Announcements

The Competitive Enterprise Institute this week launched a new video campaign to persuade Al Gore to accept Lord Monckton’s challenge for a debate on climate change. CEI is offering Mr. Gore big bucks to debate!

The Cornwall Alliance and the Heritage Foundation are holding a joint event, “Leading Evangelical Scholars Warn That Global Warming Alarmism Will Hurt the Poor,” on Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 1:00 P.M., at The Heritage Foundation’s Lehrman Auditorium. RSVP online at http://www.heritage.org/Press/Events/.

In the News

Is Old George…

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On Friday, November 6th, the Cooler Heads Coalition hosted Matthew Sinclair, research director of the Taxpayers’ Alliance. Mr. Sinclair presented his new study,  “The Expensive Failure of the European Union’s Cap-and-Trade Scheme.” The study shows that the EU’s experience with energy rationing climate policies is a warning rather than a model.

Video of Mr Sinclair’s presentation, “The Expensive Failure of the EU’s Cap-and-Trade Scheme”

Power point Presentation of “The Expensive Failure of the EU’s Cap-and-Trade Scheme”

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Yesterday the Washington Times hosted a briefing, “Advancing the Global Debate over Climate Change Policy,” at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. The event featured four panels, one each for lobbyists, members of think tanks, Members of Congress, and foreign policy experts. This last panel included Czech President Václav Klaus, and his excellent remarks are below:

Václav Klaus, Washington Briefing: Advancing the Global Debate over Climate Change Policy, November 4, 2009.

“Many thanks for the invitation and for the courage to organize…

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For background on this afternoon’s Senate Environment and Public Works mark-up hearing on S. 1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power act, read this post on Boxer’s Reckless Pace.

2:34, Hearing begins:

Boxer thanks her Democratic colleagues for attending and for their strong voices in the morning.

Boxer sits before stacks and stacks of pages. She says they are the economic analysis and modeling that she says had been used by EPA’s staff. This is her rebuttal to GOP claims that they…

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Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) has set a frantic pace for major energy-rationing legislation so she can meet a deadline imposed by the United Nations.

Boxer wants to have climate legislation out of the Environment and Public Works Committee, which she chairs, before the 15th Conference of Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change this December in Copenhagen, where the United Nations hopes to produce a successor climate treaty to the failed Kyoto Protocol.

To meet this December deadline, Senator Boxer has…

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On Monday, October 26th, the Cooler Heads Coalition hosted Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Video of Dr. Lindzen’s presentation, “Deconstructing Global Warming”

Power point Presentation

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When Senator John Kerry released a draft of S. 1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, he told reporters, “I don’t know what cap-and-trade means.” That was a pretty strange thing to say, seeing as how he wrote the legislation, and its centerpiece is a cap-and-trade energy rationing scheme.

In the month since, it doesn’t seem as though Kerry bothered to learn anything about the bill he supposedly wrote. Yesterday he told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee…

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Yesterday the Cooler Heads Coalition hosted Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Video of Dr. Lindzen’s presentation, “Deconstructing Global Warming,” will be available shortly, but his power point presentation is online now.

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In the News

Kerry’s Climate Strategy: An Ugly Repeat
William Yeatman & Jeremy Lott, American Spectator, 23 October 2009

The Chicago Way
Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal, 22 October 2009

WWF Extends Dire Consequences Deadline
Paul Chesser, GlobalWarming.org, 23 October 2009

The View from Vanuatu on Climate Change
Bjorn Lomborg, Wall Street Journal, 23 October 2009

Apple, Nike, and the U.S. Chamber
Myron Ebell, Wall Street Journal, 22 October 2009

Wellesley Walkout
Chris Horner, Planet Gore, 22 October 2009

Tiny Bat Pits Green against Green
Maria Glod, Washington Post, 22 October 2009

Data Deflates…

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The professoriate at Wellesley does not come across as high-minded in this account of a recent visit from CEI’s Chris Horner in today’s Planet Gore.

There was a good turnout at Wellesley College last night for my talk “A Quick Tour of the Ultimate in Political Correctness: The ‘Global Warming’ Issue, Agenda and Industry,” hosted by the College Republican Club . . . once presided over here by Hillary Rodham on her way to a thesis about Saul Alinksy, whose ghost (as…

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