Roger Helmer is a Conservative MEP in the East Midlands and chairman of the Freedom Association. He writes here about a recent meeting of climate realists in New York, where he is pictured with the Czech President, Vaclav Klaus.

I've just got back to Strasbourg from the Heartland Institute's International Climate Conference in New York (Subtitled "Global Warming: was it ever Really a Crisis?"), which brought together around 800 scientists, politicians and commentators from across the USA and around the world, all of a broadly climate-realist disposition.


This was the second Manhattan Climate Conference, and 2009 attracted about double the attendance of the 2008 event.

We had an impressive array of scientists, including Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT; Professor Fred Singer (University of Virginia); Ross McKitrick (who exposed the IPCC's Hockey Stick graph, widely seen as the most discredited artefact in the history of science); Professor Tom Segalstad of the University of Oslo; Professor David Douglas (University of Rochester); Prof Bob Carter of James Cook University of Queensland, Australia; and Benny Peiser of Liverpool John Moores University, who publishes CCNet. Not impressed yet? Google them and check their CVs! Plus a host of others.

I had been invited to speak on the EU's experience of Emissions Trading (or as people at the Conference called it, "Tax'n'Trade"). I explained what a disaster it had been, drawing heavily on the excellent work of Open Europe in a series of papers. My speech is available online here.

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