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The Politics of Climate

Interest groups... It's a sad commentary on the times, but the truth of the matter is that a great deal of news, entertainment, and legislation is driven by special interest groups. Indeed, climate science is not free of their influence as can be seen in Climategate. In the topic pages below, Intellectual Takeout hopes to help you cut through the confusion to identify who and what is driving a lot of the climate policy in America and around the world as well as to help you understand the competing ideologies, business interests, and worldviews.

Climategate began with a collection of emails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia that were hacked and released to the public via the Internet on November 19, 2009. These emails...

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...

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...

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...

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