Category: Climate Change

Hans Blix Worries… About Global Warming

Ten Second Response /
DATE: March 15, 2003 BACKGROUND: In an interview with MTV dated March 13, U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said: "On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other ...
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Winter Weather Advisory: Snowstorms Aren’t Evidence of Global Warming

National Policy Analysis #455 /
"The average American in the upper Midwest and the Northeast... [is following] the wind-chill factor more avidly than sports statistics... Floridians... [are] watching their crops freeze..." Another complaint about this year's weather? No. It's a description of the winter of ...
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Nonsense By Any Other Name: Calling Carbon Dioxide A Pollutant Doesn’t Make It A Pollutant, by Gerald Marsh

National Policy Analysis #458 /
It is becoming increasingly fashionable to maintain that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, one that should be regulated under the Clean Air Act. Seven Northeastern states have even announced their intention to sue the administration for its failure to regulate ...
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Climate Change 2001: A Critique, by Gerald Marsh

National Policy Analysis #452 /
(Note: This critique of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report "Climate Change 2001" is an update of "Global Warming Primer" by the same author. A pdf of this critique can be found here.  The "Global Warming Primer" ...
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McCain and Lieberman Push for New Anti-Global Warming Legislation

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BACKGROUND: Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Joe Lieberman (D-CT) plan to introduce a new anti-global warming bill this week instituting a so-called "cap and trade" system for greenhouse gas emissions. McCain, incoming chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, has scheduled ...
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McCain and Lieberman Join the Ranks of Ecoactivists With New Legislation on Global Warming

National Policy Analysis #446 /
It's a peculiar and pervasive phenomenon in the nation's capital. Invent a major problem where none exists, then propose a complicated and costly solution, create yet another bureaucratic fiefdom and hand out scads of federal grant money and patronage positions ...
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House Rejects Senate’s Greenhouse Gas Provisions in Energy Bill, by Tom Randall

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BACKGROUND: On Thursday, October 3, conferees from the U.S. House of Representatives voted 15-2 to reject the "greenhouse gas" provisions in the Senate version of the energy bill, which is now in conference. The Senate provisions would establish a voluntary ...
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New York Times Sounds False Climate Alarm Once Again: Bush, Not Times, Has It Right On Global Warming, by Tom Randall

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BACKGROUND: The New York Times, a leader in false reporting about climate change, has struck again. The paper's August 18 article by Amy Cortese, which reads like an advertisement for insurance companies wishing to sell climate change policies, flatly and ...
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Kyoto: Good Reviews for Bad Rubbish

National Policy Analysis #428 /
You can't always tell if something is good by its reviews. Hitchcock's classic movie Vertigo was called "farfetched nonsense" by the New Yorker. Time called it "another Hitchcock-and-bull story in which the mystery is not so much who done it ...
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A Global Warming Primer, by Gerald Marsh (updated)

National Policy Analysis #420 /
(Please note: This is an updated version of National Policy Analysis #316 of the same title, published September 2001.  A pdf version of this updated version can be found here.) Introduction The purpose of this primer is to help the ...
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