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Friday Interview: Digging Beneath the Headlines on Climate Change

RALEIGH — The Weather Channel trumpeted the headline “2012: Warmest year on record for U.S.” But neither that channel nor any other mainstream media outlet devoted much attention to a contradictory piece of global warming news that surfaced at about the same time. Roy Cordato, John Locke Foundation vice president for research and resident scholar, discussed the issue with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.

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Friday Interview: Global Warming Facts

RALEIGH — It’s hard to tune into a television or radio newscast or pick up a newspaper or news magazine without seeing a story about the dangers linked to global warming. We’re told that people are responsible for dangerous levels of greenhouse gas emissions that are endangering the environment. But what is the science really saying? Bob Ferguson, president of the Science and Public Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., has prepared state-by-state reports on climate change, including a February 2008 report for North Carolina. He discussed his findings with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.

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Recent Polls Show Energy Now Top Concern for Americans

RALEIGH — Energy is the top concern for Americans by a wide margin over any other issue, according to recent polls. A Rasmussen poll Aug. 6 showed that 64 percent of Americans want offshore drilling for domestic oil and natural gas as a way to lower gas prices. Fifty-five percent think the nation should build more nuclear plants.

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JLF: Cap-and-Trade Hits Consumers

RALEIGH — A “cap-and-trade” program for carbon dioxide emissions would hurt consumers and the poor disproportionately in North Carolina, according to a John Locke Foundation policy analyst. The N.C. Legislative Commission on Global Climate Change is considering a cap-and-trade program.

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No Climate Analysis Offered on C02 Regs

RALEIGH – The North Carolina Division of Air Quality, through its Climate Action Plan Advisory Group, is finalizing recommendations to reduce the volume of greenhouse gases emitted within the state, but the agency offers no analysis of how any options under consideration will affect temperatures or other weather conditions.

Paul Chesser
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Analyst Criticizes Al Gore

ASHEVILLE — There’s no scientific basis for the alarming message in Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth, and people should treat the film as a “lawyer’s brief” for one side of the global warming debate, Marlo Lewis, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told an Asheville crowd Wednesday.

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Friday Interview: Climate-Change Commission

RALEIGH — The John Locke Foundation’s Donna Martinez recently discussed the work of the North Carolina Legislative Commission on Global Climate Change with Roy Cordato, the John Locke Foundation’s vice president for research, who has been following the commission’s work very closely. (Go to http://carolinajournal.com/cjradio/ to find a station near you or to learn about the weekly CJ Radio podcast.)

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Global Warming Threat Said Overblown

RALEIGH — Lawmakers at the national, state and international level should avoid drastic measures to deal with global warming because of the huge economic costs for virtually no benefit, Dr. S. Fred Singer told a group of media and legislators Tuesday. The Kyoto Treaty calls for a 35 percent decrease in carbon dioxide emissions, which would require 35 percent less energy use, Singer said. If fully implemented, the global temperature difference would amount to one-fiftieth of a degree, a difference not even measurable by official weather service thermometers, he said.

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Smokestacks Built on Dubious Data

RALEIGH—The North Carolina Clean Smokestacks Plan, the report on which the state’s landmark 2002 legislation was built, was written by a left-wing environmental group and contained assumptions based on what some call “junk science.” Environmental Defense, which produced the plan, believes the United States should sign on to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and used last year’s big budget film fantasy "The Day After Tomorrow" as a launching point to warn about the dangers of global warming.

Paul Chesser
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Study: Global Warming Regs Would Cost NC

RALEIGH — A statewide program to reduce greenhouse gases to levels required by the United Nation’s Kyoto Protocol on global warming would likely cost North Carolina households an average of $7,249 a year and consumers and businesses $22.7 billion in higher energy costs and lost wages, according to a recent study by an independent think tank. The regulations would also significantly reduce revenues to the state.

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