Don’t fret. You still have plenty of time left to secure your place at the second annual International Conference on Climate Change to be held in New York, 8-10 March 2009. For any of you who are not yet familiar with this venerable event, this conference is the largest coming together of climate change sceptics anywhere outside of, well, the internet. Organised and sponsored by the Heartland Institute which says its mission is to ‘discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems’ and which Milton Friedman once called ‘a highly effective libertarian institute’, the conference will be asking whether global warming ‘was ever really a crisis’. ‘Unfortunately, politicians respond to the loudest and best-funded interest groups, not to the voices of scientists or the average Joe. So they are in a tizzy about ‘doing something’ to ‘stop global warming’¦As we did in March 2008, we will bring together hundreds of scientists, economists, and policy experts to explore areas overlooked or even deliberately hidden by the alarmists who dominate the public debate concerning climate change.’ Sounds fun, doesn’t it? There’s nothing quite like putting tizzying politicians right. But best of all, […]