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Vol. V, No. 15

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

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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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Vol. V, No. 13

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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Vol. V, No. 12

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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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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Vol. V, No. 9

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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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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Vol. V, No. 6

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

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Vol. V, No. 5

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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Vol. V, No. 4

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

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Vol. V, No. 2

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

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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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Vol IV, No. 25

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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Vol. IV, No. 23

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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Vol. IV, No. 22

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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Vol. IV, No. 21

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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Vol. IV, No. 20

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. 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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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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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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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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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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Vol. IV, No. 5

 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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Vol. IV, No. 4

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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Vol. IV, No. 3

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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Vol. IV, No. 2

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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Vol. IV, No. 1

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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Vol. III, No. 26

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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Vol. III, No. 25

 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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Vol. III, No. 24

 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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Vol. III, No. 23

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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Vol. III, No. 22

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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Vol. III, No. 21

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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Vol. III, No. 20

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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Vol. III, No. 19

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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