Category: Climate Change

Now They Want to Be Caesar: Eight State Attorneys General Decide to End-Run Legislatures, Set National Global Warming Policies Themselves

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BACKGROUND: According to a press release announcing the events, "New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, New Jersey Attorney General Peter C. Harvey, Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch, Vermont Attorney General William H. Sorrell and ...
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Hey Roland, Wanna Buy the Brooklyn Bridge?

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National Center executive director David W. Almasi is critical of "The Day After Tomorrow" director's muse: In an interview with SCI FI Wire, "The Day After Tomorrow" director Roland Emmerich admits he previously pledged never to make another disaster movie, ...
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Don’t Trust Hollywood Science: Global Warming Wouldn’t Cause a New Ice Age

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Promoters of the global warming disaster movie "The Day After Tomorrow" must believe most of us were born yesterday. As most movie fans know, the much-hyped film focuses on a global apocalypse of cataclysmic floods, tornadoes, storms and blizzards that ...
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Notice They Don’t Recommend Taxing Private Planes

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A script for a radio broadcast I ran across in the course of my work: Air Traffic Contributes to Global Warming January 14, 1999 You've heard that cars add to global warming — they burn fossil fuels, so they pump ...
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Clarity Needed on Clear Skies

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Comments from NCPPR research associate Eric Chapman: Bruce Barcott's New York Times Magazine cover story on April 4, 2004, "Changing All the Rules," criticized the Bush Administration for its failure to pass the President's energy bill and said the President's ...
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Kyoto Protocol is a “Death Treaty,” Says Russian Official

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Andrei Illiaronov, an influential Russian economist close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, has come under fire for saying: "'The Kyoto Protocol is a death treaty, no matter how strange this seems, because its main purpose is to stifle economic growth ...
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Some Predictions Don’t Come True

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John Ray at the Dissecting Leftism blog makes an interesting observation today. He compares reporting on AIDS in the 80s and early 90s (specifically, that the disease would ravage the American heterosexual community) to the global warming scare today. Yes, ...
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Global Warming: Why Can’t the Mainstream Press Get Even Basic Facts Right?

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BACKGROUND: The Associated Press ran a global warming story1 this past weekend that makes the following statements: "Carbon dioxide, the gas largely blamed for global warming, has reached record-high levels in the atmosphere after growing at an accelerated pace in ...
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Washington Post Slams Bush Global Warming Policy, But There’s More to the Story

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BACKGROUND: The Washington Post on January 1 ran a page one article questioning the usefulness of the Bush Administration's reliance on voluntary programs to reduce emissions of so-called "greenhouse gases." The article, which ran in other newspapers nationwide, begins: "Two ...
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Hispanics Would Be Hard-Hit by McCain-Lieberman Global Warming Proposal

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BACKGROUND: Management Information Services, Inc., a national economics firm with a client roster representing both business and environmental organizations,1 has released a study showing that passage of S. 139, the McCain-Lieberman global warming bill, would impede, or even reverse, the ...
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