There is also the constant conflating of climate policy with climate science in order to make subjective and ideological policy choices seem as if the science dictates those choices. But science informs policy, it does not provide objective answers to policy questions. However, those who disagree with the climate policy choices favored by extremists are labeled with offensive terms like deniers.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute rejects climate policies that assume Americans and humans all over the world must sacrifice their quality of living, be guilted into radical life changes, and give up on improving their standard of living in the name of fighting climate change. Even if the United States no longer existed, there would be little to no meaningful impact on global temperatures. Therefore, the myriad of extreme policies are all costs and no gain.
Using the force of government to impose policies that severely hurt humans today, especially the poor, without any meaningful benefits is not just foolish but indefensible. And when such policies are advanced, the proponents of those policies should always be expected to explain how their policy choices would meaningfully affect global temperatures. When they are unable to provide answers, which will be the case, their policy choices should be quickly dismissed.
The best way to deal with any genuine climate concerns is to remove government obstacles that hinder innovation, reduce wealth, and undermine prosperity and opportunity. Economic liberty benefits Americans generally, and at the same time, it is also the world’s best climate policy. After all, the wealthiest and most prosperous nations are far more likely to develop solutions to such problems than other nations.
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Those concerned that the Bush administration might have miscued on Kyoto will be reassured by a careful reading of the new boo Smith…
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U.S. Prepares For World Climate Controversy – Bonn, Germany – July 16-24
Washington, DC, July 13, 2001 — The upcoming UN global warming negotiations in Bonn, Germany will be a vital test of United States…
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Vol. V, No. 14
Politics Uncertainty Abounds Before Bonn As negotiations resume in Bonn next week, it is not clear what will become of…
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Politics Informal Talks Hit Early Snags Informal talks are being held this week in the Hague in preparation for the resumption…
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Politics<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Bush Reaffirms Opposition to Kyoto, Proposes Alternatives President George…
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CEI Praises President Bush’s Commitment To Science on Global Warming
Washington, DC, June 11, 2001—The Competitive Enterprise Institute welcomes President Bush’s recognition that a great deal of scientific uncertainty remains over questions surrounding…
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CEI Praises President Bush’s Commitment To Science on Global Warming
Washington, DC, June 11, 2001—The Competitive Enterprise Institute welcomes President Bush’s recognition that a great deal of scientific uncertainty remains over questions surrounding…
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Despite the Hype, NAS Report Confirms Uncertainties in Global Warming Science
Washington, DC, June 7, 2001— The National Academy of Sciences report, released today, has already been characterized as offering further confirmation of…
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Despite the Hype, NAS Report Confirms Uncertainties in Global Warming Science
Washington, DC, June 7, 2001— The National Academy of Sciences report, released today, has already been characterized as offering further confirmation of…
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Sustainable Development? How About Sustainable Growth?
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Vol. V, No. 11
Bush May Propose Kyoto-lite While the Kyoto Protocol looks dead at the moment, it might be…
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Washington, DC, May 17, 2001— The Competitive Enterprise Institute commends the Bush administration’s energy plan announced today for emphasizing the need for plentiful,…
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The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is conducting a campaign of fear to convince us that energy suppression is our…
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Vol. V, No. 10
Pro-Kyoto Amendment Passes House On May 16 the U.S. House of Representatives passed the State Department Budget Authorization (H.R. 1646)…
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Bush Administration Seeks Advice The New York Times reported on April 28 that the White House has held a number of high-level briefings on…
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Bush Administration’s First 100 Days: A Report Card on Environmental Policy
Washington, DC, April 26, 2001— The Competitive Enterprise Institute today released grades for President Bush’s first 100 days of environmental policy. Many of…
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Vol. V, No. 8
Global Warming’s Budget Blues President George W. Bush’s proposed federal budget for FY2002 begins to…
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Media Advisory: Proponents of “Smart” Environmentalism Available for Earth Day
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Vol. V, No. 7
Further Fallout from Kyoto Decision Criticism continues to fly at the United States from the European…
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CEI Applauds End of US Support for Kyoto Protocol
Washington, D.C., March 27, 2001 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute welcomes Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Todd Whitman's…
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Bush Decides Against Regulating CO2 President George W. Bush announced on March 13 that his administration…
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CEI’s Myron Ebell Named “Villain of the Month”
Washington, D.C., March 22, 2001—In recognition of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Cooler Heads Coalition’s efforts to help prevent the regulation of carbon dioxide…
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Washington, D.C., March 14, 2001—The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market public policy group, is praising President Bush for his decision not to…
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The wrongheaded policies of the Clinton-Gore Administration have found new and perhaps more vigorous life within the Bush Administration. Recently, senior officials have made several…
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United Nations Perverts Science for Political Advantage
Washington, D.C., March 7, 2001 – The release this week of the United Nations’ latest summary reports on global warming have many of the scientists…
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Leading Climate Scientist Disputes Global Warming Theories
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IPCC, the Mythmaker In its latest headline grabbing move, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
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Umbrella Group to Hold Secret Meeting in Sunny New Zealand The Japan Times (December 29, 2000)…
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Vol. IV, No. 26
So far President-Elect George W. Bush’s nominees for top positions look wobbly on global warming. Bush has chosen Christine Todd Whitman as his administrator of…
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Statement of Myron Ebell, Director of Global Warming and International Environmental Policyat the Competitive Enterprise Institute, on the breakdown in talks at the…
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Washington, DC, November 30, 2000 – The lack of any agreement at the United Nations’ recently concluded negotiations on climate change in the…
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US Surrender is Not Enough to Save COP-6 from Collapsing The UNFCCC’s Sixth Conference of the…
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US Negotiators Declare Certainty of Purpose
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US Proposals Rebuffed at Global Warming Negotiations: EU Officials Seek Larger Sacrifices
A live report from The Hague by CEI’s Chris Horner at the Sixth Conference of the Parties to the UN Treaty on Global Warming…
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Countdown to COP-6 The Kyoto Protocol’s loose ends were supposed to be wrapped up at the sixth Conference of Parties to the U. N. Framework…
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Administration Sued Over National Assessment Four members of the Cooler Heads Coalition, three members of Congress, and one individual filed suit in federal court…
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Vol. IV, No.19
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Vol. IV, No. 18
Expectations Lowered for Lyon and the Hague In preparation for the Sixth Conference of…
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Cooler Heads Coalition Files Lawsuit Against USCGRP’s “National Assessment” on Global Climate Change
Full Document Available in PDF Format Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. App. Section 10, the Federal Advisory Committee Act (“FACA”), and toward…
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Vol. IV, No. 16
U.S. Proposes Carbon Sinks for Kyoto The U.S. filed a proposal on August 1 to the…
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Vol. IV, No. 17
The Candidates and the Platforms The Kyoto Protocol and global warming are not, or…
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Aren’t High Gas Prices Part of What Gore Believes In?–Kemp in IBD
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Vol. IV, No. 15
The NACC’s Compliance Problems Continuing White House stonewalling on the National Assessment on Climate…
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Vol. IV, No. 14
Politics White House Rebuffs Congressmen on National Assessment The stench of the National Assessment has reached Congress. Representatives James Sensenbrenner, chairman of the…
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Apocalypse Soon: Climate Assessment is Based on Fear
“Many statements in the Overview Document have a rather extreme/alarmist tone and do not appear to fairly reflect the scientific literature, the historical record, or…
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Vol. IV, No. 13
Gore Plans to Implement Kyoto Protocol If Elected President…
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Kemp on Clinton and Global Warming
June 15, 2000 – With gas prices surging, and EPA responsible for up to 40 cents of the record-high price in the Midwest…
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Vol. IV, No. 12
National Assessment: Scientific Fraud, Media Hype, and Legal Problems The U.S. National Assessment on the Climate…
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Global Warming Study Filled With Junk Science, Political Biases
Washington, DC, June 12, 2000 – The so-called National Assessment on Climate Change (NACC) formally released today by a federal government panel is a…
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Ecology, Liberty & Property
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Climate Change Panel Produces Unlawful Report
Washington, DC, June 1, 2000 – A meeting today of the U.S. Global Change Research Program should raise concerns among global warming and legal experts,…
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Vol. IV, No. 11
House Rejects CAFE Increases The annual fight over whether U.S. auto companies should be forced…
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Institute Blasts Global Warming Misinformation
Washington, D.C., May 25, 2000 – The claims that global warming would harm agricultural productivity are contradicted by a wealth of scientific and…
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Global Warming Briefing: What’s Wrong with UN Climate Science?
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Vol. IV, No. 10
Politics EPA Blasts the National Assessment The National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Change is under attack from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,…
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Vol. IV, No. 9
Politics New Jersey/Seattle Guinea Pigs? No, this story is not about how global warming is harming guinea pigs in New Jersey and Seattle.
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Ozone Depletion and Global Warming Linked—Again
The latest government press conference on the ozone layer, held on April 5th, announced that this protective shield had been eroded over the Arctic…
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Kemp: Clean Up the Planet with Sound Science: The Earth Day Crowd Has It All Wrong
Is mankind the greatest threat to the earth, as Vice President Gore and Greenpeace would have us believe, or the best hope for stewardship?…
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Earth Day 2000—A Time For Celebrating Successes
Washington, DC, April 21, 2000 – There will be a lot to celebrate tomorrow when millions of people around the world gather on the 30th…
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Vol. IV, No. 8
Politics Assessing the National Assessment The U.S. Global Climate Research Program is about to release its National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of…
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Julian Simon and the Triumph of Energy Sustainability
Full Document Available in PDF Julian Simon would have been impressed…
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U.S. PIRG Report Distorts Science of Global Warming
Washington, D.C., April 6, 2000 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute today accused the U.S. Public Interest Research Group of misleading the American public about…
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Vol. IV, No. 7
Politics Senate Bills Get a Hearing The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on March 30 held a hearing on two Republican bills…
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The Dangers of Playing Politics With Science
Al Gore’s “Tragic Indifference to the Human Consequences” Last August Vice President Al Gore told a captive audience of science students at…
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CEI/Cooler Heads Sue EPA: Agency Stonewalling on Constitutional End-Run
The Cooler Heads Coalition and the Competitive Enterprise Institute filed suit against the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US District Court…
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Vol. IV, No. 6
Politics Norway’s Government Falls on Anti-Kyoto Vote After a vote of no confidence on March 8, Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik announced the…
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CEI/Chamber of Commerce Environmental Summit 2000 slated for April 7
The gloves come off April 7. That’s when Ron Bailey, adjunct scholar at CEI and the editor of Earth Report 2000, squares off…
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