The EU's Sanctimonious Climate Bluster

Yet 92 percent of the emissions reductions in the EU-15 took place in Germany and the United Kingdom, and these cuts had nothing to do with climate policy. Restructuring of the UK electricity sector in 1990 facilitated a “dash to gas” from coal power, ...
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The Mendacity of Al Gore's Rolling Stone Article, Part 3: Diplomacy and

This is Part 3 of a multipart series on the policy distortions peddled by Mr. Gore in the piece.] Regarding the diplomacy of climate change mitigation, Mr. Gore wrote, The failure [of the Congress] to pass legislation to limit global-warming pollution ...
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The Mendacity of Al Gore's Rolling Stone Article, Part 2: Special Interests

This is Part 2 of a multipart series on the policy distortions peddled by Mr. Gore in the piece.] Regarding the influence of special interests on climate policy, Mr. Gore wrote, … don't give up on the political system. Even though it is rigged by ...
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The Mendacity of Al Gore's Rolling Stone Article, Part 1: “Bribes” and Climate

This is Part 1 of a multipart series on the policy distortions peddled by Mr. Gore in the piece.] Regarding the influence of “bribes” on climate policy, Mr. Gore wrote in Rolling Stone, Clearly, Mr. Gore hasn't been following the Congressional politics ...
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Will Australia Enact Carbon Taxes?

In a campaign speech on climate policy shortly before the 2010 election, Gillard claimed to have learned the “lessons” of CRPS's defeat. According to her, the government moved too fast because the “consensus” for cap-and-trade was not a “community ...
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MSM Loves Bipartisanship…Unless the Issue Is Environmental Policy

On cap-and-trade policy, I've noted in a previous post how the media willfully ignores that both parties oppose energy rationing. Instead, you'll read or hear about the “Republican War on Science,” whenever Congressional climate policy gets rejected by ...
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Did the Senate “Definitively” Reject Efforts to Rein in EPA? A Commentary on

A Commentary on Lautenberg's Rant by Marlo Lewis on April 18, 2011 On April 6, 2011, 50 Senators voted for S. 482, the Energy Tax Prevention Act, a bill to stop EPA from 'legislating' climate policy under the guise of implementing the Clean Air Act. ...
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Senate Vote on S.482: Fiddling While the Republic Burns

Last Thursday, 50 Senators voted for S. 482, the Energy Tax Prevention Act, a bill to stop EPA from 'legislating' climate policy under the guise of implementing the CAA. The bill did not pass because 60 votes were required for passage. ...
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Routed Greens Retreat

Krupp addressed the changing political climate at Fortune Magazine's Brainstorm Green Conference in early April and admitted that there is a “newfound hostility to climate policy.” He advised the environmental community to be “more humble” and “less ...
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HR 910: How to Respond to Hostile Amendments

The bill would stop EPA from 'legislating' climate policy under the guise of implementing the Clean Air Act (CAA), a statute enacted in 1970, years before global warming became a public policy issue. Debate will last for one hour. ...
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