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</div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The <b>Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change</b> claims to be a petition from "scientists concerned with atmospheric and climate problems" who deny that human greenhouse gas emissions are causing global <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a>.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> According to the declaration, "there does not exist today a general scientific consensus about the importance of greenhouse warming from rising levels of carbon dioxide. In fact, most climate specialists now agree that actual observations from both weather satellites and balloon-borne radiosondes show no current warming whatsoever." <sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Leipzig_Declaration_on_Global_Climate_Change#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a></sup></font></p>

<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents</font></h2></div>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Leipzig_Declaration_on_Global_Climate_Change#Background"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Background</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Leipzig_Declaration_on_Global_Climate_Change#Resources"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Resources</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Leipzig_Declaration_on_Global_Climate_Change#References"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Leipzig_Declaration_on_Global_Climate_Change#Related_SourceWatch_articles"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Related <b>SourceWatch </b>articles</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Leipzig_Declaration_on_Global_Climate_Change#External_articles"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">External articles</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Leipzig_Declaration_on_Global_Climate_Change#External_resources"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">External resources</span></font></a></li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Background</font></span></h2>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Leipzig Declaration emerged from a November <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">1995 conference, </span>"The Greenhouse Controversy," cosponsored by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=S._Fred_Singer" title="S. Fred Singer">S. Fred Singer</a>'s <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Environmental_Policy_Project" title="Science and Environmental Policy Project">Science and Environmental Policy Project</a> and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=European_Academy_for_Environmental_Affairs" title="European Academy for Environmental Affairs">European Academy for Environmental Affairs</a> in Leipzig, Germany. It has been widely cited by conservative voices in the "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sound_science" title="Sound science">sound science</a>" movement and is regarded in some circles as the gold standard of scientific expertise on the issue. It has been cited by Singer himself in editorial columns appearing in hundreds of conservative websites and major publications, including the <i><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wall_Street_Journal" title="Wall Street Journal">Wall Street Journal</a></i>, <i>Miami Herald</i>, <i>Detroit News</i>, <i>Chicago Tribune</i>, <i>Cleveland Plain Dealer</i>, <i>Memphis Commercial-Appeal</i>, <i>Seattle Times</i>, and <i>Orange County Register</i>. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jeff_Jacoby&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jeff Jacoby (page does not exist)">Jeff Jacoby</a>, a columnist with the <i>Boston Globe</i>, describes the signers of the Leipzig Declaration as "prominent scholars." </font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heritage_Foundation" title="Heritage Foundation">Heritage Foundation</a> calls them "noted scientists," as do conservative <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Think_tanks" title="Think tanks">think tanks</a> such as <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_for_a_Sound_Economy" title="Citizens for a Sound Economy">Citizens for a Sound Economy</a>, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute" title="Heartland Institute">Heartland Institute</a>, and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_of_Public_Affairs" title="Institute of Public Affairs">Institute of Public Affairs</a> in Australia. Both the Leipzig Declaration and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frederick_Seitz" title="Frederick Seitz">Frederick Seitz</a>'s <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Oregon_Institute_of_Science_and_Medicine#Case_Study:_The_Oregon_Petition" title="Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine">Oregon Petition</a> have been quoted as authoritative sources during deliberations in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When journalist David Olinger of the <i>St. Petersburg Times</i> investigated the Leipzig Declaration, however, he discovered that most of its signers have not dealt with climate issues at all and none of them is an acknowledged leading expert.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b> Twenty-five of the signers were TV weathermen</b> - a profession that requires no in-depth knowledge of climate research. Some did not even have a college degree, such as Dick Groeber of Dick's Weather Service in Springfield, Ohio. Did Groeber regard himself as a scientist? "I sort of consider myself so," he said when asked. "I had two or three years of college training in the scientific area, and 30 or 40 years of self-study." Other signers included a dentist, a medical laboratory researcher, a civil engineer, and an amateur meteorologist.<b> Some were not even found to reside at the addresses they had given. </b><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Leipzig_Declaration_on_Global_Climate_Change#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a></sup></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A journalist with the Danish Broadcasting Company attempted to contact the declaration's 33 European signers and found that four of them could not be located, 12 denied ever having signed, and some had not even heard of the Leipzig Declaration. </span>Those who did admit signing included a medical doctor, a nuclear scientist, and an expert on flying insects. After discounting the signers whose credentials were inflated, irrelevant, false, or unverifiable, it turned out that<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> only 20 of the names on the list had any scientific connection with the study of climate change, and some of those names were known to have obtained grants from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Oil_industry" title="Oil industry">oil and fuel industry</a>, including the German coal industry and the government of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kuwait" title="Kuwait">Kuwait</a> (a major oil exporter)</span>.<a href="http://naturalscience.com/ns/letters/ns_let08.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://naturalscience.com/ns/letters/ns_let08.html" rel="nofollow">[1</a></font>

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</font></a><li id="cite_note-0"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="References" id="References" /><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Leipzig_Declaration_on_Global_Climate_Change#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.sepp.org/policy%20declarations/leipzig.html" class="external text" title="http://www.sepp.org/policy%20declarations/leipzig.html" rel="nofollow">"The Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change"</a>, November 1995.</font></li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Leipzig_Declaration_on_Global_Climate_Change#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> David Olinger, "Cool to the Warnings of Global Warming's Dangers," <i>St. Petersburg Times</i>, July 29, 1996.</font></li>

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<h3><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Related SourceWatch articles</font></span></h3>

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</font></a><h3><a name="External_articles" id="External_articles"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline">External articles</span></font></a></h3>

</font></a><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="External_articles" id="External_articles">Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR1) report, cited in Christian Jensen, "</a><a href="http://naturalscience.com/ns/letters/ns_let08.html" class="external text" title="http://naturalscience.com/ns/letters/ns_let08.html" rel="nofollow">Re: Fred Singer's Comment on Trenberth's Article</a>," <i>naturalSCIENCE</i>, February 11, 1998.</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Doug Henwood, "<a href="http://squawk.ca/lbo-talk/0104/0124.html" class="external text" title="http://squawk.ca/lbo-talk/0104/0124.html" rel="nofollow">Re: Global Warming</a>," <i>Left Business Observer</i>, April 3, 2001</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, <i>Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your Future</i> (New York, NY: Tarcher Putnam, 2002).</font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig_Declaration" class="external text" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig_Declaration" rel="nofollow">Leipzig Declaration</a>," <i>Wikipedia</i></font></li>

<li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19980629120420/www.sepp.org/LDsigs.html" class="external text" title="http://web.archive.org/web/19980629120420/www.sepp.org/LDsigs.html" rel="nofollow">Leipzig Declaration: List of Signers</a>. SEPP. Retrieved on 1998-06-29.</font></li>

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<li>Hans Bulow and Poul-Eric Heilburth, "The Energy Conspiracy" (video documentary), Filmakers Library, 124 East 40th Street, New York, NY 10016.</li>

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</span><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1600 S Eads St. Suite 712-S, Arlington, VA 22202
Phone: 703-920-2744
Climate

skeptic S. Fred Singer founded Science and Environmental Policy Project

in 1990. SEPP's mission is "to clarify the diverse problems facing

the planet and, where necessary, arrive at effective, cost-conscious

solutions."

SEPP's position on global warming claims: "Without

firm evidence that an appreciable warming will occur as a result of

human activities, or that its consequences would be harmful, there can

be no justification for bureaucratic remedies or any action beyond a

"no-regrets" policy of energy efficiency and market-based conservation"

(http://www.sepp.org/keyissue.html). Other issues of concern include

ozone depletion and "regulatory excess."

SEPP was the author of the Leipzig Declaration, which was supposedly

based on the "scientfic" conclusions drawn from a November 1995

conference in Leipzig, Germany, which SEPP organized with the European

Academy for Environmental Affairs. SEPP publicly used the Declaration

to suggest there is little scientific consensus on global warming.

According to P.R. Watch, news reporters discovered that in the end,

twenty-five of the signers were TV weathermen - a profession that

requires no in-depth knowledge of climate research. Other signers

included a dentist, a medical laboratory researcher, a civil engineer,

and an amateur meteorologist. Of the 33 European signers, four of them

could not be located, 12 denied ever having signed, and some had not

even heard of the Leipzig Declaration. After discounting the signers

whose credentials were inflated, irrelevant, false, or unverifiable, it

turned out that only 20 of the names on the list had any scientific

connection with the study of climate change

(paraphrased from

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Leipzig_Declaration_on_Global_Climate_Change).

</font></p><h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">KEY QUOTES</font></h3><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em><b>"Climate

science is not 'settled;' it is both uncertain and incomplete. The

available observations do not support the mathematical models that

predict a substantial global warming and form the basis for a control

policy on greenhouse (GH) gas emissions. We need a more targeted program

of climate research to settle major scientific problems."</b></em>
Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=65#src3">SEPP website</a>

<em><b>"Global

agriculture will likely benefit from climate warming and increased

precipitation; increased CO2 leads to more rapid plant growth; increased

nocturnal and winter warming leads to a longer growing season. Farmers

can and will adjust to climate changes."</b></em>
Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=65#src3">SEPP website</a>

</font></p><h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">KEY DEEDS</font></h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">14 May, 2002
Held

a briefing at the National Press Club, along with Frontiers for Freedom

and the Cooler Heads Coalition, entitled "Experts Discuss Why U.S.

Should Withdraw From Kyoto Treaty."
Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=65#src2">"Experts Discuss Why U.S. Should Withdraw From Kyoto Treaty," U.S. Newswire 5/14/02</a>

21 April, 1998
Released

a statement that "More than 15,000 scientists, [8/4/98: now about

17,000] two-thirds with advanced academic degrees, have now signed a

Petition against the climate accord concluded in Kyoto (Japan) in

December 1997."

The petition said that "There is no convincing scientific evidence that

human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is

causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating

of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate.

Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in

atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the

natural plant and animal environments of the Earth."

Journalists and others investigating the petition, known as the Leipzig

Declaration, had difficulty verifying the number and authenticity of the

signatures.
Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=65#src3">SEPP website</a>

7 June, 2002
President

S. Fred Singer signed a letter to President Bush, asking him to

withdraw the "Climate Action Report 2002" and demand that it be

rewritten based on "sound science." The letter also recommends that

Bush "dismiss or re-assign all administration employees who are not

pursuing your agenda, just as you have done in several similar

instances."
Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=65#src4">Joint Letter To President Bush On The EPA's Climate Action Report 6/7/02</a>
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