"Global warming" is not a global crisis

We, the scientists and researchers in climate and related fields,
economists, policymakers, and business leaders, assembled at Times
Square, New York City, participating in the 2008 International
Conference on Climate Change,

Resolving that scientific questions should be evaluated solely by the
scientific method;

Affirming that global climate has always changed and always will,
independent of the actions of humans, and that carbon dioxide (CO2)
is not a pollutant but rather a necessity for all life;

Recognising that the causes and extent of recently-observed climatic
change are the subject of intense debates in the climate science
community and that oft-repeated assertions of a supposed 'consensus'
among climate experts are false;

Affirming that attempts by governments to legislate costly
regulations on industry and individual citizens to encourage CO2
emission reduction will slow development while having no appreciable
impact on the future trajectory of global climate change. Such
policies will markedly diminish future prosperity and so reduce the
ability of societies to adapt to inevitable climate change, thereby
increasing, not decreasing human suffering;

Noting that warmer weather is generally less harmful to life on Earth
than colder:

Hereby declare:

That current plans to restrict anthropogenic CO2 emissions are a
dangerous misallocation of intellectual capital and resources that
should be dedicated to solving humanity's real and serious problems.

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.

That attempts by governments to inflict taxes and costly regulations
on industry and individual citizens with the aim of reducing
emissions of CO2 will pointlessly curtail the prosperity of the West
and progress of developing nations without affecting climate.

That adaptation as needed is massively more cost-effective than any
attempted mitigation, and that a focus on such mitigation will divert
the attention and resources of governments away from addressing the
real problems of their peoples.

That human-caused climate change is not a global crisis.

Now, therefore, we recommend -

That world leaders reject the views expressed by the United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as popular, but
misguided works such as "An Inconvenient Truth".

That all taxes, regulations, and other interventions intended to
reduce emissions of CO2 be abandoned forthwith.

Agreed at New York, 4 March 2008.