ISIL Freedom Network: Global > Scholarly and In-Depth Studies > Global Warming

Bootleggers, Baptists, and Global Warming
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Author: Bruce Yandle
Country: United States

From the PERC Policy Series. Outlines how global warming regulations are becoming a platform for the favor-seeking of special interests.

Managing planet Earth: Adaptation and cosmology
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Curtis A. Pendergraft
Country: United States

Is global climate change the result of human activity? If it is, what happens to liberty when social engineering reaches the global level? Adobe PDF. (11/99)

A Current View of the Kyoto Climate Change Treaty
Source: Center for the Study of American Business
Author: William H. Lash III
Country: United States

"Just the large reductions in CO 2 emissions required to meet Kyoto's goal for the United States by 2010 -- equivalent to more than a 30 percent reduction from the anticipated level of emissions -- should cause policymakers to look before leaping." (8/99)

What Should We Do About Global Warming?
Source: Center for the Study of American Business
Author: Murray Weidenbaum
Country: United States

A policy brief suggesting that before we act we should truthfully examine the seriousness of this problem and the feasibility of the typical "solutions." Sometimes advocating common sense requires courage. (8/97)

The Questionable Science Behind the Global Warming Scare
Source: The Heartland Institute
Author: Joseph L. Bast
Country: United States

Heartland Policy Study. Lists seven things you should know about global warming. Very thorough. (Also available in PDF for free, and printed for $5.)

Uncertainties and assumptions driving the Kyoto Protocol model
Source: Center for the Study of American Business
Author: Milka S. Kirova
Country: United States

If you take the global warming model apart piece by piece, you're left with a lot of pieces of estimation and very few pieces of precise measurement. Adobe PDF. (12/99)

Energy Efficiency: No Silver Bullet for Global Warming
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Jerry Taylor
Country: United States

The Climate Change Technology Initiative (CCTI), a federal government program to reduce industrial emissions, is a "sham" that is unworkable and misleading. This report, available in PDF format, exposes the problems with the CCTI. (10/20/99)

Climate Change 95: An Appraisal
Source: Heartland Institute
Author: Vincent Gray
Country: United States

There is nothing in the 1995 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report to support the introduction of drastic or economically damaging measures to control greenhouse gas emissions. Heartland Policy Study No. 84. (9/97)

Global temperature changes throughout history
Source: Heartland Institute/Environment & Climate News
Author: Dr. William Grierson
Country: United States

"Geological evidence indicates wide variations in mean temperatures and CO2 levels in past interglacial and even postglacial, Holocene, periods. Some have been correlated with volcanic activity or meteor showers. Archeology now indicates the collapse of some major Bronze Age civilizations was due to droughts associated with volcanic eruptions." (06/01)

Global warming policy: Some economic implications
Source: National Center for Policy Analysis
Country: United States

Report points out that the Kyoto accord's implementation would be of negligible environmental benefit, but would create a tremendous economic cost. (5/99)

What's happening to our climate?
Source: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Author: James Hansen, Reto Ruedy, Jay Glascoe and Makiko Sato
Country: United States

"Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought." (3/00)

The trouble with ozone
Source: Greening Earth Society
Country: United States

A technical look at global warming and the ozone hole. It's not at all clear either is related to human activity. (4/20/00)

Global warming: The mother of all environmental scares
Source: Centre for Independent Studies/Policy
Country: United States

Evidence that humans are responsible for the phenomenon called "global warming" continues to be unreliable and forms a poor basis for making major changes to civilization. (1998)

A plain English guide to climate change
Source: Reason Public Policy Institute
Author: Kenneth Green
Country: United States

Ken Green provides a thorough and current explanation of global climate change. The text is succinct and very easy to read. (8/18/00)

Cooling overheated global warming rhetoric
Source: NCPA
Country: United States

"The incoming President should realize, however, that although global warming is a serious issue, our knowledge of its causes and consequences is far too speculative to justify precipitous action intended to prevent it." (12/20/00)

Latest global warming report already obsolete
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Paul J. Georgia
Country: United States

"If recent studies are correct there would be little justification for Kyoto-style policies that would ultimately impede humanity’s ability to provide itself with the wealth- and health-enhancing benefits of modern civilization." (05/16/01)

New perspectives in climate change: What the EPA isn't telling us
Source: Independent Institute
Country: United States

An overview of scientifically-refereed research contrasted with the politically-driven work at the UN and EPA. (PDF file) (7/03)

The way of warming
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Patrick J. Michaels, Paul C. Knappenberger and Robert E. Davies
Country: United States

In a recent report on global warming, three scientists concluded that most warming is taking place in Siberia and northwestern North America, and that two-thirds of the observed warming during the second half of the 20th century occurred in the cold half of the year. According to the study, the effects of postwar warming have been benign or beneficial. (Adobe Acrobat) (2000)

Reducing Global Warming through forestry and agriculture
Source: Reason Public Policy Institute
Author: Steven R. Schroeder and Kenneth Green
Country: United States

This report examines a "simple and cost-effective way to significantly slow the buildup of greenhouse gases — a natural process known as carbon sequestration." It is available in Adobe PDF. (07/01)

In sickness and in health: the Kyoto Protocol versus global warming
Source: Hoover Institution
Author: Thomas Gale Moore
Country: United States
E-mail: hoover@free-market.net

"Advocates of curbing greenhouse emissions and ratifying the Kyoto Protocol contend that global warming will bring disease and death to Americans. Is this likely? Should Americans fear a health crisis?" After reviewing the evidence, the author answers "No." (08/00)

Q and A About Forests and Global Climate Change
Source: Reason Public Policy Institute
Author: Kenneth Green
Country: United States

This report is "an easy-to-understand guide that identifies what carbon sequestration techniques need to be implemented to slow global warming and help buy time to allow development of alternative energy-related technologies." It is available in Adobe PDF. (11/01)

Global Warming and the Kyoto Protocol: Paper Tiger, Economic Dragon
Source: American Legislative Exchange Council
Author: Patrick J. Michaels
Country: United States

In this report Michaels is critical of exaggerated global warming arguments, and exposes "the economic and scientific poverty of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming." It is available in Adobe PDF. (04/22/02)

Limitations of climate models
Source: NCPA
Author: David R. Legates
Country: United States

World leaders are making critical decisions based upon predictions of General Circulation Models or Global Climate Models (GCMs) that humans are causing global climate change or global warming. But these models are limited in important ways. (05/16/02)

A global warming primer
Source: The National Center for Public Policy Research
Author: Gerald E. Marsh
Country: United States

"The purpose of this primer is to help the reader determine whether our understanding of the Earth's climate is adequate to predict the long term effects of carbon dioxide released as a result of the continued burning of fossil fuels." (PDF File ) (07/02)

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