by Marlo Lewis
September 23, 2009 @ 11:55 am
Today’s ClimateWire (subscription required) carries an analysis by reporter Lauren Morello that begins:
Say goodbye to “greenhouse gases.” Say hello to “carbon pollution” and ”heat-trapping gases.”
Morello observes a shift in the vocabulary U.S. government officials are using to talk about global warming — a change much in evidence in President Obama’s climate speech yesterday at the U.N.
Obama officials increasingly avoid the non-pejorative (although somewhat metaphorical) term “greenhouse gas” to describe carbon dioxide and instead refer to “carbon pollution” and “heat-trapping gases.”
Morello quotes NOAA chief Jane Lubchenco’s…
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by Fran Smith
September 15, 2009 @ 12:47 pm
President Obama’s slapping of tariffs on tires imported from China is the latest in a series of protectionist moves by the U.S. that threaten the world trading system, risk retaliation by the U.S.’s largest foreign creditor, and ultimately harm consumers. A Wall Street Journal editorial today titled “A Protectionist President” points out that Obama’s trade stance could be following in the disastrous footsteps of President Hoover.
The reality is that without the U.S. leading by example, the world trading order is likely…
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by Marlo Lewis
August 11, 2009 @ 4:47 pm
by Myron Ebell
August 11, 2009 @ 10:40 am
Living and working well inside the Beltway as I do, I’m often a little out of touch with the hurly-burly of American life. So I was surprised to learn from an e-mail yesterday from Justin Ruben of MoveOn.org that right-wing mobs are rampaging in our streets and shouting at Members of Congress. I imagine that most Americans are as shocked about this as I am. Nothing like it ever happened during President Bush’s invasion and occupation of Iraq or the…
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by Fran Smith
March 19, 2009 @ 2:24 pm
I admire Dan Ikenson’s work on trade issues at Cato. Usually I agree with his views. A notable exception is his post yesterday on Cato’s blog – “Too much hysteria about trade.”
No, Dan wasn’t hitting the current climate of China-bashing or the Teamsters’ on-going campaign against Mexican trucking and NAFTA or the “Buy American” provisions in the stimulus bill. Dan instead was taking to task newspapers like the Washington Post that have been warning readers about the rising tide of protectionism in this world…
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