"Groundbreaking" Conference Challenges Global Warming Consensus As New Data Bucks Warming Trend 

In what is being called a "grounbreaking conference," hundreds gathered in New York City for the "2008 International Conference on Climate Change." This event featured presentations by leaders of the movement that is challenging the AlGore man-made global warming consensus.

The "trump card" that Gore and others always play is that there is "consensus" in the scientific community that:
a--The earth is warming at a dangerous pace
b--That man is the primary cause of this warming
c--That man can do something to save the planet  from the man-made warming

As it turns out, there is not as much "consensus" as Gore would have us believe. Here's a good report from Sen. Inhofe's website that references some 400 scientists who do not share the Gore consensus. It also talks about the "horror stories" of intimidation against those who oppose the consensus.

More inconvenient truths for AlGore
AlGore's global warming thesis is being challenged by the reality of a 13-month trend of cooling temperatures and more evidence that sunspot activity (and the sun in general) is more likely the real player in fluctuations in the earth's temperature. Here's a good blog posting that covers these points. The author of this blog also is leading an effort to monitor the weather monitoring stations across the country. Read this Glenn Beck interview on how weather stations are out of compliance.  Then note that these problems are with U.S. monitoring stations which are the best in the world! 

 Grassfire will be launching a formal petition opposiong the global warming consensus and more specifically the crippling new "Cap and Trade" scheme that is now bubbling up in Congress that will turn the air into a commodity controlled and taxed by the government. I can't think of many worse ideas than that. The end of freedom as we know it can't be far behind...

Bizarre headline of the day:
"Global Warming Not Always To Blame For Extreme Winters"
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