Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-04-10-Speech-4-026"
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"Mr President, the EU is proud of its commitment to the IPCC’s recommendations on how to combat global warming by persuading its Member States to inject massive funding into carbon-emission control projects. But have you backed the wrong horse?
Last month many eminent scientists and climatologists from around the world met in New York and after two days of serious discussions issued the Manhattan Declaration, which states categorically that there is no convincing evidence that CO
emissions from modern industrial activity have in the past, are now, or will in the future cause catastrophic climate change; and that adaptation, as needed, is massively more cost-effective than any attempted mitigation. They recommend that world leaders reject the views expressed by the United Nations IPCC, as well as popular but misguided works such as
and that all taxes, regulations and other interventions intended to reduce emissions of CO
be abandoned forthwith.
Finally, Lord Lawson, who is a member of the House of Lords Select Committee on Climate Change, says this: ‘The average temperature in Helsinki is less than 5°C. In Singapore it is in excess of 27°C – a difference of 22°. If humans can successfully cope with that, it is not immediately apparent why they should not be able to adapt to a change of some 3° when they are given 100 years in which to do so.’
I recommend that you take advice given in the Manhattan Declaration."@en1
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