Category: Global Warming

Kyoto Global Warming Treaty Losing Support Around the World While Thriving in U.S. Senate, by Tom Randall

National Policy Analysis #412 /
The U.S. Senate has packed its energy bill with massive new "greenhouse gas" and "global warming provisions," even though the Kyoto Protocol, commonly referred to as the global warming treaty, is all but dead as leaders in nation after nation ...
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A Change in Climate on Climate Change? Don’t Count on It, by Tom Randall

National Policy Analysis #416 /
"Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing mean surface air temperature and subsurface ocean temperature to rise."1 That line and a few others in the Bush Administration's recent rambling, confusing and often contradictory ...
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Climate Change and California Assembly Bill 1058: Is it Hype? by Willie Soon, Ph.D.

National Policy Analysis #417 /
The fear of any catastrophic effects of man-made greenhouse gases continues to terrorize Californians. Assembly Bill 1058, authored by Assemblywoman Fran Pavley (D-Woodland Hills), "instructs" the California Air Resources Board to come up with regulations that allow "maximum and cost-effective" ...
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Kyoto Treaty Language Attached to Senate Energy Bill, by Gretchen Randall

Ten Second Response /
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

The Relief Report /
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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