High Park Group

<h3>Harris Conceals His Connection to High Park Group</h3>

Harris was Harris was the Director of Operations of the Ottawa office of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=High_Park_Group">High Park Group</a> until October, 2006. The High Park Group is a lobbyist organization for the energy industry.

Harris has <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris-pops-up-down-under">attempted to remove this fact</a> from the NRSP entry on Wikipedia and Sourcewatch. He also denied his employment with the High Park Group in a <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/11/now_really_secret_payments.php#comment-259732">comment</a> on Deltiod.

His by-line in some Canada Free Press <a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/harris060406.htm">articles</a>

was misleading, calling him "a mechanical engineer and Executive

Director of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project." But in articles

published in the <a href="http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=6bbce5b7-4a75-48c2-970c-db7f30d979b9&p=2">Windsor Star</a>, <a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot/27080">Vancouver Sun</a>, the <a href="http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?7dd37e7d-1cfd-42ca-8e21-f2a4de2e97d4">Hawaii Reporter</a> and even another in <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22945">Canada Free Press</a>, Harris is listed as "a mechanical engineer and Ottawa director of High Park Group, a public affairs and public policy company."=desmog<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="line-height: 18.59px;"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h1 style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-bottom: 0.75em;">Tom Harris</h1><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Credentials</h2><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li>B. Eng. (thermofluids).</li><li>M. Eng. (thermofluids).</li></ul>Source: <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s1" style="text-decoration: none;">[1]</a><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Background</h2>Tom Harris is the Executive Director of the<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/international-climate-science-coalition" style="text-decoration: none;"> International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC)</a>, a group of climate change skeptics that has received funding from the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" style="text-decoration: none;">Heartland Institute</a>. Before starting work with ICSC, Harris was the Executive Director of the now-defunct <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Natural_Resources_Stewardship_Project" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP)</a>. Prior to working with the NRSP, Harris was a Director of Operations of the Ottawa office of a Canadian PR and lobbying firm called the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=High_Park_Advocacy_Group" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">High Park Group (HPG).</a> Harris has also worked with APCO worldwide, a group known for creating <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/advancement-sound-science-coalition" style="text-decoration: none;">The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC)</a> which worked to advance tobacco industry interests.<h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Stance on Climate Change</h2><a href="http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=121&Itemid=67" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Tom Harris's International Climate Science Coalition</a> asserts that “global warming has generally been highly beneficial,” and that “Global climate is always changing in accordance with natural causes and recent changes are not unusual.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s2" style="text-decoration: none;">[2]</a><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Key Quotes</h2>June, 2016<blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“Most adults consider security, potable water, education, etc., much more important than climate change. And when you consider about 5 million Africans die every year because they do not have fresh, drinkable water, you realize the kids are being totally propagandized.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s32" style="text-decoration: none;">[32]</a>“The number-one factor in the rising cost of electricity is the phasing out of coal. People will have to pay more for electricity, and this will disproportionately harm the poor, who will have to pay a greater portion of their budgets for heat and to cool their homes.”</blockquote>May, 2015<blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“Climate will continue to change no matter what we do. So let's help the world's poor to the degree we can afford by providing them with reliable, inexpensive electricity and stop pretending we have a crystal ball to future climate states.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s19" style="text-decoration: none;">[19]</a></blockquote>2008 International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC)<blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“We want to use the tools of the pros when it comes to lobbying. That's not something our group is focused especially on, but other groups like Heartland are indeed good in that area. We want to, of course, continue to conduct good science and to promote its use through climate policy. Now there are various groups doing this already and I'm sure you've heard of them all, I won't list them, but there are several components missing, and these are things that we hope to incorporate into the new International Climate Science Coalition.

“We need regular high-impact media coverage of the findings of leading scientists – not just one or two publications but we need to have hundreds all over the world. We need to have a high degree of information sharing and cooperation between groups so that when Vincent Gray, for example, has an article published in New Zealand, we can take the same piece, and we can (say) submit it to newspapers all over North America and Europe. Then we have a nicely well-coordinated response where letters to the editor and phone calls are made, 'Congratulations on publishing that article!'

“You know, it's interesting because I've had many of my articles opposed so strongly by environmentalists through phone calls and letters to the editor that they just simply dry up; they just won't publish us again. So this does have feedback, I mean, these are people that run these newspapers and they're scared, and impressed, and encouraged, depending on the feedback they get.

“We have to have grassroots organizations doing exactly that kind of thing – coordinated local activism. And finally, as I said, we need unbiased polling and good press coverage.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s3" style="text-decoration: none;">[3]</a></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"> </blockquote><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Key Deeds</h2>June 22, 2016After a Massachusetts court <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/05/17/massachusetts-court-sides-teenagers-historic-climate-victory" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">sided with a group of teenagers by ruling the state had failed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s32" style="text-decoration: none;">[32]</a> Tom Harris <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160623173609/http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2016/06/22/massachusetts-loses-climate-action-case-brought-youths" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">claimed that today's youth are being “propagandized” by the environmental movement</a>: <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s33" style="text-decoration: none;">[33]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“What we really need to be asking is, ‘Is known suffering of people today more important than possible suffering of unborn people in the future,’” Harris said. “Most people have never thought about climate change this way, and the kids are all focused on possible future suffering. This is an absolute crime.”“Most adults consider security, potable water, education, etc., much more important than climate change,” said Harris. “And when you consider about 5 million Africans die every year because they do not have fresh, drinkable water, you realize the kids are being totally propagandized.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s33" style="text-decoration: none;">[33]</a></blockquote>Harris also commended on why he believes coal power should not be phased out:<blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“The number-one factor in the rising cost of electricity is the phasing out of coal,” said Harris. “People will have to pay more for electricity, and this will disproportionately harm the poor, who will have to pay a greater portion of their budgets for heat and to cool their homes.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s33" style="text-decoration: none;">[33]</a></blockquote>June 13, 2016Tom Harris was quoted in the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Heartland Institute</a>'s press release, “<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160623180105/https://www.heartland.org/press-releases/2016/06/13/heartland-institute-experts-react-us-house-passing-anti-carbon-tax-resolut" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Heartland Institute Experts React to U.S. House Passing Anti-Carbon Tax Resolution</a>.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s34" style="text-decoration: none;">[34]</a>“The Obama administration apparently does not understand that regulations such as the Clean Power Plan will have no measurable impact on global climate. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy admitted this at a Congressional hearing, and repeatedly asserted that the primary purpose of the rules is to set an example for the world to follow.“But developing countries, the source of most of today’s carbon dioxide emissions – the only gas targeted by the Clean Power Plan – have indicated they have no intention of limiting their development for ‘climate protection’ purposes. In fact, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the foundation of all UN climate change agreements, states clearly in Article 4 that the ‘economic and social development and poverty eradication are the first and overriding priorities of the developing country Parties,’ not climate change.“Actions to significantly reduce CO2 emissions would entail dramatically cutting back on the use of coal, the source of 81 percent of China’s electricity and 71 percent of India’s. As coal is by far the least expensive source of electric power in most parts of the world, reducing CO2 emissions by restricting coal use would unquestionably interfere with development priorities. So developing countries simply won’t do it, citing the UN’s own treaties in support of their actions.“Most of the public would pay nothing at all to support an improbable hope that other countries follow America to possibly avert a hypothetical future problem. So of course polling companies never ask the public about this important issue. The answer would be most inconvenient.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s34" style="text-decoration: none;">[34]</a>July 17, 2015<div style="line-height: 17.6px;">In a July 17, 2015 article in the “Opinion” section of the Windsor Star, titled “<a href="http://www.pressreader.com/canada/windsor-star/20150717/281689728497069/TextView" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Government climate policies wreak damage</a>,” Tom Harris writes that “for an increasing fraction of the world's population, the real crisis is not the possibility that dangerous human-caused climate change may someday occur. It is the serious problems being caused today by government policies to mitigate climate change.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s22" style="text-decoration: none;">[22]</a></div><div style="line-height: 17.6px;"> </div><div style="line-height: 17.6px;">Harris continues, stating that efforts to reduce CO2 emissions is “causing food price spikes that are a disaster for the world's poor.” He also claims that “electricity rates have soared, mostly affecting the poor” due to increases in wind energy. </div>June 11-12, 2015Tom Harris was a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150630170131/http://climateconference.heartland.org/speakers/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">speaker</a> on Panel 12: “<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150715132448/http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/63596672" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Effective Climate Science Communication</a>,” at the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Heartland Institute</a>’s Tenth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC10) in Washington, D.C., with <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/john-coleman" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">John Coleman</a> and Michael Bastasch. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s20" style="text-decoration: none;">[20]</a>View Tom Harris’ Panel 12 presentation at the Heartland Institute’s ICCC10, below: <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s21" style="text-decoration: none;">[21]</a>March, 2015Tom Harris, Director of the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/international-climate-science-coalition" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">International Climate Science Coalition</a>, met with both <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUq09FXz4Oo" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">CKNW News Talk 980 radio</a> and<a href="http://www.cjbk.com/interviews/2015/03/27/tom-harris" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;"> NewsTalk 1290 CJBK radio</a> to discuss why “Earth Hour is a mistake.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s23" style="text-decoration: none;">[23]</a>,<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s24" style="text-decoration: none;">[24]</a>Video of CKNW News Talk 980 interview below:November 6, 2014In an <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160323171945/http://tulsabeacon.com/article/west-virginia-is-not-affecting-sea-levels-in-rhode-island" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">article in the Tulsa Beacon</a>, Tom Harris (<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/international-climate-science-coalition" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">ICSC's Director</a>) comments that it is “frightening that West Virginia's Sen. Joe Manchin is attempting to find common ground with climate change activist, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island.”Harris, who does not have a background in climate change science, states that “the rate of sea-level rise today is now so low that adaptation is relatively easy,” claiming that because sea levels were rising in the Holocene period that we shouldn't worry about modern-day sea level rise. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s25" style="text-decoration: none;">[25]</a>November 5, 2014The <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Heartland Institute</a>'s “environmental science and policy experts” <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20141111145056/http://blog.heartland.org/2014/11/heartland-institute-experts-comment-on-latest-united-nations-climate-report/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">published comments</a> following the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) release of its “<a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/syr/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Synthesis Report</a>,” completing the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s18" style="text-decoration: none;">[18]</a>Tom Harris wrote that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon “exemplified the childish and deceptive nature of the UN's approach to climate change when [Ban Ki-moon] told reporters at this week's launch of the Synthesis Report in Copenhagen: 'Human influence on the climate system is clear - and clearly growing. … The atmosphere and oceans have warmed. … Science has spoken. There is no ambiguity in their message.'” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s18" style="text-decoration: none;">[18]</a> Harris stated the “human influence on global climate is not even detectable,” and that it is “lost in the noise of natural variability … Neither the oceans nor the atmosphere have warmed of late … There is massive ambiguity in the science.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#18" style="text-decoration: none;">[18]</a>November 2, 2014As <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160504151255/http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=873:icsc-contests-green-party-leader-on-new-un-report" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">reported in an ICSC press release</a>, representatives <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/bob-carter" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Bob Carter</a> and Tom Harris went on the The Roy Green Show to debate Green Party Leader Elizabeth May regarding the new UN IPCC Synthesis Report. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s26" style="text-decoration: none;">[26]</a>Audio of the debate is below:October 29, 2014The <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Heartland Institute</a>'s “energy and environment experts” commented on the ruling by the Health Board of Brown County, Wisconsin, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20141104203939/http://www.bccrwe.com/index.php/8-news/16-duke-energy-s-shirley-wind-declared-human-health-hazard" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">declaring wind turbines a “human health hazard</a>.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s15" style="text-decoration: none;">[15]</a> , <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s16" style="text-decoration: none;">[16]</a> Tom Harris writes that “without taxpayer funded subsidies, large wind turbine projects are not economically viable … However, the government funds them regardless because of the appearance that their use helps 'fight climate change.'” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s15" style="text-decoration: none;">[15]</a>Harris continues:“More importantly, the hypothesis that carbon dioxide emissions from human activity is damaging the climate has been thoroughly debunked by reports such as those of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change. So, the main reason the government funds wind power is no longer valid.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s15" style="text-decoration: none;">[15]</a>October 9, 2014Tom Harris is quoted in the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Heartland Institute</a>'s press release, “<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20141016161949/http://heartland.org/press-releases/2014/10/09/heartland-institute-climate-experts-comment-18-straight-years-no-global-wa" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Heartland Institute Climate Experts Comment on 18 Straight Years of No Global Warming</a>,” which states “the global mean surface temperature has not risen for 18 consecutive years. This extends the so-called 'pause' in global warming to a new record, one not predicted by the climate models of the United Nations' International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s14" style="text-decoration: none;">[14]</a> Harris writes:“The global warming scare is driven by computerized climate model forecasts of the future. If the models are unreliable, then there is little basis for concern, since real-world observations show that the climate change of the past century falls well within natural variability. In 2008, the NOAA ‘State of the Climate’ report specified exactly what observations would indicate whether the models are reliable or not: Fifteen years of no warming. In 2009, climate scientist Phil Jones agreed, telling a colleague in one of the leaked Climategate emails: ‘Bottom line: the “no upward trend” has to continue for a total of 15 years before we get worried.’“Having just passed 18 years with no warming, the criteria, as set by alarmists themselves, is now satisfied. The global warming scare is over.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s14" style="text-decoration: none;">[14]</a>September 25, 2014Tom Harris, Executive Director of the ICSC, was <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150818193637/http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=868:climate-protests-promote-moral-travesty&catid=1:latest&Itemid=2" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">interviewed by Canada's Sun Media TV Host Marissa Semkiw</a>, describing climate change protests as “a moral travesty.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s27" style="text-decoration: none;">[27]</a>August 11, 2014Tom Harris published an opinion piece in the New York Post titled “<a href="http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/images/ny-post-11-08-14.jpg" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">The EPA Vs. The Public and Science</a>.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s28" style="text-decoration: none;">[28]</a>In the piece, Harris criticizes the Obama administration for never having attended the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Heartland Institute's</a> International Conferences on Climate Change. He also criticizes the EPA, saying they “didn't even consult with utilities that actually burn coal to produce electricity” before attending public hearings. <blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“[T]he EPA is intent on regulations that will drive energy prices through the roof, throwing millions out of work, while having no measurable impact on the environment,” Harris wrote. </blockquote>July 7 - 9, 2014Tom Harris was a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140714154246/http://climateconference.heartland.org/speakers/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">speaker</a> at the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Heartland Institute</a>’s Ninth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC9) in Las Vegas, Nevada. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s13" style="text-decoration: none;">[13]</a>DeSmogBlog has done in-depth research on the other speakers and sponsors from <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140714160136/http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/07/08/return-denial-palooza-heartland-institute-hitches-anti-science-wagon-freedomfest" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Heartland's ICCC9</a>.June 3, 2014Tom Harris, Executive Director of ICSC, was interviewed by Sun News where he “dissects Obama Administration 'Clean Power Plan' (CPP) issued on June 2,” <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150818195458/http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=856:obama-clean-energy-plan-a-dangerous-qsleight-of-handq&catid=1:latest&Itemid=2" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 1.1em;">reports a International Climate Science Coalition press release.</a> The video of the interview no longer appears available. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s29" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 1.1em;">[29]</a>May 13, 2014<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150818200214/http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=851:third-national-climate-assessment-qa-fairy-taleq&catid=1:latest&Itemid=2" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">As reported by an ICSC Press Release</a>, Executive Director Tom Harris was interviewed by <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ezra-levant" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Ezra Levant</a> on the Sun Media's network to discuss “Agenda driven science from the White House.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s30" style="text-decoration: none;">[30]</a>April 9, 2014Tom Harris, ICSC Exective Director, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140729003708/http://voiceofrussia.com/us/2014_04_10/Coalition-Claims-Climate-Change-It-s-Actually-A-Good-Thing-3802/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 1.1em;">went on to the Voice of Russia radio where he was interviewed by Kells Hetherington</a>. In the interview, Harris said that climate change is “actually a good thing”: <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s31" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 1.1em;">[31]</a><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">“In fact we are seeing a 'greening,' where deserts are actually retreating, forests are expanding, and we're seeing more habitat for wildlife,” explained Harris. “It's actually a good thing that this kind of climate change is occurring.”<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s31" style="text-decoration: none;">[31]</a></blockquote>March, 2014Harris supports comments made by climate science denialist and creationist scientist Roy Spencer, of the University of Alabama, Huntsville.Dr. Spencer had said he would be using the phrase “<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/02/20/climate-change-denier-roy-spencer-says-people-who-use-word-denier-are-global-warming-nazis" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">global warmng Nazi</a>” to describe anyone who had used the term “deniers” in reference to people's position on human-caused climate change. In a comment on Spencer's blog, Mr. Harris said: “Those who personally attack others in despicable ways simply because they disagree with their opinions on science matters are indeed behaving like Nazis. They are clearly trying to silence opposition through bully boy tactics, just like the Nazis.”Harris <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw_cZV1yOHM" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">referred readers to a radio phone-in</a>, where he had called CFRA 580 News Talk Radio host Nick Vandergragt to complain of what he claimed was unfair treatment at the hands of environment group Ecology Ottawa.  Harris told Vandergragt:<blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">The environmental groups are not just.. like.. you know, home clubs that get together and talk about the weather. They actually affect society. They write letters, they go out and protest and actually take action and they are changing our society and they are ruining our society.</blockquote>February, 2014Tom Harris appears as part of a <a href="http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_02_21/39th-VoR-Live-Panel-Climate-change-what-can-science-do-3081/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">three-person panel on international radio program Voice of Russia</a> alongside Benny Peiser, of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, and Georgy Safonov, of Russia's Higher School of Economics. Harris tells listeners that Russian solar scientists were predicting “a new little Ice Age by around 2055”.  He said that the “massive problems that we have due to climate change occur all the time” and said conditions could return to “global cooling” and those felt by Napoleonic forces in their 1812 invasion of Russia.November 6, 2013Tom Harris <a href="http://blog.heartland.org/2013/11/heartlands-tom-harris-on-sun-news/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">appears on Canada's Sun News Network to discuss the case of “climate refugees.”</a> Harris says, “This is a real problem. If we bow to this, there's all sorts of other things we're going to have to bow to. For example, right now, Micronesia, believe it or not, is suing the government of the Czech Republic because of their coal stations because Micronesia says that the CO2 emissions from the Czech Republic are destroying the corals and making the islands sink … It has nothing to do with the West and our CO2 consumption.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s12" style="text-decoration: none;">[12]</a>May 21 - 23, 2012Tom Harris was a <a href="http://climateconference.heartland.org/speakers/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">speaker</a> at the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" style="text-decoration: none;">Heartland Institute</a>'s 7th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC7).DeSmogBlog<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-denial-palooza-sponsors-have-received-67-million-exxonmobil-koch-and-scaife-foundations" style="text-decoration: none;"> researched the co-sponsors behind Heartland's ICCC7</a> and found that they had collectively received over $67 million from ExxonMobil, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Brothers" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Koch Brothers </a>and the conservative <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scaife_Foundations" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Scaife family foundations</a>.February, 2012The <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/fake-heartland-scientist-infiltrates-canadian-university" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Committee for the Advancement of Scientific Skepticism (CASS) issues a damning report</a> into a university climate change course being delivered by Tom Harris to students at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.CASS researched materials being used by Harris in his course, titled “Climate Change: An Earth Sciences Perspective” and found more than 140 errors. The authors also found that four guest lecturers and contributors chosen by Harris to supplement the materials were all associatied with Harris' climate change denial PR group the International Climate Science Coalition.CASS said:<blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">On auditing the course, CASS discovered that key messages for students contradict accepted scientific opinion. These messages include: denying that current climate change has an anthropogenic cause; dismissing the problems that carbon dioxide emissions cause because CO2 is plant food; denying the existence of the scientific consensus on the causes of climate change; and claiming that we should prepare instead for global cooling.</blockquote>In a <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-skeptic-s-university-course-criticized-1.1161341" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">CBC news report</a>, Harris defended the course and said he saw nothing that needed correcting. July, 2011Harris was a<a href="http://climateconference.heartland.org/speakers-2/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;"> speaker</a> at the Heartland Institute's Sixth International Conference on Climate Change. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s4" style="text-decoration: none;"> [4]</a>See a video of his speech below:June, 2011An <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/climate-sceptic-group-reveals-strategy-document-win-hearts-and-minds" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">International Climate Science Coalition strategy and fundraising document</a>, compiled by Tom Harris, discusses the group's PR plan.  The plan includes an extensive campaign to place opinion columns and letters in newspapers and online media websites and to call radio phone-in programmes. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/icsc-plan-12-06-11c.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">The document</a> says:<blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">For rational public policy to triumph in spite of the powerful obstacles we face will require that the vast majority of the public and opinion leaders from across the political spectrum come to regard man-made global warming fears as unfounded and regularly say that it is unfounded. </blockquote>Elsewhere in the document, Harris writes:<blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;">To avoid electricity brown-outs, then black-outs, fuel shortages and soaring costs, we must derail the climate change scaremongering that is driving these dangerous trends. If we don’t, unemployment will rise quickly as companies and governments face debilitating energy costs. Collateral economic damage will be most severe in rural areas that are already seriously challenged. Reduced funding for education, health care, defense, science and worthwhile environmental programs will follow, eventually threatening national security.</blockquote>March 4, 2008Harris's ICSC promotes the <a href="http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=54" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Manhattan Declaration </a>which states that “global warming is not a global crisis” and that “there is no convincing evidence that CO2 emissions from modern industrial activity has in the past, is now, or will in the future cause catastrophic climate change.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s5" style="text-decoration: none;">[5]</a>The declaration was agreed at the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" style="text-decoration: none;">Heartland Institute's</a> 2008 International Conference on Climate Change.Harris was also a speaker at 2008 International Conference on Climate Change. In his speech, Harris discussed “information sharing” and “coordinated local activism” for climate change skeptics. See video of his presentation below:
November 7, 2006

<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/11/07/now-really-secret-payments/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Some suggest</a> that Tom Harris has edited the Wikipedia page for the Natural Resources Stewardship Project to remove his connection to the High Park Group. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s6" style="text-decoration: none;">[6]</a>Harris also made <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Tom+Harris" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">numerous attempts</a> to modify the information on his SourceWatch page as well as the SourceWatch pages for the Natural Resources Stewardship Project and Friends of Science.November, 2006Harris <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/nrsp-director-a-freelance-writer-for-hire" style="text-decoration: none;">posted</a> comments on numerous blogs and websites criticizing the CBC's documentary, The Denial Machine.2004Tom Harris was one of three Canadians “part of a network of academics receiving monthly payments from the Chicago-based <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Heartland Institute</a> as part of its advocacy work to cast doubt on scientific evidence linking human activity to global warming observed in recent decades,” according to a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20141107172045/http://mikedesouza.com/2012/09/27/feds-discreet-about-foreign-funding-of-climate-skeptics/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">report from Postmedia News</a>' Mike De Souza. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s17" style="text-decoration: none;">[17]</a> Harris' previous work as a public relations consultant, funded by the oil and gas industry, yielded “a video attacking the Kyoto Protocol and peer-reviewed scientific literature linking human activity to climate change,” using <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/64992695/APCO-Climate-Skepticism-Strategy" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">“research accounts”</a> from the University of Calgary. Talisman Energy, an Alberta-based energy company, <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/64856306/Talisman-letter" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">donated $175,000 toward the project</a>, which is titled “Research on the Climate-Change Debate.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s17" style="text-decoration: none;">[17]</a><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/madhav-khandekar" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Madhav Khandekar</a> was among the other Canadians mentioned in the internal financial records as having receiving funds from the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Heartland Institute</a>. Khandekar wrote that there was “nothing secret about it,” receiving a $1,000 per month stipend from Heartland, “for doing the literature review and providing commentaries on the website.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s17" style="text-decoration: none;">[17]</a><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Affiliations</h2>The International Climate Science CoalitionHarris is the executive director of the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160504141252/http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=280" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC)</a>.  The Coalition is an organization of scientists, economists and policy experts who have united to promote a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160423002846/http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=703" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">better public understanding of climate science</a>.  In particular, the International Climate Science Coalition offers an alternative to science projections and policy recommendation of the United Nations' International Panel on Climate Change.The ICSC regularly publishes information denying the theory of anthropogenic (man-made) global warming.  Its <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160504141252/http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=280" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">science and policy advisory boards</a> are filled with climate change deniers, including <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Tim Ball</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/christopher-essex" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Christopher Essex</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/madhav-khandekar" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Madhav Khandekar</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/jay-h-lehr" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Jay Lehr</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/william-kininmonth" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">William Kininmonth</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Bellamy" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">David Bellamy</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/scott-armstrong" style="text-decoration: none;">Scott Armstrong</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/vincent-gray" style="text-decoration: none;">Vincent Gray</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/kesten-green" style="text-decoration: none;">Kesten Green</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/chris-dde-freitas" style="text-decoration: none;">Chris de Freitas</a> and <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/nils-axel-morner" style="text-decoration: none;">Nils-Axel Morner</a>.High Park GroupHarris was the Director of Operations of the Ottawa office of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=High_Park_Group" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">High Park Group</a> until October, 2006. The High Park Group is a lobbying organization for the energy industry.Harris has <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris-pops-up-down-under" style="text-decoration: none;">attempted to remove this fact</a> from the NRSP entry on Wikipedia and Sourcewatch. He also denied his employment with the High Park Group in a <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/11/now_really_secret_payments.php#comment-259732" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">comment</a> on Deltoid.His by-line in some Canada Free Press <a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/harris060406.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">articles</a> was misleading, calling him “a mechanical engineer and Executive Director of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project.” But in articles published in the <a href="http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=6bbce5b7-4a75-48c2-970c-db7f30d979b9&p=2" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Windsor Star</a>, <a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot/27080" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Vancouver Sun</a>, the <a href="http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?7dd37e7d-1cfd-42ca-8e21-f2a4de2e97d4" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Hawaii Reporter</a> and even another in <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22945" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Canada Free Press</a>, Harris is listed as “a mechanical engineer and Ottawa director of High Park Group, a public affairs and public policy company.”Harris's connection has been removed from the High Park Group website, and archived records have also been deleted<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Harris%28Canadian_engineer/PR_specialist%29" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">according to SourceWatch</a>.APCO WorldwideIn 2005, Harris was <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040605183252/www.apcoworldwide.com/content/Offices/North_America/ottawa_key_staff.cfm" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">listed</a> as an “associate” for the public relations firm APCO Worldwide, with his areas of expertise being communications; science; technology; energy and environment. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s7" style="text-decoration: none;">[7]</a>APCO was hired by Philip Morris in 1993 to create a front group titled The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/%20http%3A//www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Advancement_of_Sound_Science_Coalition" style="text-decoration: none;">TASSC</a>).TASSC manufactured a public relations campaign with the purpose of discrediting any science that suggested tobacco increased cancer and heart problems. It also advocated industry-friendly positions on global warming and pesticides. TASSClabeled environmentalists as promoting “junk science” while the Coalition advocated what they describe as “sound science.”Apart from Philip Morris, APCO also received funding from Chevron, ExxonMobil (at least <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=6" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">$30,000</a>), Dow Chemical, the National Pest Control Association, 3M, and numerous tobacco and oil companies.The Natural Resource Stewardship Project (NRSP)Harris was formerly the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070213215606/http://nrsp.com/people.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Executive Director</a> for the now-defunct Canadian lobby group called the “Natural Resource Stewardship Project” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/nrsp-not-really-science-people" style="text-decoration: none;">(NRSP)</a>. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s8" style="text-decoration: none;">[8]</a>Two of the three <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/nrsp-controlled-by-energy-lobbyists" style="text-decoration: none;">directors</a> on the board of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project were also <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060701050941/www.highparkgroup.com/team.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">senior executives</a> of the<a href="http://www.highparkgroup.com/index.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">High Park Advocacy Group</a>, a Toronto-based lobby firm that specializes in “energy, environment and ethics.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris#s9" style="text-decoration: none;">[9]</a>The NRSP was also home to the prolific climate change skeptic Dr. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball" style="text-decoration: none;">Tim Ball</a>.<h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Publications</h2>According to a search of Google Scholar, Tom Harris has not published any articles in peer-reviewed journals.<h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Resources</h2><ol style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li><a name="s1" id="s1">“'</a><a href="http://clmatechange.blogspot.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Climate change is REAL</a>' - well, so what else is new?” NRSP (blog), November 6, 2006.”</li><li><a name="s2" id="s2">“</a><a href="http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=121&Itemid=67" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Core Principles</a>,” International Climate Science Coalition. Accessed December, 2011.</li><li><a name="s3" id="s3">Youtube Video. “</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7MEgij4AnA" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Global warming 'skepticism' – 'coordinated local activism'</a>,” uploaded by user frankbi on September 29, 2008. This is an excerpt of Harris's speech at the Heartland Institute's 2008 International Conference on Climate Change.</li><li><a name="s4" id="s4">“</a><a href="http://climateconference.heartland.org/speakers-2/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Speakers</a>,” Sixth International Conference on Climate Change. Accessed December, 2011.</li><li><a name="s5" id="s5">“</a><a href="http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=54" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change</a>,” The International Climate Science Coalition.</li><li><a name="s6" id="s6">Tim Lambert. “</a><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/11/now_really_secret_payments.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Now Really Secret Payments</a>,” Deltoid, November 7, 2006. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160214013809/http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/11/07/now-really-secret-payments/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Archived February 14, 2016</a>. WebCite URL:<a href="http://www.webcitation.org/6fHNQTZWs" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">www.webcitation.org/6fHNQTZWs</a></li><li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040605183252/www.apcoworldwide.com/content/Offices/North_America/ottawa_key_staff.cfm" name="s7" id="s7" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Ottowa Key Staff</a>, APCO Worldwide. Archived June 5, 2004.</li><li><a name="s8" id="s8">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070213215606/http://nrsp.com/people.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">NRSP People</a>,” Natural Resources Stewardship Project. Archived February 13, 2007.</li><li><a name="s9" id="s9">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060701050941/www.highparkgroup.com/team.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Our Team</a>,” High Park Group. Archived July 1, 2006.</li><li>“<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Harris%28Canadian_engineer/PR_specialist%29" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Tom Harris</a>,” SourceWatch Profile.</li><li><a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1356" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Tom Harris</a>.</li><li><a name="s12" id="s12">“</a><a href="http://blog.heartland.org/2013/11/heartlands-tom-harris-on-sun-news/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Tom Harris on Sun News: Phony Climate Refugees</a>,” Heartland Institute, November 6, 2013.</li><li><a name="s13" id="s13">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140714160136/http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/07/08/return-denial-palooza-heartland-institute-hitches-anti-science-wagon-freedomfest" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Return of Climate Denial-a-Palooza: Heartland Institute Hitches Anti-Science Wagon to Vegas FreedomFest</a>,” DeSmogBlog, July 7, 2014. Archived July 14, 2014.</li><li><a name="s14" id="s14">Tom Harris. “</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20141016161949/http://heartland.org/press-releases/2014/10/09/heartland-institute-climate-experts-comment-18-straight-years-no-global-wa" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Heartland Institute Climate Experts Comment on 18 Straight Years of No Global Warming</a>,” Heartland Institute, October 9, 2014. Archived October 16, 2014.</li><li><a name="s15" id="s15">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20141104205130/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/10/prweb12288838.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Wind Turbines Being a 'Human Health Hazard'</a>,” PRWeb, October 29, 2014. Archived November 4, 2014.</li><li><a name="s16" id="s16">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20141104203939/http://www.bccrwe.com/index.php/8-news/16-duke-energy-s-shirley-wind-declared-human-health-hazard" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Duke Energy's Shirley Wind Turbines Declared 'Human Health Hazard'</a>,” Brown County Citizens for Responsible Wind Energy. Archived November 4, 2014.</li><li><a name="s17" id="s17">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20141107172045/http://mikedesouza.com/2012/09/27/feds-discreet-about-foreign-funding-of-climate-skeptics/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Feds discreet about foreign funding of climate skeptics</a>,” Postmedia News, March 12, 2012. Archived November 7, 2014.</li><li><a name="s18" id="s18">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20141111145056/http://blog.heartland.org/2014/11/heartland-institute-experts-comment-on-latest-united-nations-climate-report/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Latest United Nations Climate Report</a>,” Heartland Institute, November 5, 2014.</li><li><a name="s19" id="s19">Wendy Wright. “</a><a href="http://www.christiandaily.com/article/vatican.conference.criticized.for.backing.abortion.and.population.control.politics/50181.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 17.6px;">Vatican Conference Criticized for Backing Abortion and Population Control Politics</a>,” Christian Daily. May 8, 2015.</li><li><a name="s20" id="s20">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150630170131/http://climateconference.heartland.org/speakers/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Speakers</a>,” Heartland Institute. Archived June 30, 2015.</li><li><a name="s21" id="s21">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150715132448/http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/63596672" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Panel 12: Effective Climate Science Communication with Tom Harris, John Coleman, and Michael Bastasch</a>,” Heartland Institute, June 12, 2015. Archived July 14, 2015.</li><li><a name="s22" id="s22">Tom Harris. “</a><a href="http://www.pressreader.com/canada/windsor-star/20150717/281689728497069/TextView" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 17.6px;">Government climate policies wreak damage</a>,” Windsor Star, July 17, 2015.</li><li><a name="s23" id="s23">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150818225332/http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=894:earth-hour-a-serious-mistake-practically-and-symbolically&catid=1:latest" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 17.6px; outline: 0px;">EARTH HOUR A SERIOUS MISTAKE, PRACTICALLY AND SYMBOLICALLY</a>” (Press Release), International Climate Science Coalition, March 27, 2015. Archived August 18, 2015. </li><li><a name="s24" id="s24">Mike Stubbs. “</a><a href="http://www.cjbk.com/interviews/2015/03/27/tom-harris" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 17.6px;">Interviews > Tom Harris</a>,” Newstalk 1290 CJBK, March 27, 2015.</li><li><a name="s25" id="s25">Tom Harris. ”</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160323171945/http://tulsabeacon.com/article/west-virginia-is-not-affecting-sea-levels-in-rhode-island" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">West Virginia is not affecting sea levels in Rhode Island</a>,” Tulsa Beacon, November 6, 2014. </li><li><a name="s26" id="s26">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150818192914/http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=873:icsc-contests-green-party-leader-on-new-un-report" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 17.6px; outline: 0px;">ICSC CONTESTS CANADIAN GREEN PARTY LEADER ON NEW UN CLIMATE REPORT</a>,” International Climate Science Coalition, November 2, 2014. Archived August 18, 2015. </li><li><a name="s27" id="s27">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150818193637/http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=868:climate-protests-promote-moral-travesty&catid=1:latest&Itemid=2" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; line-height: 14.3px;">CLIMATE CHANGE PROTESTS HOPELESSLY MISGUIDED” (Press Release)</a>, International Climate Science Coalition, September 25, 2014.  Archived August 18, 2015.</li><li><a name="s28" id="s28" /><a name="s28" id="s28">Tom Harris. ”</a><a href="http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/images/ny-post-11-08-14.jpg" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 17.6px;">The EPA Vs. The Public and Science</a>,“ New York Post, August 11, 2014.</li><li><a name="s29" id="s29">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150818195458/http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=856:obama-clean-energy-plan-a-dangerous-qsleight-of-handq&catid=1:latest&Itemid=2" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 17.6px; outline: 0px;">OBAMA CLEAN POWER PLAN A DISINGENUOUS 'SLEIGHT OF HAND'</a>,” International Climate Science Coalition, June 3, 2014. Archived August 18, 2015.</li><li><a name="s30" id="s30">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150818200214/http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=851:third-national-climate-assessment-qa-fairy-taleq&catid=1:latest&Itemid=2" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; line-height: 14.3px;">THIRD NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSESSMENT 'A FAIRY TALE'</a>“(Press Release), International Climate Science Coalition, May 13, 2014. Archived August 18, 2015.</li><li><a name="s31" id="s31">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140729003708/http://voiceofrussia.com/us/2014_04_10/Coalition-Claims-Climate-Change-It-s-Actually-A-Good-Thing-3802/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 17.6px; outline: 0px;">Coalition Claims Climate Change 'It’s Actually A Good Thing'</a>,” Voice of Russia US, April 9, 2014. Archived July 29, 2014.</li><li><a id="s32" name="s32">“</a><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/05/17/massachusetts-court-sides-teenagers-historic-climate-victory" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Massachusetts Court Sides with Teenagers in 'Historic' Climate Victory</a>,”CommonDreams, May 17, 2016. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160623173748/http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/05/17/massachusetts-court-sides-teenagers-historic-climate-victory" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Archived June 23, 2016</a>. WebCiteURL: <a href="http://www.webcitation.org/6iU8US96L" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.webcitation.org/6iU8US96L</a></li><li><a id="s33" name="s33">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160623173609/http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2016/06/22/massachusetts-loses-climate-action-case-brought-youths" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Massachusetts Loses Climate Action Case Brought by Youths</a>,” Heartland Institute, June 22, 2016. Archived June 23, 2016. WebCiteURL: <a href="http://www.webcitation.org/6iU8oEXdo" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.webcitation.org/6iU8oEXdo</a></li><li><a id="s34" name="s34">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160623180105/https://www.heartland.org/press-releases/2016/06/13/heartland-institute-experts-react-us-house-passing-anti-carbon-tax-resolut" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Heartland Institute Experts React to U.S. House Passing Anti-Carbon Tax Resolution</a>,” Heartland Institute, June 13, 2016. 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</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 760px; width: 760px;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0.333333em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; letter-spacing: -1px; hyphens: manual; line-height: 1.2; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The Paris Climate Challenge</h1></header><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 760px; width: 760px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In association with the Independent Committee on Geoethics www.<a href="http://geoethic.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;"> www.geoethic.com</a> and the Collectif des Climato Réalistes www.<a href="http://skyfall.fr/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">www.skyfall.fr</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Summary Statement Over thirty years of intense (and extremely expensive) research has totally failed to produce any evidence that human emissions of CO2 are driving climate. CO2 is not a danger to but a benefit for all life on our planet.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We call on governments, NGOs and universities to stop pursuing policy and dogma based ‘evidence’ gathering.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">• That they stop scaremongering.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">• That they dissolve the IPCC and the UNFCCC.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">• That governments focus instead on encouraging means of ensuring that under-developed and developing nations have full access to the cheapest reliable energy (particularly electricity), regardless of whether fossil fuels are used, so as to improve their access to clean water, low pollution cooking facilities and good medical services.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">• That once respected academic institutions and scientific publications put their own houses in order and once again allow the free exchange of scientific ideas and results without prejudice.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">• That those involved in alleged cases of scientific fraud, which have resulted in huge financial costs, causing greater poverty and many deaths among the poorest, be brought before the relevant Court of Law. 10th Dec 2015 Further, more detailed statements, references and videos of presentations at the Conference are available on the website: <a href="http://pcc15.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">www.pcc15.org</a></div><hr style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236); border: 0px; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 2em; width: 608px;" />Watch interviews with some of the PCC 15 organisers, speakers and attendees on <a href="http://windowsontheworld.net/video_type/paris-challenge-to-un-climate-con/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">this edition</a> of ‘Windows on the Wor'[vid <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFE0gBnAci4&feature=emb_logo" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFE0gBnAci4&feature=emb_logo</a>]see presentation videos linked on the the <a href="https://pcc15.org/about/" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" border="border" px="px" margin="margin" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-style: inherit;">schedule for the talks and events</a> at the 2015 Paris Climate Challenge.Please also see the organisers’<a href="http://www.thepostemail.com/2015/11/28/media-advisory-paris-climate-challenge-conference-december-1-3/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;"> latest update </a>at the Post and Email website.In 2009 we laid down the Copenhagen Climate Challenge, when we asked UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to answer <a href="https://pcc15.org/the-ten-questions/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">10 questions about climate</a>. We’re back to ask the same and more questions, and challenge the climate ‘consensus’ in Paris at COP 21 with alternative climate hypotheses. If you have something to say in Paris, we still have places for a few more <a href="https://pcc15.org/about/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">speakers</a>. Take some time to navigate our pages, you can leave a comment if you’d like to say something in response to the articles backing up our 10 questions to Ban Ki-Moon below.<hr style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236); border: 0px; height: 3px; margin: 0px auto 2em; width: 608px;" />His Excellency Ban-Ki Moon, Secretary-General, United Nations, New York, NY. United States of America 8 December 2009.Dear Secretary-General,Climate change science is in a period of ‘negative discovery’ – the more we learn about this exceptionally complex and rapidly evolving field the more we realize how little we know. Truly, the science is NOT settled.Therefore, there is no sound reason to impose expensive and restrictive public policy decisions on the peoples of the Earth without first providing convincing evidence that human activities are causing dangerous climate change beyond that resulting from natural causes. Before any precipitate action is taken, we must have solid observational data demonstrating that recent changes in climate differ substantially from changes observed in the past and are well in excess of normal variations caused by solar cycles, ocean currents, changes in the Earth’s orbital parameters and other natural phenomena.We the undersigned, being qualified in climate-related scientific disciplines, challenge the UNFCCC and supporters of the United Nations Climate Change Conference to produce convincing OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE for their claims of dangerous human-caused global warming and other changes in climate.Projections of possible future scenarios from unproven computer models of climate are not acceptable substitutes for real world data obtained through unbiased and rigorous scientific investigation.Specifically, we challenge supporters of the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused climate change to demonstrate that:<ol style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Variations in global climate in the last hundred years are significantly outside the natural range experienced in previous centuries; </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Humanity’s emissions of carbon dioxide and other ‘greenhouse gases’ (GHG) are having a dangerous impact on global climate;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Computer-based models can meaningfully replicate the impact of all of the natural factors that may significantly influence climate;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sea levels are rising dangerously at a rate that has accelerated with increasing human GHG emissions, thereby threatening small islands and coastal communities;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The incidence of malaria is increasing due to recent climate changes;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Human society and natural ecosystems cannot adapt to foreseeable climate change as they have done in the past;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Worldwide glacier retreat, and sea ice melting in Polar Regions , is unusual and related to increases in human GHG emissions;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Polar bears and other Arctic and Antarctic wildlife are unable to adapt to anticipated local climate change effects, independent of the causes of those changes;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hurricanes, other tropical cyclones and associated extreme weather events are increasing in severity and frequency;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Data recorded by ground-based stations are a reliable indicator of surface temperature trends.</li></ol>It is not the responsibility of ‘climate realist’ scientists to prove that dangerous human-caused climate change is not happening. Rather, it is those who propose that it is, and promote the allocation of massive investments to solve the supposed ‘problem’, who have the obligation to convincingly demonstrate that recent climate change is not of mostly natural origin and, if we do nothing, catastrophic change will ensue. To date, this they have utterly failed to do.Signed by:<h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 400; margin: 1.14286em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both;"><a href="https://pcc15.org/expert-signatories/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Science and Technology Experts Well Qualified in Climate Science </a></h3><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 400; margin: 1.14286em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both;"><a href="https://pcc15.org/associated-signatories/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Science and Technology Experts in Other Related Disciplines</a></h3></div><div>
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</div><div>[The climate deniers: Tom Harris standing at the front, Christopher Monkton in the front row on the right pix]</div><div>
</div>This afternoon, I went along to a fringe event in central Paris put on by the UK climate denier brigade. There were about 15 people – all older white men but for one woman, me, and Brendan Montague, editor of <a href="http://www.desmog.uk/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; text-underline-position: under;">DesmogUK</a>, with whom I'd arrived. Among the small number at <a href="http://pcc15.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; text-underline-position: under;">PCC15</a>, as they called their event, were a number of prominent figures from the movement against the scientific consensus on climate change. Patrick Moore, the controversial former director of Greenpeace who has questioned both whether global warming is man-made, and whether it is dangerous, was leaving as we arrived. UKIP MEP Stuart Agnew was there, as were Christopher Monckton, a prominent climate change denier, and Canadian Tom Harris, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Harris(mechanical_engineer)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; text-underline-position: under;">executive director</a> of the “International Climate Science Coalition” – and former operations director of the “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Park_Group" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; text-underline-position: under;">High Park Group</a>”, a Canadian lobbying company. I was told we'd missed the journalist James Delingpole and Piers Corbyn (MD of WeatherAction and brother of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn)..Brendan was there to button-hole Christopher Monckton – I'll link to his interview as soon as its up. Meanwhile I had a nice cup of tea with a couple of folks at the back of the room, before settling down to the final session of the conference, at which they discussed their key messages to present to the media. I'm not quite sure why they did this with two journalists in the room. In any case, I took copious notes, which are copied below.The session was chaired by Tom Harris, and Christopher Monckton sat at the front of the audience and said more than anyone else. Each headline message they discussed is in bold, and the things people said about them are written below. The exact wording is sometimes mine rather than than theirs, but the messages are the same. My notes on their comments are in italics.<h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-position: auto; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; break-after: avoid;">1) Focus on adaptation</h2><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-position: auto; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; break-after: avoid;" /><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-position: auto; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; break-after: avoid;">2) The carbon cycle</h2>- “Carbon moves much faster than the UN tell us”- Carbon dioxide moves through the atmosphere in 4-5 years. (not 100 years)- CO2 is absorbed much faster (by plants) than the UN say.- Mean absorption time is seven years.- “Residence time”.[There seemed to be some discussion between Monckton and another man on the precise time periods relating to the carbon cycle, hence the different figures.<h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-position: auto; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; break-after: avoid;">3) CO2 is beneficial to the biosphere</h2>- “The life-giving gas on the planet”.- “Greening the deserts”.<h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-position: auto; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; break-after: avoid;">4) Lack of significant problems of ocean acidification</h2>- The reducing pH in the oceans is not a threat- “We don't want to admit that it (oceanic pH) is reducing because it's not reduced by much” - Monckton- “Wide variations (in pH) are easily tolerated by marine life” (this was based on one apparent study from the basins of a couple of rivers in Brazil)- “Ocean acidification is a misnomer”- “The ocean has never been acidic in the geologic record”- “The ocean can only become acidic if the world runs out of rocks”.<h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-position: auto; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; break-after: avoid;">5) Solar factors</h2>- Solar factors are the major drivers of climate change and grossly overwhelm the human contribution.<h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-position: auto; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; break-after: avoid;">6) We want to see an increasing use of fossil fuel, especially the least expensive, coal</h2>- If you don't have electricity, your life span will be 10-15 years shorter.- Tens of millions are being killed every year because of the war on coal (Monckton).- “War on coal” is resulting in tens of millions of deaths.- “Depriving the poor of inexpensive fuel".- Vast loss of life.<h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-position: auto; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; break-after: avoid;">7) The relative insignificance of the human contribution to atmospheric composition</h2>- To the nearest 10th of 1% there is no CO2 in the air at all. (Monckton)- The lack of warming for the past 18+ years supports the hypothesis<h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-position: auto; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; break-after: avoid;">8) The solutions to the supposed climate crisis are far more damaging than the possible problem</h2>- Attempts at mitigation of climate change, even if it were a problem on the scale they say it is, would cost 10-100 times what they say it is.<h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-position: auto; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; break-after: avoid;">9) Global warming is a natural consequence of deglaciation</h2>- There's no consensus that most of the warming pre-1950 was anthropogenic, and therefore no consensus future warming is dangerous.<h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-position: auto; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; break-after: avoid;">10) In a warming world, extreme storms reduce</h2>- For the last 150 years, there has been no increase in hurricane/cyclone activity- There's been an increase in sea ice.- There's been an increase in East Antartica land ice- There's been a decrease in tornadoes in the USA- There is information coming out from insurance companies saying that storms cost more. The same level of storminess is causing more damage because there's more people and more infrastructure. Over the last 100 year, there's been a 13x increase in infrastructure on the world's coasts. <h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-position: auto; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; break-after: avoid;">11) Wind turbines</h2>- In most operating conditions, wind turbines cause more CO2 than coal (Monckton)- Wind turbines cause far more problems for wildlife and humans (than fossil fuels).<h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-position: auto; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; break-after: avoid;">12) Policy makers & mainstream media have been deceived into thinking there is only one side</h2>- They need to open the door to people who have been excluded (ie climate sceptics).- The only way this will be brought to a resolution is through an independent judicial inquiry. (Someone proposed that they specifically say this should happen in the Hague, and Monckton said that “the other side would be extremely reluctant” to be cross-examined).<h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-position: auto; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; break-after: avoid;">13) Sea level</h2>- The data show a mean sea level rise over the past few decades that is indistinguishable from zero (0-1mm per year). Any increase over that which has been reported is a result of tampering with the data, because of, for example, isostatic adjustment (land rising back up slowly after the last ice-age).<h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-position: auto; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; break-after: avoid;">14) “We're not climate change deniers”</h2>- “We accept that there is such a thing as the greenhouse effect” - Monckton- “Yes, if you add CO2 to the atmosphere, it would cause some warming – there are some on the fringes who would deny that, but it's tactically efficacious for us to accept that.” - MoncktonMonckton suggested that they should accept that the greenhouse effect is real. There was a fair amount of disagreement in the room. The chair said “I'm trying to appeal to left wing journalists”. For a moment they lost control as a number of people shouted out their various objections. The conclusion?: “The Greenhouse Effect – the debate continues”.<h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-position: auto; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; break-after: avoid;">15) People today are experiencing problems due to natural climate change</h2>They cannot get the help they need due to all this focus on the distant future.<h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-position: auto; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; break-after: avoid;">16) Working people's jobs are being destroyed</h2>- There is in fact no realistic danger for generations yet unborn, but since real harm is being done to today's generations, it's time someone spoke up for those poor people and those poor countries being denied electricity and adaptation support.- There is no need for any national or international action to make global warming go away. The whole match is superfluous. It has its own damaging environmental footprint. (The conversation then moved back to the evils of wind farms).<h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-position: auto; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; break-after: avoid;">17) There is no policy that is better than doing nothing</h2><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; text-underline-position: auto; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem; break-after: avoid;">18) We don't need any middle man if we wish to help people in foreign countries</h2>- If individual nations wish to give money to less developed countries to help them get energy structures, or to cope with natural climate disasters, we do not need the UN.  There was quite a lot of general UN hatred in the room. One man – a lawyer - was there because he'd been invited to speak about his court cases against the UN.- We don't need a UN. (There was some disagreement about this)- Countries should withdraw from the UNFCCC immediately. (They all agreed on this).- If for any 20 years, temperatures do not increase by more than 0.5 degrees the whole apparatus will be wrapped up.Also, at one point, Phillip Foster, an English minister who seemed to be the event organiser, suggested they say they aren't funded by the coal industry. Tom Harris responded: “I don't think the funding issue is something we should say anything about... I don't think that funding is something we should get into... 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