by William Yeatman
February 09, 2005 @ 11:00 pm
The Cooler Heads Coalition
and
The George C. Marshall Institute
invite you to
a Congressional and media briefing on
The Kyoto Protocol and Beyond
A Roundtable Discussion on the Future of International and U. S. Climate Policy
2:304 PM
Thursday, February 10th
406, Senate Dirksen Office Building
Light refreshments
Please RSVP by calling Elle Collver at 202-296-9655
or e-mail info@marshall.org
The Kyoto Protocol will enter into force internationally on February 16th without the participation of the United States or Australia. Senator James M. Inhofe, State Department Senior Climate Negotiator Harlan L.…
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by Marlo Lewis
January 06, 2005 @ 11:00 pm
Now that Russia has ratified the Kyoto Protocol, Australia is the only industrialized country besides the United States to reject the U.N.-sponsored climate treaty. However, a report commissioned by Australian affiliates of World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace denies that Australia has any choice in the matter.
The report, prepared by the Sydney Centre for International and Global Law, contends that the World Heritage Convention, a treaty administered by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), obligates Australia to ratify…
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by David Henderson
January 06, 2005 @ 11:00 pm
David Henderson
Westminster Business School
Dr. David Henderson is currently a Visiting Professor at the Westminster Business School. He is a former chief economist of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Before this he had worked both as an academic and as a national and international civil servant, and since leaving the OECD he has been an independent author and consultant and has held visiting appointments in several countries.
In 2003, Prof. Henderson, with co-author Ian Castles, issued a scathing critique…
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by Christopher C. Horner
January 06, 2005 @ 11:00 pm
The chairman of the US Senate’s environment committee, Senator James Inhofe, warned the EU against pursuing its climate change agendastalled to date in the international negotiating processthrough backdoor means such as the World Trade Organization.
Specifically, Inhofe (Republican, Oklahoma) took to the floor of the Senate on the opening day of the 109th Congress to address recent scientific evidence debunking alarmist claims of catastrophic man-made global warming, and warn of various attempts that may be in the worksgiven that even Italy…
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by Sen. James Inhofe
January 03, 2005 @ 11:00 pm
The following is the text of a speech given by Sen. James Inhofe (Okla.) today:
As I said on the Senate floor on July 28, 2003, “much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.” I called the threat of catastrophic global warming the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” a statement that, to put it mildly, was not viewed kindly by environmental extremists and their elitist organizations. I also pointed out, in a…
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by William Yeatman
December 31, 2004 @ 11:00 pm
Where’s the party?
World Climate Report, Dec 16, 2004
Preliminary data indicate 2004 likely will register as the fourth-warmest year in the world’s surface temperature record. Yet despite all the gloom-and-doom scenarios, we haven’t experienced an all-time record-setter since the big El Nio back in 1998. Our planet may be warming, but not at a torrid clip.
CO2 No Pollutant
Financial Times, Dec 29 2004
While it is becoming increasingly fashionable to maintain that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, it was rather shocking to…
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by Steven Milloy
December 16, 2004 @ 11:00 pm
The international global warming worry-wart community is meeting in Buenos Aires this week to figure out how to get the U.S. to participate in the global economic suicide pact known as the Kyoto Protocol.
Russias recent ratification of the Protocol allows the treaty become effective in February 2005 though it’s pretty widely known that Russia only signed on in exchange for European support of Russias admission to the World Trade Organization, not because President Putin frets about a less frigid…
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by John McCaslin
December 15, 2004 @ 11:00 pm
Last night, before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Center for International Environmental Law announced a complaint on behalf of Arctic Inuit peoples against the United States “for causing global warming and its devastating impacts.”
And what are the devastating impacts?
”Apparently their snowmobiles are falling through the ice,” relays Christopher C. Horner, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who is attending this week’s global-warming negotiations in Buenos Aires.
”Leaving aside for the moment this action’s legal merits (there are none),…
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by Ivan Osorio
December 15, 2004 @ 11:00 pm
As in all other climate conferences, the major environmental pressure groups are making their presence felt here. Friends of the Earth International (FoE) is pushing bans on genetically modified trees, promotion of hydroelectric projects by international bodies like the U.N., and climate change litigation against business and governments.
FoE are pursuing these efforts through various coalitions. It is pushing the GM tree ban alongside the World Rainforest Movement. Especially significant for the United States, however, is FoEs efforts on behalf…
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by Ivan Osorio
December 14, 2004 @ 11:00 pm
Wednesday, December 15, and Im finally at the COP–though its been much busier outside of the convention center.
Ironically the meeting is being held at the Argentine Rural Society (La Rural, for short), an agriculture promotion body. Next to the convention hall is an amphitheater that looks like it could be used for equestrian or cattle shows.
Myron and I arrived in Buenos Aires on Sunday, December 12, nearly 5 hours late after we were bumped from our flight and…
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