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The '''Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change''' is a statement made in 1995, seeking to refute the fact that there is a [[scientific consensus]] on the [[global warming]] issue.<ref name=dec1995>{{cite web |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19981206090752/http://www.sepp.org/leipzig.html |title=The Leipzig Declaration On Global Climate Change |url=http://www.sepp.org/leipzig.html |archivedate=1998-12-06 |publisher=SEPP}}</ref>
It was issued in an updated form in 1997 and revised again in 2005,<ref name=dec2005>{{cite web |url=http://sepp.org/policy%20declarations/LDrevised.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060827154912/http://www.sepp.org/policy%20declarations/LDrevised.html |archivedate=2006-08-27|title=The Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change (2005, revised) |publisher=SEPP}}</ref>  claiming to have been signed by 80 scientists and 25 television news meteorologists while the posting of 33 additional signatories was pending verification that those 33 additional scientists still agreed with the statement.<ref name=Signatories2006>{{cite web|title=Signatories to the Leipzig Declaration|url=http://www.sepp.org/policy%20declarations/LDsigs.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060928122018/http://www.sepp.org/policy%20declarations/LDsigs.html|archivedate=2006-09-28 |publisher=SEPP}}</ref> 
All versions of the declaration, which asserts that there is no scientific consensus about the importance of [[global warming]] and opposes the recommendations of the [[Kyoto Protocol]], were penned by [[Fred Singer]]'s [[Science and Environmental Policy Project]] (SEPP).

The first declaration was based on a 9–10 November 1995 conference, organized by [[Helmut Metzner]] in [[Leipzig, Germany]].<ref>{{cite web |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20021218065426/http://www.sepp.org/weekwas/1999/Dec25.htm |title=Obituary in "The Week That Was|date=25 Dec 1999 |publisher=SEPP |url=http://www.sepp.org/weekwas/1999/Dec25.htm |archivedate=2002-12-18}}</ref> The second declaration was additionally based on a successor conference in [[Bonn, Germany]] on 10–11 November 1997. The conferences were cosponsored by SEPP and the [[European Academy for Environmental Affairs]] and titled ''International Symposium on the Greenhouse Controversy''.

Today, the declaration is regarded as [[disinformation]] campaign, exercised by the [[Climate change denial|climate change denial movement]] using the fake-expert-strategy, to [[Fear, uncertainty and doubt|cast doubt]] on the [[Scientific opinion on climate change|scientific consensus about global warming]].<ref>John Cook et al: ''Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence''. PLOS ONE 2017, {{doi|10.1371/journal.pone.0175799}}.</ref><ref>G. Thomas Farmer, John Cook: Climate Change Science. A modern Synthesis. Volume 1 – The Physical Climate. Dordrecht 2013, p. 450.</ref><ref>[[James L. Powell|Lawrence Powell, James]]: The Inquisition of Climate Science. New York 2012, p. 11-12.</ref>