Category: Global Warming

“Meeting the Climate Challenge”: Left-of-Center Groups Warn of Impending Doom

National Policy Analysis #522 /
Whether you love them or would just love to leave them out in the cold, enthusiastic advocates of the global warming theory are not known for an exquisite sense of timing. A year ago, former Vice President Al Gore picked ...
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Michael Crichton’s State of Fear: Climate Change in the Cineplex?

National Policy Analysis #524 /
If you count the two "sequels" spawned by the original Jurassic Park, no less than 13 of Michael Crichton's page-turning thrillers have delighted moviegoers around the globe. From The Andromeda Strain in 1971 through 2003's Timeline, films based on Crichton ...
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Spinning Global Warming

National Policy Analysis #523 /
The Peter Principle appears to have caught up with John Podesta, former Clinton chief-of-staff and frequent talking head on Crossfire, CNN's recently-cancelled tribute to the arrogant and inane. Devised by the clever Canadian management guru Laurence J. Peter, the Peter ...
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Associated Press & Global Warming: Never Let Facts Get in the Way of a Good Theory

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BACKGROUND: The Associated Press has recently run two global warming stories by AP Special Correspondent Charles P. Hanley that misrepresent objective facts about climate, apparently for the purpose of leading readers to believe that human activities are causing the planet ...
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Eight States Decide to Set National Global Warming Policy

National Policy Analysis #516 /
The attorneys general of eight states -- California, Connecticut, Iowa, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin -- have filed a lawsuit against five of the nation's largest electricity producers. The attorneys general claim their intent is to ...
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Russia Better Off Without Kyoto

National Policy Analysis #517 /
It is difficult to imagine that someone who maneuvered to the top of the KGB would fail to recognize his own self-interest. That's why it's hard to credit recent reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin has changed his mind and ...
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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

National Policy Analysis #512 /
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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