All Posts Tagged With: "Kyoto Protocol"
A Carbon Tax Will Fix Global Warming? It Just Aint So!
Roy Cordato (rcordato@johnlocke.org) is vice president for research at the John Locke Foundation and a member of the visiting economics faculty at North Carolina State University. It amazes me how so many newspaper columnists have no qualms about voicing opinions on topics they clearly know nothing about. This is the case with Anne Applebaum, politics [...]
1May2007 | Roy Cordato | 1 comment | ContinuedClimate Change: What if They’re Right?
What do Pat Robertson, Gregg Easterbrook, and Michael Shermer have in common? They’ve all moved from climate-change skepticism to the “global warming consensus.” These leading lights may help guide others toward this consensus too. And given the possibility that believers in global warming are right, I’d like to be charitable and suppose that, first, this [...]
1Jan2007 | Max Borders | 20 comments | ContinuedA Higher Gasoline Tax Will “Solve Everything”?
Regrettably, I have to criticize someone who, in the past, I have admired a great deal. John Tierney is an iconoclastic columnist for the New York Times who has been writing on environmental issues for at least a decade. His now-classic 1996 Times Magazine story critical of recycling was a well-researched article that I have [...]
1Apr2006 | Roy Cordato | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming by Patrick J. Michaels and Robert C. Balling
Cato Institute · 2000 · 224 pages · $10.95 paperback Reviewed by Bonner Cohen “There’s no question that global warming is a real phenomenon, that it is occurring,” EPA administrator Christie Todd Whitman told the press in February. “and while scientists can’t predict where the droughts will occur, where the flooding will occur precisely or [...]
1Oct2001 | Bonner Cohen | 0 comments | ContinuedUnprecedented Global Warming?
One of the most contentious issues of the day is global warming. Those who openly discuss the subject fall into one of two camps. First, there are the environmental alarmists who only see the world in terms of urban sprawl, deforestation, and pollution. For this group, global warming provides the much-needed justification to curtail, or [...]
1May2001 | Michael Heberling | 3 comments | ContinuedKyoto Protocol’s Death Is a Tragedy?
Last November was a bad month for the Greens. While the battle to save their most important political leader raged in Tallahassee, the battle to resurrect their most important international initiative raged in The Hague. There, representatives from 180 nations fought desperately to save the Kyoto Protocol—the 1997 global-warming treaty—from political oblivion. The meeting in [...]
1Mar2001 | Jerry Taylor | 0 comments | ContinuedWasting Energy on Energy Efficiency
Ben Lieberman is a policy analyst with the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. Few aspects of our daily lives are more heavily regulated by the federal government than our use of energy. The cars and trucks we drive, the structures in which we live and work, and virtually every major appliance we use has [...]
1Apr1999 | Ben Lieberman | 3 comments | ContinuedShould There Be a Carbon Subsidy?
The Clinton administration has committed the United States to a massive reduction in the use of energy. That is the implication of its signing the United Nations Global Climate Treaty in Kyoto, Japan. If the Senate approves, we will have to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions drastically CO2 is emitted naturally, of course, by everything [...]
1Jul1998 | Roy Cordato | 0 comments | ContinuedGlobal Warming: Hot Problem or Hot Air?
Jonathan Adler is director of environmental studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington D.C., and the editor of The Costs of Kyoto: Climate Change Policy and Its Implications (1997), from which portions of this essay are adapted. El Niño is the overhyped weather event of the decade. It has even made CNN’s “Larry King [...]
1Apr1998 | Jonathan H. Adler | 6 comments | ContinuedGlobal Politics, Political Warming
Doug Bandow is a widely published author and commentator. Five years ago the Clinton administration announced a 50-point plan to curb the emission of so-called greenhouse gases, principally carbon dioxide. Countries spent much of last fall debating a global agreement to cut future emissions below 1990 levels. “The only thing we know for absolute certain [...]
1Jan1998 | Doug Bandow | 6 comments | Continued-
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