Category: Global Warming

Supporting Cap-and-Trade “Almost Demented”

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"Charlie Munger, the second in command behind Warren Buffet at Berkshire Hathaway, says in an interview on CNBC that it's 'almost demented' to pass cap-and-trade given the state of our economy." So reports Tom Borelli, director of the National Center ...
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Outrage of the Day: The Costly Waxman-Markey Global Warming Tax

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Last Tuesday, Representatives Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA) unveiled proposed legislation that, if adopted, would kill (at best) hundreds of thousands, more likely, millions of jobs and put a substantial and highly-regressive global warming tax on every American ...
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The New Byrd-Hagel

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The Senate has voted 89-8 to oppose cap-and-trade if it raises electricity or gasoline prices. Of course, cap-and-trade would raise electricity and gasoline prices, so the Senate has effectively just gone on record 89-8 against cap-and-trade. In 1997, the Senate ...
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The California Drought’s Congressional “Kangaroo Court”

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The kangaroo waits for the hearing to begin. The kangaroo listens attentively to hearing proceedings. The National Center for Public Policy Research's Jeff Temple and Devon Carlin are seated to the kangaroo's left. Devon Carlin provides a report on the ...
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Does President Obama Have a Mandate For His Pledge to Cut U.S. Carbon Emissions?

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Barack Obama doesn't have a mandate for his global warming policies. He doesn't even have a mandate from his most fervent supporters. President Obama has repeatedly reiterated his support for an aggressive effort to reduce U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases ...
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Congress Blowing Its Next Bubble

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Senior Fellow Tom Borelli has an op-ed in the D.C. Examiner: "Congress, corporate lobbyists creating Green Bubble." It begins: With President Barack Obama and his allies in Congress pushing for a cap-and-trade regulatory program to reduce greenhouse gases, the future ...
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Outrage of the Day: Al Gore Claims Global Warming Theory is Not a Theory

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Al Gore on the global warming theory not being a theory: "The scientific community has gone through this chapter and verse. We have long since passed the time when we should pretend this is a 'on the one hand, on ...
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Tom Borelli Speaks With G. Gordon Liddy About Taxpayer-Subsidized Cap-and-Trade Lobbying Campaign

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Image via Wikipedia By David Almasi: Tom Borelli, co-director with Steve Milloy of the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project, will be a guest on the syndicated G. Gordon Liddy show today, Wednesday, March 4 at 10:30 ...
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Carol Browner: Dictating Climate Policy Like Caesar of Old

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An op-ed by David Ridenour on President Obama's choice of Carol Browner to serve as a so-called "climate czar" has appeared in newspapers nationwide, including this version from Investor's Business Daily: Climate Czar Will Reign Like Caesar Of Old By ...
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No Coal! No Oil! No Power! No Heat!

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Anti-global warming protester uses a "Stop Global Warming" sign as an ice scraper at rally at the U.S. Capitol coal-fired power plant Monday "We don't want the world to boil, no coal, no oil!" There was no chance, despite the ...
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