U.S. for the special section they will publish in climate right before Copenhagen. It is hard for foreign correspondents to wade too deep into the political realities of another country, but Johansen has experience enough from Washington, DC to explain the congressional opposition to Waxman-Markey in her native language, Norwegian.

“Det var i utgangspunktet lite sannsynlig at den amerikanske kongressen skulle gi klarsignal for kvotehandel. «Climategate» har lagt saken helt død. USA kommer ikke til å ratifisere noen avtale fra København eller forhandlingene neste år. Det er ikke politisk støtte blant velgerne.”

Read the entire piece here: Betydningen av Climategate

The CFACT Collegians group at the University of Connecticut hosted a screening of Not Evil Just Wrong this week. An alarmist student group decided to protest the screening due to the content of the movie, but they were not interested in seeing the movie themselves according to Daily Campus:

“Not everyone present debated the existence of global warming – many students from CFACT said they were more concerned with the way the government handles the issue.

‘I don’t care much about environmental issues. I care about the fact that people are dying because we’re trying to help global warming,’ said Matthew Darling, a 3rd-semester political science major. ‘They’re telling Africa to use solar power when the U.S., the industrialized nations, never had to. Telling them to [use alternative energy] is hypocritical.’

People in developing countries can’t afford to use these energy sources, Darling said.

‘I’m one who believes global warming exists and is caused by humans,’ said Phillip Ruffy, a 1st-semester management for engineering and manufacturing major and CFACT member. ‘I think that governmental regulations are not the way to solve the problem. I’m for free market. I’m a libertarian.’

CFACT members challenged the demonstrators, asking why they weren’t going in to watch the movie.

‘Are you aware of the facts in the movie?’ Ruffy asked Berthiaume. Berthiaume told him he’d seen the trailer, but was not interested in watching the film at this time.”

Read the entire story here: Groups with opposing viewpoints clash outside of presentation

CFACT’s own Paul Driessen commented on Climategate in the Washington Post today. He is calling for the political establishment to take the consequence of the fraud that has been uncovered in this case.

“Most important, the United States, Britain and all other responsible nations should slam the brakes on every proposed “climate crisis” treaty, agreement, bill, regulatory proposal, “endangerment” finding, and endangered species action. We must get to the bottom of this scandal and determine which data and claims are honest and accurate – and which are bogus, fraudulent and unfounded – before moving forward.”

Read the entire comment on the Washington Post Website: Pseudoscience cesspool

Media Advisory

WHERE: Room A1E1, European Parliament Building, Brussels

WHEN: TODAY 15:30-17:30, reception to follow

WHO: Dr. Fred Singer, Lord Christopher Monckton, and Dr. Hans Labohm

WHAT: Climate Gate, NIPCC Report, Copenhagen Climate Summit

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Singer is a lead author on the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) Report, a distinguished atmospheric physicist, and a member of CFACT’s delegation to the Copenhagen Climate Summit will present the NIPCC Report in light of recent developments.

“After reading the Climategate-emails we have realized that global warming may be ‘manmade’ after all,” says Singer.

The NIPCC Report is the most comprehensive compilation of current climate change research available. The report finds that there is no scientific evidence to consider global warming a catastrophic event.

CFACT (Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow), is a UN accredited NGO. CFACT offers positive solutions to today’s global challenges with the aid of its influential scientific advisory board, aggressive collegiate program, CFACT Europe, Adopt-A-Village project, Global Social Responsibility program, and “Just the Facts” national radio commentary.

You will find biographies for our delegation, video, event calendars, and more media resources at www.CFACT.TV. Summary of the NIPCC findings can be found at www.nipccreport.org/aboutReport.html.

Stuart Varney interview with Leighton Steward on Fox Business News – The Benefits of CO2 – Green the Earth.

Manuel de Araujois a Mozambican politician for the constituency of central Zambezia. He was educated in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and in the UK at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He is currently studying for a PhD at the University of East Anglia.

Manuel de Araujo worked for Amnesty International at its headquarters in London as Campaigner for the Portuguese and Spanish African Speaking countries and then as The Campaign Coordinator for the Southern African Development Community Human Rights and Policing Project. Manuel de Araujo is currently the Deputy Chair of the International Affairs Committee in the Mozambican Parliament and also the Founder and Chairperson of the Centre for Mozambican and International Studies (CEMO).

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Senator Fielding is a member of the Australian Senate, elected from the state of Victoria. He is the Federal Parliamentary Leader of the Family First Party in Australia.

Senator Fielding knows a lot about families – he grew up in a family of 16 children and is a proud family man himself. He has been married to Susan for 24 years and they have three children: James, 20, Campbell, 18 and Gabrielle, 15. Steve and Sue live in Wantirna South, an outer suburb of Melbourne.

Steve, who is 48, was born in Reservoir in Melbourne’s northern suburbs. As a child growing up he thought his family was the typical Aussie family – however Steve now realises that ‘typical’ is not the best way to describe the Fielding family.

Steve’s parents, George and Shirley, were both only children. But they just loved kids– so much so they kept having them. They stopped when they got to 16! Today, George is 81 and Shirley is 78. They still live in the family home at Reservoir, where they care for one of Steve’s sisters, Sandra, who has an intellectual disability. George worked at a hardware supplies company in the city called McPhersons. He started there as an office boy when he was 16 and stayed there 40 years. He did a lot of overtime and had a second job on Saturday mornings to bring in extra money. Steve has seven sisters and eight brothers, aged from 57 to 36. No twins or triplets. Steve is seven down from the top.

He and his siblings attended the local Keon Park Primary School and then Merrilands High School.

Shirley’s parents lived nearby and Steve’s gran used to stay with the family from Monday to Friday to help out. She slept in a fold out bed in the hallway which was packed up during the daytime.

The Fielding family didn’t have much money or material things but what Shirley and George did give their kids was plenty of love, time and an education. They taught Steve values such as honesty and respect for others and gave him things he’ll have with him forever; a sense of purpose, of who he is and what he could aspire to. They also taught him that happiness comes from family, not money. And they instilled in him the obligation to contribute to the community.

After finishing high school, Steve did a Bachelor of Engineering degree at RMIT University which he completed in 1983. He then started work at Hewlett Packard where he met Susan, who also worked there.

Steve later moved into management and executive roles with NEC and Siemens, and completed a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) at Monash University in 1992.

Later that year Steve and his family moved to Wellington in New Zealand where he took up an executive role with Telecom NZ. They returned to Australia in 1995. Steve worked with United Energy and then Yellow Pages. For the last five years, he has been with one of Victoria’s largest superannuation funds, Vision Super (formerly Local Authority Super).

A passion for local issues saw Steve elected as a councillor to Knox City Council in 2003 and 2004. Steve stood as a Victorian Senate candidate for the FAMILY FIRST Party in the 2004 election and took up his position in the Senate on July 1, 2005. Steve thinks not enough time is spent discussing how economic pressures are affecting families.

It is well known that parents would like to have more children than they do and an Australian Institute of Family Studies report has found one-third of men and women will have fewer children than they would like. However, it seems that nothing can be done to change this situation. Many single incomes are no longer sufficient to support a family, but nobody asks why. Our tax-free threshold is below the subsistence level, but bringing the tax-free threshold up to this level is not the top priority for political parties.

All the political parties talk about ‘family-friendly’ policies, but it seems they are really market-friendly. You only have to read what employer organisations say about the obligations of employers to be ‘family-friendly’ to work that out, and if we did not get the message the managing partner of a leading national law firm removed any doubts when he said of his employees “You don’t have a right to any free time”. (Australian Financial Review, 22/3/2005)

Steve’s hope is that the presence of FAMILY FIRST will start to turn this situation around.

H. Leighton Steward is a geologist, environmentalist, author, and retired energy industry executive.  He has written about the reasons for the loss of much of the Mississippi River delta (Louisiana’s National Treasure) and has given advice on how the nation can achieve “no net loss” of wetlands in the future; advice that has been accepted by the EPA and U. S. Corps of Engineers. Leighton was lead author on a book about nutrition and health (Sugar Busters) that gave advice on how to lose weight and prevent and or treat diabetes.  The book became a #1 New York Times Best seller for sixteen weeks and made a significant contribution to the changes that have occurred regarding the availability of no-sugar-added, higher fiber, and low-glycemic products in the super markets. More recently, he has written a book Fire, Ice and Paradise that is an endeavor to educate the non-scientist about the many causes of global climate change so that the reader will be better prepared to understand what they hear, see, and read about in the media and from the politicians. In recognition of his many environmental efforts, Leighton has received numerous environmental awards, including the regional EPA Administrator’s Award for environmental excellence.

He is Chairman of the Board of The Institute for the Study of Earth and Man at SMU, was Chairman of the National Wetlands  Coalition, and was twice Chairman of the Audubon Nature Institute.  Leighton currently serves on the boards or boards of visitors of  the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, EOG Resources, The Buffalo Bill Historical Center, the Southwest Research Institute, and is an emeritus member of the Tulane University board.

Leighton’s current interest lies in helping to educate the general public and the politicians about the tremendous benefits of carbon dioxide (CO2) as it relates to the plant and animal kingdoms and their related ecosystems and habitats, and the general health of humanity.

www.plantsneedco2.org

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S. Fred Singer is internationally known for his work on energy and environmental issues. A pioneer in the development of rocket and satellite technology, he devised the basic instrument for measuring stratospheric ozone and was principal investigator on a satellite experiment retrieved by the space shuttle in 1990. He was the first scientist to predict that population growth would increase atmospheric methane–an important greenhouse gas.

Now President of The Science & Environmental Policy Project, a non-profit policy research group he founded in 1990, Singer is also distinguished professor emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia. His previous government and academic positions include Chief Scientist, U.S. Department of Transportation (1987- 89); Deputy Assistant Administrator for Policy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1970-71); Deputy Assistant Secretary for Water Quality and Research, U.S. Department of the Interior (1967- 70); founding Dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences, University of Miami (1964-67); first Director of the National Weather Satellite Service (1962-64); and Director of the Center for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Maryland (1953-62).

Singer has received numerous awards for his research, including a Special Commendation from the White House for achievements in artificial earth satellites, a U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award for the development and management of the U.S. weather satellite program, and the first Science Medal from the British Interplanetary Society. He has served on state and federal advisory panels, including five years as vice chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmospheres. He frequently testifies before Congress.

Singer did his undergraduate work in electrical engineering at Ohio State University and holds a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books and monographs, including Is There an Optimum Level of Population? (McGraw-Hill, 1971), Free Market Energy (Universe Books, 1984), and Global Climate Change (Paragon House, 1989). Singer has also published more than 400 technical papers in scientific, economic, and public policy journals, as well as numerous editorial essays and articles in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New Republic, Newsweek, Journal of Commerce, Washington Times, Washington Post, and other publications. His latest book, Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate, was published in late 1997 through the Independent Institute.

Craig Rucker is the executive director and co-founder of CFACT. He is a native of Buffalo, New York, who received his Masters of Public Administration from the State University of New York at Albany, Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its executive director. For over 20 years, Craig has provided expertise to a wide range of government, academic, media, and industry forums. He serves as co-host of CFACT’s daily national radio commentary called “Just the Facts” that has been airing on some 125 radio stations from coast to coast since 1993. Rucker has written extensively on numerous environmental policy issues, and his work has been featured in such media outlets as CNN, the BBC, USA Today, the Des Moines Register, the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, The Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Rucker has had primary responsibility for helping build CFACT’s Collegians program on more than 20 campuses in nine states, and has attended or brought student delegations to major United Nations conferences in Istanbul, Kyoto, Bonn, Marrakesh, Cancun, and Montreal. Rucker has a wife and four sons, and currently resides in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.