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The Surge: Clean Power Plan 2.0 and more
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Time to end China’s “developing nation” dodge on climate treaties
China’s newly-appointed Special Envoy for Climate Change, Liu Zhenmin, will soon meet for the first time with his American counterpart, John Podesta. One of…
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House GOP prepares CRA resolutions against Biden climate-risk rules, including SEC climate disclosure rule
Members of the House Financial Services Committee have passed four Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions targeting four Biden-era climate-risk rulemakings. Among these is a…
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Vol. II, No. 24
Politics Combining Montreal with Kyoto Many issues were discussed at the climate change talks in Buenos Aires this month, but one of the most disturbing…
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Vol. II, No. 23
Politics A Report from Our Team in Buenos Aires Only 2,000 people reportedly participated in the event’s first week, a far cry from the…
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Climate Change: Insights from Oceanography
Full Document Available in PDF The global warming establishment asserts that the science underlying…
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Vol. II, No. 22
Politics EPA Lacks Authority to Regulate CO2 Following the completion of the Kyoto Protocol, Carol Browner, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), testified before…
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Emission Credits: The Supply & Demand Gap
Full Briefing available in PDF format. Preface Last year, some 160 nations negotiated an agreement in Kyoto, Japan, that would require the…
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Vol. II, No. 21
Politics Little Progress Expected in Buenos Aires The fourth Conference of the Parties (COP-4) will meet in Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 2-13 to further…
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Temperature Data Still Riddled With Errors.
With the evidence for man-made global warming becoming more tenuous each year, green activists like Vice President Al Gore have been reduced to…
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Doomsday Déjà vu: Ozone Depletion’s Lessons for Global Warming
Full Document Available in PDF The Kyoto Protocol to…
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Vol. II, No. 20
Politics U.S., EU Move Toward Consensus? Following two days of informal ministerial meetings in Tokyo, Japan on September 16-17, negotiators from the United States and…
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Vol. II, No. 19
Politics New Tax Credit Plan Unveiled The Clinton Administration’s tax and spend plan to avert global warming is being resurrected in the form of the…
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Vol. II, No. 18
Politics Energy Secretary: Global Warming Message Not Getting Out The Clinton administration’s new Energy Secretary Bill Richardson recently remarked that the administration has been “out-gunned…
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Federal Government Doles Out Millions in Greenhouse Pork
View Full Document as PDF The Kyoto global warming treaty may pose a threat to the U.S. economy, but it has spawned…
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Vol. II, No. 17
Politics EPA’s Propaganda Machine Rolls On The EPA is “spending untold millions on propaganda about ‘global warming,’” according to Investor’s Business Daily (August 4, 1998).
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Hot Times Or Hot Air: The Sun in the Science of Global Warming
PREFACE The global warming scare assumes that human emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are the dominant driving force in recent…
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Vol. II, No. 16
Politics Heated House Hearings On July 29, the House Committee on Small Business became the scene of a heated debate about the science of global…
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Warming Without Regrets: A Free-Market Approach To Uncertainty And Climate Change
Vice President Al Gore proclaims that "people are sweltering," recent hot spells demonstrate that human-induced global warming is here, and the world must adopt…
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Global Warming And Vector-Borne Disease: Is Warmer Sicker?
PREFACE One of the scarier claims made by supporters of an international climate treaty is that global warming will spawn epidemics of deadly "tropical…
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Kyoto Economics: The Costs and Follies of Eco-Energy Planning
Full Briefing available in PDF format. Preface If ratified and implemented, the Kyoto Protocol would inaugurate an era of international eco-energy planning.
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Vol. II, No. 15
Politics Gore’s Global Warming Sideshow On July 14 Vice President Al Gore took advantage of warm summer temperatures to browbeat Congress into accepting the Administration’s…
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Clinton-Gore and the Costs of Kyoto: Numbers Out of Thin Air
View Full Document as PDF How does the Clinton-Gore Administration arrive at its estimate that the Kyoto climate treaty would cost…
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Vol. II, No. 14
Politics Little Progress Made in Bonn The Clinton Administration’s prospects of meeting the conditions set under the Byrd/Hagel resolution diminished significantly at the meeting of…
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Vol. II, No. 13
Politics GAO Critiques Clinton Climate Policy The Clinton Administration’s blueprint for implementing the Kyoto Protocol lacks quantitative goals, specific time frames, and cost benefit analyses,…
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Vol. II, No. 12
Politics Gore Spins El Niño On behalf of the White House Vice President Al Gore announced at a June 8 press conference that each of…
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Second Cooler Heads Lecture On Global Warming
Washington, DC, June 5, 1998 — The Cooler Heads Coalition, a working group within the broader National Consumer Coalition founded by Consumer Alert, today…
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How Reliable Are Climate Models?
Full Briefing available in PDF format. Preface Predictions of harmful global warming from human-generated greenhouse gases are largely…
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Out of Thin Air
"If we do it dumb, it will cost a lot; if we do it smart, it won’t cost much." Thus sayeth theKyoto apologists in…
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Cashing in on Global Warming
The Kyoto global warming treaty may pose a looming threat to the U.S. economy, but it has spawned a cottage industry based in the…
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A Time and Place For Solar
The Clinton Administration’s "Comprehensive Electricity Competition Plan" announced on March 25, 1998 proposes a Renewable Portfolio Standard that would require 5.5 percent of all…
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Mitigation of Climate Change: A Scientific Appraisal
Full Document Available in PDF Contrary to President Clinton, the science…
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Vol. II, No. 11
Politics House Version of Ashcroft Drops On May 7 Rep. Joseph Knollenberg (R-MI) introduced a bill (H.R. 3807) that, like the Senate version introduced by…
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First Cooler Heads Lecture On Global Warming
Washington, DC, May 22, 1998 — The Cooler Heads Coalition, a working group chaired by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) within Consumer Alert’s broader…
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Climate Change: Insights from Oceanography
Preface Full Briefing available in PDF format. Preface The global warming establishment asserts that…
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Vol. II, No. 10
Politics UN Readies “Buenos Aires Mandate” The UN Conference on Trade and Development has developed recommendations for the proposed Buenos Aires Mandate to be completed…
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Vol. II, No. 9
Politics Anti-Kyoto Science Petition Tops 17,000 Names A petition circulated to scientists urging lawmakers to reject the Kyoto…
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Vol. II, No. 8
Politics Environmental Ministers Meet Environmental ministers from 29 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the G-8 Ministers (“The Group of…
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Vol. II, No. 7
Politics Electricity Deregulation On March 25 the Clinton Administration announced its Comprehensive Electricity Competition Plan. The plan, according to the Administration will save consumers $20…
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No Implementation Without Ratification
WASHINGTON, DC, March 30, 1998 — “Every high school civics student knows that two-thirds of the Senate must approve a treaty before it becomes…
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Institute President Attacks “Greenhouse Pork”
Washington, DC, March 25, 1998 — CEI President Fred L. Smith, Jr. today called for an end to federal subsidies for research and development…
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Vol. II, No. 6
Politics Backdoor Implementation Some Senators fear that Undersecretary of State Stuart Eizenstat misled them when he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that “We have…
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Don’t Sign The Kyoto Protocol: Climate Treaty Is Dangerous to U.S., World
WASHINGTON, DC, March 16, 1998 — “The Kyoto Protocol is a dangerous treaty, and President Clinton should not sign it,” said Marlo Lewis, Jr.,…
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Vol. II, No. 5
Politics The Administration’s Negotiating Strategy On March 4, 1998, Undersecretary of State Stuart Eizenstat reassured the House Commerce Subcommittee that the U.S. was committed to…
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Climate Care
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Vol. II, No. 4
Politics Senator Inhofe Opposes Clinton’s Greenhouse Budget U.S. Senator James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.) has made it clear he will oppose the Clinton Administration’s $6.3 billion…
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Vol. II, No. 3
Politics Clinton’s Multi-billion Dollar Plan On January 30, the Clinton administration announced a $6.3 billion emissions reduction plan. The budget for fiscal year 1999 will…
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CEI Blasts Big-Government Era State of Union Message
Washington DC, January 28 –”President Clinton’s State of the Union message makes it clear that the era of big government is not over,” said…
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Vol. II, No. 2
Politics No Stealth Implementation Rep. David McIntosh, R-Ind., directed his Government Reform and Oversight regulatory subcommittee to send letters to the Environmental Protection Agency, the…
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Vol. II, No. 1
Politics You Think One Kyoto is Bad? Try Thirty Jorge Sarmiento of Princeton University told Science (December 19, 1997) after the completion of the Kyoto…
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Free Market Mission to Kyoto
Japan’s Foreign Minister opened the United Nations climate conference in Kyoto by calling it "an event that could change the history of mankind." Hoping to…
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Vol. I, No. 12
Politics What Have We Done? In November the Clinton Administration announced its negotiating position for the upcoming Kyoto conference. It proposed stabilization of emissions at…
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Kyoto Media Advisory: December 10, 1997
Industrialized nations have tentatively agreed to a global warming protocol covering six “greenhouse gases” — carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur…
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