Retaliatory steps that comply with world trade rules could be found against China and India if they fail to help international efforts to cut emissions of carbon dioxide, a senior US diplomat said on Tuesday.

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Developing and rich countries both need to do their bit to slash carbon emissions in an effort to tackle climate change, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today.

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The Enviros are Depressed || December 7, 2005

Correction: First, let me correct a mistake in my first report from Montreal yesterday. I wrote that Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, in reply to a question said that yes, she thought it was correct that India and China had joined the U. S. in objecting to a new round of formal negotiations on what is to follow Kyoto after 2012. What she really said was that she…

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“Scientists’ Recent Comments on Global Warming and Hurricanes” examines recent claims that hurricanes are becoming dramatically worse, and that global warming is influencing the numbers, frequency and intensity of recent hurricanes in the busy 2004-2005 seasons. One focus is recent controversy over papers by Webster and Curry (Science, 2005) and by Kerry Emanuel (Nature, 2005), claiming a positive connection.

“This paper is a bit different,” says Ferguson, “because it presents the discussion directly from the participating scientists via popular press…

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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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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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David Henderson
Westminster Business School

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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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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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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.

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