The Obama campaign won a hard-fought, expensive contest with an expensive but cost-effective strategy of attack ads, turnout operations, and favorable media coverage.
In a Sunday piece, The Charlotte Observer employs all the steps used by the mainstream media to mislead readers.
RALEIGH — The recent Gulf oil spill has prompted some climate alarmists to renew their push for federal cap-and-trade legislation to limit carbon emissions. Even before the spill, alarmists sought ways to renew interest in government restrictions on carbon dioxide. One of their chief obstacles was publicity surrounding the Climategate controversy. Earlier this year, Paul Chesser discussed Climategate for a John Locke Foundation audience. The special correspondent for The Heartland Institute and director of Climate Strategies Watch also discussed the topic with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
Al Gore isn’t a candidate to be the next president of the United States. That office would mean a demotion for him.
RALEIGH — Foundations that promote a troubling forecast from the threat of global warming might be more intimately involved than previously known with North Carolina’s hired directors for its Climate Action Plan Advisory Group.
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.
The News & Observer didn't look far enough when it did a story a study that says new taxes and regulations meant to fight global warming will generate more than 300,000 jobs for the state.
RALEIGH — A consultant to North Carolina’s Climate Action Plan Advisory Group yesterday acknowledged that his organization has conducted no cost-benefit analysis of recommendations CAPAG has made to a special legislative commission on global warming.
RALEIGH – The Center for Climate Strategies, which is finalizing recommendations for North Carolina to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, announced over the weekend that it would perform similar work on a national scale as part of the Clinton Global Initiative, an ambitious effort sponsored by a foundation named for the former U.S. president.
A group funded by left-wing organizations is playing a key, but underpublicized, role in shaping North Carolina's policy for addressing global warming.
RALEIGH — The Center for Climate Strategies, which is using funds from foundations that promote carbon-dioxide constraints because of global-warming fears, is influencing government climate-change policy in several states, including North Carolina.
