Is it any surprise that they are reluctant to jump on the global-warming bandwagon?
After all, California's (nominally) Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed tough global-warming and state discount-drug laws.
The failure of the global-warming talks in The Hague is a case in point.
California and several New England states have filed lawsuits against utilities and automakers over global-warming emissions.
Additionally, Honeywell said this particular India facility will also develop low-global-warming refrigerants, blowing agents and other materials.
However, wrapping such measures in green paper and presenting them as anti-global-warming strategies might help their acceptance.
Those global-warming worriers are acknowledging that many biofuels ultimately result in more carbon dioxide wafting into the atmosphere.
Freon itself is a global-warming gas (and ozone wrecker) that is slated to be outlawed worldwide by 2040.
He's also founder of Protect Our Winters, an anti-global-warming group for which he dons a tie and lobbies Congress.
WSJ: Snowboarder Jeremy Jones's Secret Code of Snow | Creating
The stakes in the global-warming debate are much too high to ignore this observational evidence and declare the science settled.
In the early days of global-warming research, scientists argued that warming would worsen malaria by increasing the range of mosquitoes.
That satisfied global-warming sceptics in the ruling party but failed to address rising public concern over the environment and climate change.
Huge chunks of GDP and millions of jobs would be at the mercy of Congress and a vast new global-warming bureaucracy.
Now Rogers faces a potentially crippling threat--a "stroke-of-the-pen risk, " he calls it--if Congress imposes the wrong kind of controls on global-warming gases.
There's an atmospheric scientist whose chief accomplishment is supporting the global-warming hypothesis.
For the last five years the UN has run a program to encourage developing countries to cut down on emissions of global-warming gases.
Meanwhile, the plaintiffs in another closely watched global-warming case, Comer v.
In a recent survey of CDP's companies, 68% claimed to have made their global-warming strategy part of their core strategy, up from 48% last year.
Owens, a lawyer and global-warming zealot lacking any scientific expertise, was widely criticized as a fanatic and job-killer while he headed the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.
Over at the Brookings Institution, Mark Muro recently argued that a carbon tax, by itself, might not be enough to make a significant dent in U.S. global-warming emissions.
FORBES: In Which Brad Plumer Asks The Wrong Question About A Carbon Tax
Despite global-warming concerns, coal will continue to grow in popularity.
But there may be a non-global-warming explanation for the decrease.
He proposes making a deal with Democrats in which some of the Bush tax cuts become permanent in exchange for a carbon tax to deal with the global-warming crisis.
But the global-warming religionists are losing credibility with the American public precisely because they are too forceful and creative in delivering speculative global warming claims, not because they are too conservative and demure.
The global-warming club has narrowed to the U.S. and China, he said, making it tougher to bring in the other nations necessary to achieve any sort of political bargain with the industrial economies.
This week, as delegates from more than 170 nations meet in Kyoto, Japan, to try to hammer out a new global-warming treaty, it is clear that this cautious attitude has completely turned around.
In this case, the SG said, the state of Connecticut may well have a claim on behalf of citizens who might be harmed by rising sea levels and all other manner of global-warming ills.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided, in a convoluted and dissent-provoking way, not to decide a politically charged global-warming lawsuit against ExxonMobil, BP, AES, Dow Chemical and most of the rest of the American industrial establishment.
This news confounds the narrative about coal that has started to take hold in the U.S. The story goes that coal, nudged toward extinction by a glut of cheap, domestic natural gas and stiffening regulations, will begin to disappear as a fuel source and cause emissions of global-warming gases to decline.
FORBES: As Coal Use Drops In U.S., China and India Burn Even More
This ocean acidification theory is very convenient for global warming alarmists because it allows them to claim a major global warming-related crisis even when global temperatures fail to rapidly rise or rise in a manner that does not produce temperature-related crises.
FORBES: Another Global Warming Crisis Canceled For Lack Of Evidence
应用推荐