European Academy of Environmental Affairs
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The European Academy for Environmental Affairs (also known as: European Academy of Environmental Affairs, is a private organization which gave its label for the Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change, a SEPP-initiated document in which some scientists argue against global warming
Global warming
Global warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades...

 theories.

In 1993 this Academy held a conference in Mannheim
Mannheim
Mannheim is a city in southwestern Germany. With about 315,000 inhabitants, Mannheim is the second-largest city in the Bundesland of Baden-Württemberg, following the capital city of Stuttgart....

 under the title "Globale Erwärmung - Tatsache oder Behauptung?" (Global warming—fact or fiction?). http://www.iwoe.de/Klimakatastrophe/darst4.html

On http://www.iwoe.de/EuropAkademie.html there is a list of textbooks on ecology
Ecology
Ecology is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount , number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems...

 issued by the Academy.
Founder and president of the Academy was the late Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Helmut Metzner
Helmut Metzner
Helmut Metzner was an eminent plant physiologist, Professor of Biochemical Plant Physiology at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, the founder of the European Academy of Environmental Affairs and a co-founder of the Weikersheim Think Tank.- Life and Works :Metzner studied biology, physics and...

 (1925-1999), who was professor for chemical plant physiology
Plant physiology
Plant physiology is a subdiscipline of botany concerned with the functioning, or physiology, of plants. Closely related fields include plant morphology , plant ecology , phytochemistry , cell biology, and molecular biology.Fundamental processes such as photosynthesis, respiration, plant nutrition,...

. http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/qvo/Tun/TUN95-25.html, http://www.sepp.org/weekwas/1999/Dec25.htm.

An article by Metzner about his view on climate change can be found on the right-wing website konservativ.de http://www.konservativ.de/epoche/135/epo_135j.htm. He was accused of having strong connections to the Studienzentrum Weikersheim
Studienzentrum Weikersheim
Studienzentrum Weikersheim is a conservative and christian democratic German political think tank, that was founded in 1979 by Hans Filbinger, Helmut Metzner and others on Schloss Weikersheim in Germany.-Presidents:...

, a right-wing think-tank in Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...

. http://www.projektwerkstatt.de/oepunkte/althefte/ausgaben/01/54_clinton.html

The Academy is recognized in a consultative function http://www.ngo.coe.int/English%20Site/Consultative_status/consultative_status.htm by the Council of Europe
Council of Europe
The Council of Europe is an international organisation promoting co-operation between all countries of Europe in the areas of legal standards, human rights, democratic development, the rule of law and cultural co-operation...

 http://www.ngo.coe.int/English%20Site/Consultative_status/list%20of%20NGOs/NGOs%20list%202001%20web.htm

There are no webpages of the Academy, and there are some hints that is now defunct. It may have ceased operation with the death of Metzner
Helmut Metzner
Helmut Metzner was an eminent plant physiologist, Professor of Biochemical Plant Physiology at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, the founder of the European Academy of Environmental Affairs and a co-founder of the Weikersheim Think Tank.- Life and Works :Metzner studied biology, physics and...

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