Category: Global Warming

President Bush Must Kill Kyoto Global Warming Treaty and Oppose Efforts to Regulate Carbon Dioxide, by John Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #328 /
Now that Bill Clinton and Al Gore have vacated the White House, President George W. Bush should seize the opportunity to finally rid the nation of one of the former Administration's most unwanted and potentially costly legacies - the Kyoto ...
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Costly Economics and Faulty Science Kill the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty, by John Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #314 /
The Kyoto treaty is dead. Negotiated by the Clinton Administration in December 1997, the Kyoto treaty would have required the United States and other major industrialized nations to make economically-drastic reductions in carbon dioxide emissions to combat the alleged threat ...
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With the Kyoto Treaty Dead, Environmentalists Take Incremental Approach, By John K. Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #316 /
For the moment, Americans can breathe a sigh of relief that the Kyoto global warming treaty will not turn their standard of living upside down - but only for a moment. Negotiated by the Clinton Administration in December 1997, Kyoto ...
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Global Warming Rules Make This Black Man Hot Under the Collar, by John Meredith

New Visions Commentary /
Fear that the world is warming because of industrialization is a theory with no factual basis. What we really need to fear are the policies being pushed to stop it. These new regulations will hurt everyone, especially those struggling to ...
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Choking Black Prosperity, by Syd Gernstein

National Policy Analysis #306 /
At a cost of somewhere between $25 and $35 billion in taxpayer dollars, Congress passed the Clean Air Act Amendments in 1990.1 It is the mother of hundreds of regulatory laws across America that are supposed to address air pollution ...
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Treaty to Combat Unproven Global Warming Threat Would Hurt Americans’ Standard of Living, by John K. Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #309 /
Engaging in the global warming debate is often akin to a journey into the surreal. Proponents of the theory that man-made greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, are dangerously heating up the planet urge politicians and the American people to support ...
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Clean Air Regulations Harmful to Minority Economic Gains, by Syd Gernstein

National Policy Analysis #303 /
Black Americans have made remarkable progress in recent decades. The income levels of black households have tripled over the past 24 years, and the number of black-owned businesses more than doubled between 1987 and 1997. If these trends hold, racial ...
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How the Environmental Protection Agency Became a Public Health Risk, by Michael Centrone

National Policy Analysis #304 /
If the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established to safeguard the nation's environment, then why does it require people to purchase gasoline that pollutes the water and makes them sick? That, after all, is the result of the EPA's controversial ...
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No Room for Science at the Union of Concerned Scientists, by John Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #292 /
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), an advocacy group of scientists based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, purports to recommend public policy solutions addressing a myriad of issues ranging from global warming to arms control on the basis of sound science. But ...
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New Government Report Warning of Global Warming Repeats Old Misinformation, by John K. Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #299 /
Here we go again. Now that summer is here and temperatures are rising, environmental scaremongers are, predictably, raising the rhetoric that man-made global warming is dangerously heating the planet and we must make economically-drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to ...
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