This study provides a comprehensive assessment of expenditures and spending proposals by the Clinton Administration on global climate change. Due to increases in fuel costs eating up the slim profits of farmers, implementing the Kyoto Protocol would devastate American agriculture. The average farmer would lose between as much as one half of his or her annual income. Heartland Policy Study No. 87. Executive summary available.
Global treaties bring high risks to economies and promise low returns to environmental health.
Yes, according to new studies on lawn growth. A Cambridge-based group of scientists charged with serving the public's social interest appear to be serving their own private interests, especially when it comes to reporting on global warming. The recent effort by the National Assessment Synthesis Team to predict 21st Century global climate change was a valiant one, but predictions are still highly uncertain. Estimations of the costs of the Kyoto remedy remain both high and certain. United States Kenneth Green, Director of Reason Institute's Environmental Program, responds to the draft National Assessment Report on climate change.