Category: Global Warming

Kyoto Treaty Language Attached to Senate Energy Bill, by Gretchen Randall

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BACKGROUND: Before passing its energy bill, the Senate attached an amendment setting up a greenhouse gas database. Participating companies would voluntarily report their reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. If, after five years, less than 60 percent of greenhouse gas emissions ...
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Questions and Answers on Global Warming

1. Is global warming occurring? Have the forecasts of global warming been confirmed by actual measurements? There is no proof that significant man-made global warming is taking place. The computer models used in U.N. studies say the first area to ...
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Media Misconceptions Help Lead to Public Fear of Global Warming, by Christopher Burger

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BACKGROUND: The Washington Post repeatedly has reported that areas of the U.S. will warm extensively in the coming century. On December 17, 2001, for example, citing a report commissioned by Congress, the Post reported that the Northeast (New England and ...
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Bush’s Global Warming Plan a Mix of Giveaways and Research, by Gretchen Randall

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BACKGROUND: President Bush has announced his voluntary plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 18 percent by 2010. The initiative would allot $4.6 billion in total climate spending over the next five years including $3 billion in funds for more research ...
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Holding Global Warming Forecasters Accountable; Yucca Mountain

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Contents: Let's Hold Global Warming Forecasters Accountable... Brazilian-Style Opposition to Yucca Mountain is About Nuclear Power, Not Public Safety Let's Hold Global Warming Forecasters Accountable... Brazilian-Style According to the Detroit Free Press, Luiz Carlos Austin, a television meteorologist in Rio ...
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Stay the Course: President Bush Should Continue Sticking with Science on Global Warming, by Tom Randall

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BACKGROUND: In what has to be classified as a major blunder, the President's Council of Economic Advisors and other White House advisors are now indicating that global warming is a problem, needlessly painting the President into a corner. Dan Lashof ...
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Premature Death: A Cautionary Energy Tale, by Tom Randall

National Policy Analysis #395 /
A young woman who didn't care for my opinion that energy should be cheap and plentiful confronted me one night on a Chicago public television talk show. Insisting that air pollution from burning fossil fuels was killing Americans and that ...
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New Research Indicates the Earth May Be Cooling

National Policy Analysis #388 /
After a decade of warnings that the Earth's temperature may be rapidly warming, and that this supposed warming may result in a surge of catastrophic flooding and lethal storms, it now appears that we may be in for global cooling ...
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Let’s Hold Global Warming Forecasters Accountable… Brazilian-Style, by Tom Randall

National Policy Analysis #390 /
According to the Detroit Free Press,1 Luiz Carlos Austin, a television meteorologist in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is facing criminal charges and a possible six month jail sentence. His crime: a bad weather forecast. Austin had predicted severe weather in ...
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Global Warming: Administration Could Snatch Defeat From the Jaws of Victory, by Tom Randall

National Policy Analysis #392 /
In its annual report to the President, the White House Council of Economic Advisers seems to be setting Mr. Bush up to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory on the global warming issue. "The uncertainty surrounding the science of ...
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