The conference held at New York's conservative think tank the Heartland Institute had about 600 attendees who at the end concluded that the global warming theory has more to do with politics rather than scientific evidence. 

 

It is not true that the global warming process is caused by what people do on their planet, the conferences participants said. There is no convincing evidence that high levels of carbon dioxide are causing the planet’s warming. 

 

Heartland Institute head, Joseph Bast, said the causes of global warming still aren’t proven facts. “More prominent scientists are coming out saying global warming is not a crisis, that the question of what causes it and how extensive it's going to be are wide open in the scientific community," Bast said.

 

Mr. Bast underlined that the idea of this conference is to provide a forum for scientists and skeptics to speak their minds on this issue.

 

This year, numerous governments are considering further taxing greenhouse-gas emissions. In the United States, the Obama administration said it plans to set the greenhouse-gas emissions back to their 1990s levels. This was a very strong reason for the participants at the International Conference on Climate Change in NY to gather and see what can be done to stop this or at least limit it.