Contrary to current policy approaches that focus on mitigating GHG emissions to the exclusion of everything else, resilience should be considered the default climate strategy.
Institute for National Strategic Studies
September 30, 2009
Kenneth P. Green discusses the limits of renewable and alternative fuels for providing energy security, or energy independence.
Alberta's funding of carbon-capture technology is taxpayer-funded publicity for private companies.
Even with major increases in efficiency and conservation efforts, the world must triple its energy supplies over the next forty years.
Democrats pushing hardest for the Waxman-Markey climate change bill are determined to have it signed into law before the Copenhagen climate conference in December.
AEI resident scholar Kenneth P. Green's interview on The Reef Tank about his contributions to climate change education.
Five reasons people might not accept the catastrophic modeling exercises and horror stories that have been presented as actual climate change data.
Renewables have their uses, but they are a distraction from our goal that should be to expand our supply of affordable energy.
Waxman-Markey is a bundle of contradictions.
Canadians care deeply about the quality of the environment and the protection of nature.
The same level of openness, transparency, and consultation in the scientific elements of the decision-making process should infuse every element of the public policy development process.
Congress should ditch cap-and-trade and consider a revenue-neutral carbon tax accompanied by the elimination of the crazy-quilt of energy regulations that distort energy markets.
Many analysts have written about the innumerable problems with cap-and-trade, and most of the problems that have been predicted have found their way into the current cap-and-trade law working its way through Congress.
The argument that the developed world should be the first to cut greenhouse gas emissions is illogical when viewing climate change as the long-term challenge it is purported to be.
The Obama administration is finding that greenhouse gas control is hard in practice, especially the very first step.
If green technology is profitable, why does the private sector need government subsidies to pursue it?
The average household spends nearly as much on the consumption of indirect energy as it does on direct energy consumption.
Eighty-five percent of everything Americans do with energy might soon be regulated by the EPA.
Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty has run afoul of two fallacies with his new Green Energy Act.
We can expect a proliferation of new regulations that will reach into every area of American life and commerce.
The good news for those who want to reduce energy consumption but cannot make major lifestyle changes is that there are unexplored options for reducing energy use.
CQ Researcher
December 1, 2008
Could Obama's energy plan actually work?
AEI Online
November 24, 2008
Democrats in Congress have asked the "Big Three" domestic automakers to provide a plan by early December that would return the auto industry to profitability.
Will environmentalists be permitted to transform the Detroit bailout? If so, automakers and taxpayers will suffer.
AEI Online
November 19, 2008
Barack Obama's "green jobs" plan would create jobs at the expense of other jobs.
Barack Obama's "green jobs" plan would indeed create jobs, but it would do so by killing other jobs. Is that really what Americans want?
Voters will have trouble finding clarity or rationality in Barack Obama's and John McCain's energy policies.
Contrary to popular belief, vastly expanding our use of ethanol fuel would increase food prices, greenhouse gas emissions, and local air and water pollution.
Contrary to popular belief, ethanol fuel will do little or nothing to increase our energy security or stabilize fuel prices.
Iran makes it clear that they are willing to use human shields to protect their nuclear facilities.
It was foolish of the Bush administration to designate the polar bear as an endangered species.
The Bush administration must decide on whether toadd polar bears to theendangered species listby May 16. Its answer may have serious consequences for the U.S. energy economy.
Polar bear populations are not declining, which throws cold water on environmentalists' claims that we need to leave the Arctic untouched.
Should the polar bear be protected under the Endangered Species Act?
The Bush administration should seriously consider the evidence before designating polar bears as a threatened species.
Global warming and greenhouse gases are affecting the earth's climate, but it is also part of a historical trend.
A new book by Lawrence Solomon profiles nearly three dozen top scientists who have resisted the pull of climate alarmism.
We need apragmatic middle ground that seeks solutions to environmental problems that are compatible with democratic capitalism.
The three presidential candidates have different goals for making the United States more environmentally considerate.
Despite what many believe, it is impossible togain energy independence.
Ed Begley Jr.'s book Living Like Ed illustrates the sacrifices inherent in eco-friendly living.
Adopting cap-and-trade in the United States will cause economic harm without producing any environmental or climate-protective benefits.
Republican candidates need to find policy approaches that embrace environmental values but are compatible with fiscal responsibility, limited government, free markets, and personal responsibility.
The IPCC moves too slowly and its reports omit too much recent evidence on key climate variables to provide up-to-date input into climate policy debates.
Al Gore identified the problem, but his cure is worse than the disease.
Do global warming initiatives create jobs?
An assessment of Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's decision to shut down Ontario's four remaining coal power plants.
The conclusion of adebate over policy responses to greenhouse gas emissions.
A continuing debate over policy responses to greenhouse gas emissions.
A debate over policy responses to greenhouse gas emissions.
Which climate policy approach will succeed the Kyoto Protocol: cap-and-trade or a carbon tax?
While perhaps well intentioned, energy subsidies undermine strong energy markets.
What is to blame for high gas prices?
Canada recently announced a move away from Kyoto's binding emissions targets.
Mostof Gore's plan to reduce the effects of global warmingis aimed at forcing his favored lifestyle choices on consumers and businesses.
The government should be spending more on deep sea research than on deep space research.
The Supreme Court's ruling in Massachusetts v. EPAcould prove very costly.
There are many reasons to be optimistic about environmental improvement.
AEI Online
February 22, 2007
A growing worldwide effort to stifle anyone with doubts about the proposed causes of global warming is proving to be very troubling.
Green and Hayward respond to the chilling effect of the global warming consensus.
The right thing to do is to strike all energy subsidies, tax the environmental harms that energy demonstrably creates, and let the market sort it out.
To help elucidate the mysteries of climate change, an environmentalist answers fourteen questions that separate hard fact from speculation.
Rumor has it that the Bush administration is considering a new policy that will “change the whole nature of the discussion” regarding energy and climate policy.
When it comes to fossil fuels, the political class (mostly, but not entirely, on the left) has developed a case of "investigitis."
The inconvenient truth is that greenhouse gas reduction is not simply a matter of plugging in compact fluorescent bulbs or driving hybrid cars.
It's time to look past mitigation and explore what adaptation to climate change means.
There might be reasons to go vegan or organic, whether for ethical or individual metabolic reasons, but saving the Earth isn't among them.
Are greenhouse gas controls a step backward regarding environmental policy?
Is Governor Schwarzenegger doing all he can to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases in California?
Politicians are scrambling to find ways to reduce the pain of highenergyprices, but the United States needs to increase its supplies of oil, not demonize oil companies.
Alarmist climate scientists are increasingly the object of derision by people with enough power to reach even the general public.
Fraser Forum
August 1, 2004
Are there 1,700 autopsies declaring air pollution as the cause of death? Are 6,000 people admitted to hospital each year with a diagnosis of “air pollution” as the cause?
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