> Anybody every investigate these people? Is this one of the "Wise >Use" groups? > > > >Gretchen Randall, Director >John P. McGovern, MD Center for Environmental and Regulatory Affairs >The National Center for Public Policy Research > >Contact the author at: 773-857-5086 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] >The National Center for Public Policy Research, Chicago office >3712 North Broadway - PMB 279 >Chicago, IL 60613
http://www.nationalcenter.org/ The National Center for Public Policy Research - Conservative Think Tank For example: http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA412.html National Policy Analysis #412: Kyoto Global Warming Treaty Losing Support Around the World While Thriving in U.S. Senate - June 2002 "The U.S. Senate has packed its energy bill with massive new "greenhouse gas" and "global warming provisions," even though the Kyoto Protocol, commonly referred to as the global warming treaty, is all but dead as leaders in nation after nation take a fresh look at the flawed treaty." Meanwhile: "Japan ratifies Kyoto Protocol, urges other nations to follow" (eTaiwanNews - 19:01 4 Jun 2002) "EU ratifies Kyoto Protocol" (Eu Business - 7:06 4 Jun 2002) Etc etc etc. In spite of the awesome weight of the US, in most industrialised nations the Kyoto Protocol isn't even a political issue anymore, it's just a fact of life. Different planet, apparently. "Second, many scientists, including Richard Lindzen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Salllie Baliunas and Willie Soon of Harvard University, have correctly pointed out that none of the global warming predicted by computer models has occurred. Further, they have raised strong doubts that mankind can affect climate at all." Meanwhile: June 3, 2002 Climate Changing, U.S. Says in Report By ANDREW C. REVKIN http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/03/science/03CLIM.html?pagewanted=print &position=top "In a stark shift for the Bush administration, the United States has sent a climate report to the United Nations detailing specific and far-reaching effects that it says global warming will inflict on the American environment. In the report, the administration for the first time mostly blames human actions for recent global warming. It says the main culprit is the burning of fossil fuels that send heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere." To which the National Center for Public Policy Research publishes a laughably weak "rebuttal". Quite surprising they couldn't do better than this: http://www.nationalcenter.org/PRGW602.html Press Release: Bush Endorsement of Global Warming Theory Wrongly Reported - June 2002 Nah - he didn't say it's dark, he just said there wasn't any light. From PR Watch: http://www.prwatch.org/ "The National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) was formed in the 1980s to support the Reagan administration's military adventures in Central America. It now calls itself a "communications and research foundation dedicated to providing free market solutions to today's public policy problems"." They support Big Tobacco, funding from Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, etc. Anyway, you get the picture. "Auto mileage standards kill Americans. Why doesn't anyone care?" And so on. Sort of like Alex Avery of the Hudson Institute announcing that "Organic farming could kill billions of people", LOL! Same sort of folks, same sort of distortion and outright BS, same sort of backers, same sort of "science". Same tactics. Best Keith >-- >Harmon Seaver >CyberShamanix >http://www.cybershamanix.com Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
