Bush Administration decides to allow consumers to keep breathing, after all

WASHINGTON, DC (March 14, 2001) Consumer Alert breathed a deep sigh of relief today at the announcement from the Bush Administration that it would not seek to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. “On behalf of the 280 million American consumers who exhale carbon dioxide on a daily basis, Consumer Alert thanks George W. Bush and his administration for its position on this issue,” said policy analyst James Plummer.

CA Executive Director Frances…

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Arlington, VA March 25, 1999) In their fourth report pursuant to a Greening Earth Society research grant to Arizona State University, the ASU Climate Data Task Force examined 1,437-years of temperature data extrapolated from tree-ring chronologies of Bristlecone pines (Pinus aristata) growing in the San Francisco Peaks area of northern Arizona. The reconstructed temperatures during the 20th Century showed a warming of 0.10C per decade that, over the entire 1,437-year record, appears to be “an inconsequential twist in the long road…

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Washington, D.C., November 12, 1998 — In statements released today, consumers, senior citizens, small business, minority, and public policy groups denounced the President’s signing of the Kyoto Protocol — the global warming treaty. The non-profit groups stressed the high human costs of the treaty’s drastic restrictions on energy use — costs that will be borne by people, especially lower-income people, in every aspect of their lives.

The organizations, members of the National Consumer Coalition’s “Cooler Heads Coalition,” note the growing…

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The global warming conference in Buenos Aires got off to a rocky start. Only 2,000 people reportedly participated in the events first week, a far cry from the 10,000+ that attended the December 1997 conference in Kyoto. The Green non-governmental organization (NGO) lobby appears to be dispirited, and expectations for COP-4 are very low indeed. Early in the conference, China and the Group of 77 underdeveloped countries refused to consider the possibility of voluntarily participating in global carbon suppression efforts…

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 ABC News’ Michael Guillen: Beware of Climate Hype

Washington, D.C. — Something unprecedented happened on ABC’s Good Morning America on Tuesday: A correspondent questioned global-warming hysteria. Unfortunately, such basic skepticism was missing in every other report on climate change this week, as other network reporters continued to parrot Al Gore’s warnings that the Earth is catastrophically warming.

The sole dissenter from the party line was ABC News Science Editor Michael Guillen. “The earth does things in cycles,” Guillen noted. “Everything from…

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WASHINGTON, D.C., AUGUST 7, 1998 — Compared to natural climate changes spurred by the sun, any global warming resulting from increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would be slow and insignificant, according to astrophysicist Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Speaking today at a briefing for Congressional staff, Dr. Baliunas said the scientific evidence for the link between solar variability and shifts in climate only began to emerge in the last decade or so. The most recent studies…

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Washington DC: At a press conference today sponsored by the “Cooler Heads Coalition,” a subgroup of the National Consumer Coalition, policymakers, citizens groups, scientists and state petitions and resolutions were released that oppose the U.S. signing the global climate treaty.

With Earth Day approaching the President may be preparing to sign the Kyoto Protocol which calls for dramatic reductions in energy use in the U.S., the groups noted.

The press briefing was led off by Thair Phillips, CEO, The Seniors Coalition, who…

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CONTACT: Peter Cleary, Communications Manager,  202-785-0266

Washington, D.C. Today, as the Senate holds its hearing on the implications of the Kyoto protocol, Americans for Tax Reform issued a special “Enemy of the Taxpayer Award” to the Vice President of the United States, Al Gore.

The Vice Presidents selection for this dubious distinction was a direct result of the role he played in the global climate conference in Kyoto, Japan. Negotiations stalled in Kyoto because other nations were all too happy to impose…

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Contact: Consumer Alert 202-467-5809

Members of the National Consumer Coalition today denounced the Presidents comments on global climate change issues in last nights State of the Union Address. Following are statements of several groups.

“President Clintons State of the Union comments on global warming vastly overstate scientific consensus on the issue while overlooking the enormous threat to American consumers of drastic cutbacks on energy use. The Kyoto agreement would require about a 40 percent reduction in energy use by 2012. Throwing…

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Following is a letter sent by grassroots leaders concerned about the implications of global warming policies to state level policy makers. Many people are concerned that the Clinton Administration, the EPA, and state-level government agencies will attempt to implement the treaty without the approval of Congress.

January 16, 1998

Dear Colleague:

We are writing to enlist your aid in preventing the sblackth implementation of an international climate change treaty by the Clinton White House; the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and…

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