Category Archives: Commentaries Essays
An Epidemic of OCD: Obsessive Carbon Dogma
Scenes from the Climate Inquisition
On February 2, an AEI research project on climate change policy that we have been organizing was the target of a journalistic hit piece in Britain’s largest left-wing newspaper, the Guardian. The article’s allegation–that we tried to bribe scientists to criticize the work of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)–is easy to refute. More troubling… Read More »
Cap-and-Trade Mirage
The Coming Climate Dictatorship
Cap and Fade
The Con is On: How Carbon Credits Neuter Cap & Trade
Treason in the Air
The Dog Ate Global Warming
Imagine if there were no reliable records of global surface temperature. Raucous policy debates such as cap-and-trade would have no scientific basis, Al Gore would at this point be little more than a historical footnote, and President Obama would not be spending this U.N. session talking up a (likely unattainable) international climate deal in Copenhagen in December. Steel… Read More »