Category: Global Warming

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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Australia Set to Reject Global Warming Treaty, by Gretchen Randall

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BACKGROUND: Reuters News Service reports that Australian Prime Minister John Howard said today his government will not ratify the Kyoto Treaty because of the economic impact it would have on jobs there. Howard said, "For us to ratify the protocol ...
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Bush Sets Record Straight with Repudiation of Global Warming Report

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President George W. Bush is being attacked by conservative pundits and praised by the leadership of environmental groups because a just-released document from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been incorrectly reported by the media as endorsing the concept ...
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Bush Administration Report on Climate Change Baffles Supporters, by Gretchen Randall

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BACKGROUND: The Bush Administration's EPA released a report, "U.S. Climate Action Report 2002" quietly last week stating that greenhouse gas emissions have "likely affected the global climate system." To many this is a turn-about in policy by the Administration since ...
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Bush Repudiates “Bureaucratic” Report on Global Warming, by Gretchen Randall

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BACKGROUND: President Bush has reportedly called the recent EPA report that says human activities cause global warming "nothing more than a product of government bureaucracy." According to a Reuters News Service report by Tom Doggett, the President has no plans ...
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