Policy Report

A North Carolina Citizen’s Guide to Global Warming

posted on in Energy & Environment, Spending & Taxes

North Carolina is headed toward imposing major new regulations and taxes on the consumption and production of energy, all in the name of fighting global warming. But the climate hysteria on which they are based has nothing to do with reality. Whatever the risks of future climate change, they pale in comparison to the risks of the “wrenching transformation” sought by climate alarmists.

Joel Schwartz is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and an adjunct scholar at the John Locke Foundation. He was formerly the executive officer of a California government agency charged with evaluating the state’s vehicle emissions inspection program. ...

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