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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 07/27/2001

Finally someone has brought the climate change debate back down to earth Politics   Triumph in Bonn?  Or Not!  …

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• By: CEI Staff
• 07/13/2001

Politics   Uncertainty Abounds Before Bonn   As negotiations resume in Bonn next week, it is not clear what will become of…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 06/28/2001

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 06/13/2001

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 05/30/2001

Bush May Propose Kyoto-lite While the Kyoto Protocol looks dead at the moment, it might be…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 05/16/2001

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 05/02/2001

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 04/18/2001

Global Warming’s Budget Blues   President George W. Bush’s proposed federal budget for FY2002 begins to…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 04/05/2001

Further Fallout from Kyoto Decision Criticism continues to fly at the United States from the European…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 03/21/2001

Bush Decides Against Regulating CO2 President George W. Bush announced on March 13 that his administration…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 03/07/2001

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 02/21/2001

IPCC, the Mythmaker In its latest headline grabbing move, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 02/07/2001

UK Conservatives Would Repeal Levy The British Parliament has passed a climate levy on energy use…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 01/24/2001

IPCC Releases Political Summary The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, on January 20, approved…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 01/10/2001

Umbrella Group to Hold Secret Meeting in Sunny New Zealand The Japan Times (December 29, 2000)…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 12/27/2000

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 12/13/2000

Politics   Ottawa Talks Can’t Break Ice Jam The collapse of the global warming negotiations in the Hague last month has not…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 11/29/2000

US Surrender is Not Enough to Save COP-6 from Collapsing The UNFCCC’s Sixth Conference of the…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 11/15/2000

Politics<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> COP-6 Off to Shaky Start The sixth Conference of the Parties to the…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 11/01/2000

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 10/19/2000

Bush Supports CO2 Controls George W. Bush’s comprehensive energy plan proposes a mandatory cap on emissions of CO2 for the nation’s electric utilities. In…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 10/05/2000

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 09/20/2000

Europe’s Anti-Fuel Tax Protests   Truck and taxi drivers across Europe and Great Britain have…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 09/06/2000

Expectations Lowered for Lyon and the Hague   In preparation for the Sixth Conference of…

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• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 08/11/2000

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 08/09/2000

U.S. Proposes Carbon Sinks for Kyoto The U.S. filed a proposal on August 1 to the…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 08/03/2000

The Candidates and the Platforms   The Kyoto Protocol and global warming are not, or…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 07/26/2000

The NACC’s Compliance Problems   Continuing White House stonewalling on the National Assessment on Climate…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 07/12/2000

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 06/28/2000

Gore Plans to Implement Kyoto Protocol If Elected President…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 06/14/2000

National Assessment: Scientific Fraud, Media Hype, and Legal Problems The U.S. National Assessment on the Climate…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 05/31/2000

House Rejects CAFE Increases   The annual fight over whether U.S. auto companies should be forced…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 05/19/2000

 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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 05/05/2000

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 04/19/2000

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 04/05/2000

 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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 03/28/2000

 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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 03/08/2000

 Politics Carbon Tax in England Great Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that his country will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 02/23/2000

Politics   More Backdoor Implementation   The Clinton-Gore Administration has publicly stated on several occasions that it has no intention of implementing the Kyoto Protocol…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 02/09/2000

Politics Clinton Releases Global Warming Budget The Clinton-Gore Administration’s FY2001 budget is laden with global warming pork and flouts the Knollenberg provision that prohibits implementation…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 01/26/2000

Politics   Global Warming Activists Work Agitate Iowans   The Washington, D.C.-based green activist group, Ozone Action, has been protesting the lack of attention paid…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 01/13/2000

Politics   Congress Oversees EPA’s New Source Review   When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a meeting on January 13 to discuss “an alternative…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 12/22/1999

Politics   Aviation and Global Warming   Aviation has come under attack in the global warming debate. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 12/08/1999

 Politics   Ford Leaves GCC   In a terse statement dated December 3, the Ford Motor Company informed the Global Climate Coalition “that it will…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 11/24/1999

 Politics Pew Runs for Cover As reported in our last issue, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in a letter from Jack Kemp, challenged the Pew Center…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 11/10/1999

Politics   Yawns in Bonn   The fifth Conference of the Parties (COP-5) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change concluded with little fanfare…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 10/27/1999

Politics   Bonn is Underway   The fifth Conference of the Parties (COP-5) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is under way…

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• By: CEI Staff
• 10/13/1999

Politics   CAFE and Presidential Politics   The Greens launched a major effort this year to block a freeze on the Corporate Average Fuel Economy…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 09/29/1999

Politics   Climate Change Funding Unabated   The Clinton-Gore Administration continues to engage in attempts at backdoor implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. Last year Congress…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 09/15/1999

Politics   Bush Attacks Kyoto   Those who are concerned about the adverse economic consequences of cutting energy use to prevent the dubious threat of…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 09/01/1999

Politics   The Candidates’ Views on Kyoto   As a resource to our readers, the Cooler Heads newsletter is providing the views of the presidential…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 08/18/1999

Politics Clinton’s Biomass Program In an obvious attempt to buy support from farmers for its global warming policies, the Clinton Administration has unveiled its latest…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 08/04/1999

Politics Knollenberg Language Strengthened Congressional attempts to limit federal agencies’ efforts to implement or promote the Kyoto Protocol have intensified during the current appropriations cycle.

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 07/21/1999

Politics   Early Action Credits: Road to Kyoto Early action crediting is being promoted as a way to protect industry in the event that the…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 07/07/1999

Politics Court Ruling Defeats Kyoto In May the federal appeals court invalidated the Environmental Protection Agency’s standards for ozone and particulate matter on the grounds…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 06/23/1999

Politics Bill to Ban Early Action Crediting Recent attempts to implement the Kyoto Protocol have come under the guise of giving emission credits to companies…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 06/09/1999

Politics Implementation Sans Ratification   A leaked EPA document dated April 23, describes an April 7 meeting between EPA and White House staffers, and private…

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• By: Stub
• 05/27/1999

Full Briefing available in PDF format.   Preface   Good afternoon. What I would…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 05/26/1999

Politics Texas Governor Declares Belief in Global Warming Theory The GOP presidential frontrunner, George W. Bush, may have conceded the global warming debate to Vice…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 05/12/1999

Politics New Bill to Implement Clinton-Gore Agenda Just when it looked like the Clinton Administration’s global warming agenda was…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 04/28/1999

Politics Senate Bill Would Spend $2 Billion to Prevent Global Warming On April 27 Senators Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska), chairman…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 04/14/1999

Politics Green Activists Criticize Gores Environmental Record If Al Gore wants to become the next president of the United…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 03/31/1999

Politics Senators Hagel and Murkowski to Introduce Global Warming Bill Senators Frank Murkowski (R-AK), Chairman of the Senate Energy…

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• By: Keith Idso
• 03/19/1999

Full Briefing available in PDF format. 2325 RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESWASHINGTON, DC I…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 03/17/1999

Politics New Early Action Bill Introduced The latest attempt to smooth the way for ratification of the Kyoto Protocol is…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 03/03/1999

Politics Iceland Will Not Sign Kyoto The first major defection from the Kyoto Protocol comes from an unlikely source.

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• By: Patrick Michaels
• 02/17/1999

Politics Greens Oppose Early Credit Bill Several Green groups, including the Center for International Environmental Law, Greenpeace, National Environment…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 02/03/1999

Politics Clinton Asks for $4 Billion to Prevent Global Warming In a blatant attempt to implement the unratified Kyoto…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 01/20/1999

Politics Greens Criticize Early Emissions Bill A bill introduced by Sens. John Chafee (R-RI), Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and Connie…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 01/06/1999

Politics Debate Over Early Credits Heats Up Support is steadily building for proposed legislation that, if passed could seriously…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 12/23/1998

Politics GAO Report on Voluntary Emission Crediting A new attempt to implement the Kyoto Protocol without Senate ratification is underway. A…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 12/09/1998

Politics Early Credit for Emissions Reductions The latest attempt to implement the Kyoto Protocol without Senate ratification is a scheme to use the threat of…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 11/25/1998

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 11/11/1998

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 10/28/1998

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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• By: Robert Reinstein
• 10/23/1998

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 10/14/1998

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 09/30/1998

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 09/16/1998

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 09/02/1998

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 08/19/1998

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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• By: Sallie Baliunas, Ph.D.
• 08/07/1998

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 08/05/1998

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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• By: Dr. Paul Reiter
• 07/28/1998

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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• By: Mark P. Mills
• 07/24/1998

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 07/22/1998

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 07/08/1998

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 06/24/1998

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 06/10/1998

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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• By: Dr. David Legates
• 06/05/1998

Full Briefing available in PDF format. Preface Predictions of harmful global warming from human-generated greenhouse gases are largely…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 05/27/1998

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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• By: Dr. Roger Pocklington
• 05/22/1998

Preface Full Briefing available in PDF format. Preface   The global warming establishment asserts that…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 05/13/1998

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 04/29/1998

  Politics Anti-Kyoto Science Petition Tops 17,000 Names A petition circulated to scientists urging lawmakers to reject the Kyoto…

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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 04/15/1998

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 04/01/1998

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 03/18/1998

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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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 03/04/1998

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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