RALEIGH — A group pushing North Carolina lawmakers to adopt costly climate-change policies has made a serious error while trying to justify its proposals, according to a John Locke Foundation analyst. The group chose a consultant with a major conflict of interest to manage a peer review of its work.
RALEIGH — State lawmakers decided this year to extend the life of the state’s Legislative Commission on Global Climate Change. That group will make recommendations on what steps, if any, North Carolina should take with respect to global warming and climate change. From its inception in 2005, the commission has veered from its original mission, according to Roy Cordato, vice president for research and resident scholar at the John Locke Foundation. Cordato discussed the commission with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
The war against inexpensive carbon-based fuels represents an attack on the morality of individual liberty and private property rights.
RALEIGH — Lawmakers should not extend the work of their state climate commission, unless that group stops ignoring the will of the legislature and starts doing the job it was assigned to do. A John Locke Foundation analyst offers that recommendation in a new Spotlight report.
RALEIGH – A new John Locke Foundation report guides North Carolinians through “vague, overbroad” policies proposed to help the state address global warming. The report shows how the policy proposals would raise taxes, hurt the poor, and limit consumers’ choices.
RALEIGH – An outside consultant’s report on proposed global warming policies is plagued by problems that render it “useless” to North Carolina policy makers. That’s the assessment of a new peer review from a Boston-based economic research group.
RALEIGH – A model the Appalachian State University Energy Center used to project the economic impact of N.C. climate change policies has “serious flaws” that undermine its credibility. That’s the verdict of a new peer review report from a Boston-based economic research group.
More taxes are on the way for North Carolinians, unless the state rejects proposed policies for addressing climate change.
Since a good economist would doubt the claim that higher taxes and increased regulation promote prosperity, advocates for those taxes and regulations must look elsewhere for support.
RALEIGH – An outside consultant likely used “seriously flawed” methods to help craft state global warming policy proposals for North Carolina. That’s according to a new assessment from a Boston-based economic research group.
RALEIGH – North Carolinians should question the process that’s leading to proposals for fighting global warming in the Tar Heel state. That’s the warning from a John Locke Foundation analyst who has monitored the process.
