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The Politics of Climate

Proponents of cap-and-trade hope to harness the invisible hand of "the market" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), such as carbon dioxide.

The goal is to "cap" current GHG emissions in the U.S. and then to reduce those emissions...

 

The Kyoto Protocol is a worldwide treaty, in effect since 2004, binding signatory countries to lower greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit possible impacts on global warming. The only problem is that few signatory nations are...

Politics, not science, explains much of the hype and controversy over global warming.

The global warming issue and the proposed solutions to global warming neatly dovetail with many special political interests, like Europe's competitive...