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Human Events. Hay 5. 3003

Global Warming Bills Could Sneak Through Congress

By Myron Eboll

The scientific case for global warming alarmism grows ever weaker. and
President Bush has long since announced he will not submit the Kyoto
global?warming treaty to the Senate for ratification. hut congressional
liberals are still making mighty efforts to revive this dead horse.

In the next few weeks they will try to saddle several pieces of
legislation with global?warming amendments.

Four of the Senate's leading global?warming grandstanders. John HcCain
Joseph Lieberman John Kerry and James
Jeffords il-Vt-) are likely to play prominent roles in the follies on the
Senate floor. But so far the real action has been in two committees.

In Harsh, senate Energy Committee Chairman Pete Domenici 
released a draft of comprehensive energy legislation for comment. The
draft included a climate title that would create a White House climate
crar. require the administration to produce a strategy to 'stahilire and
over time reduce net U- 5. emissions of greenhouse gases.? and give
companies incentives for producing less energy.

Limiting greenhouse gas emissions. which is also the goal of the Kyoto
treaty; would require Americans'using much less coal. oil. and natural
gasr since these three fuels now provide most of America?s energy.
Switching to alternatives would raise prices dramatically for American
consumers. in the process weakening the U.5. economy.

Domenici's plan was to give the global warming alarmists half a loaf and
hope that they would be satisfied. Alas. appeasement doesn?t work when
dealing with environmental pressure groups. Good conservatives on the
committee asked that the climate title he removed. a coalition of
conservative and free?market groups lled by my own Competitive Enterprise
Institutei kicked up a ruckus in public. Domenici listened and proceeded
to pass his energy bill out of on April 3d without any climate
provisions.

Let it Die

But that is not the end of the story- When the energy bill comes to the
Senate floor. probably in the next week or two. global warming amendments
will be offered by the usual grandstanders and may pass. The energy bill
passed by the House on April 11 contains nothing on dl?h?l warming- 5G it
will be up to a House?Senate conference committee to work out the
differences if the Senate puts something in.

Turning to the Foreign Relations Committee. on April 9 Chairman Richard
Lugar {R-Ind.} accepted Ranking Member Joe Biden's "sense of
Congress on climate change' amendment without a vote. Eiden?s amendment
proclaims global warming alarmism as established scientific fact and then
calls for Kyoto?style rationing policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
To top everything. it then calls on the administration to negotiate a new