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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TCS COP 10 Coverage: Premature Congratulation
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Margaret Thatcher: A Free Market Environmentalist
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Climate Report Counters Alarmist Hearings
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Air Board’s Greenhouse Rule: Raw Deal for Dealers
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Cooling Blair’s Climate Crusade
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The One Percent Solution
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No to Kyoto Treaty
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Vol VIII, No 21
Politics Howard Victory Keeps Australia Out of Kyoto Protocol Australian Prime Minister…
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Hockey Stick Reduced to Sawdust
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EPA Official Predicts Federal Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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Cooler Heads, Vol VIII, No 20
Politics “Forced” Russian Decision Puts Kyoto Protocol on Verge of Ratification Acting contrary to the advice of the country’s top scientific…
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Carbon dioxide is your friend
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Greenpeace Seeks Greener Pastures
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CEI Planet: September 2004
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The Summer of Scientifically Inconvenient Hurricanes
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Why the United States Should Remove Its Signature from the Kyoto Protocol
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Russia Expected to Announce on Kyoto Protocol
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Kyotonomics Debunked
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California CO2 Regulation: Unscientific, Unlawful, Unaffordable, and Unsafe, CEI Warns
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Vol VIII, No 19
Politics Blair Puts Global Warming at Top of International Agenda In a major speech delivered September 14, British Prime Minister Tony…
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Journalistic Balancing Act?
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Sen. McCain Holds Junk Science Climate Hearing
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Global Jockeying over Global Warming
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Eco-Fascism Going Global
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Vol. VIII, No. 18
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July Was Coldest Month in Four Years
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International Atomic Agency Regrets Lack of Progress on Kyoto
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Vol VIII, No 17
Wallstrom Replaced as EU Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom of Sweden has been promoted in…
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Climate Alarmist Alert!
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Climate Consensus: Scarce resources should be spent where they’ll do the most good.
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Finding the Truth about Kyoto in a Lie by Bill Clinton
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Costly New Climate Rules for California Cars
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No-Second-Thoughts “Science”: A Noticeable Difference
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Vol. VIII, No 16
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McCain-Lieberman: A Regulatory Pandora’s Box
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Vol. VIII, No. 15
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