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TEXT:Conservative Groups Raise Alarm on Climate ResolutionsAppeal to Rep. Hyde to Reverse Language on U.S. Obligationsby CEI StaffMay 6, 2003

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Washington, D.C., May 6, 2003LJ*The Competitive Enterprise Institute and32 other public policy groups are raising concerns about the approachCongress is taking to climate change policy in a joint letter to HouseInternational Relations Committee Chairman Henry Hyde (R-IL).

In an open joint letter released today, representatives from 33non-prof it organizations explain the flaws with alarmist statements aboutclimate change and science contained in the Senate Foreign RelationsCommitteeEbs State Department authorization bill, urging the Housecommittee not take the same path.:V The Senate committee findings includeexaggerations, misleading statements, out-of-context citations, andreliance on discredited sources.S? The Committee adopted resolutions basedon these flawed premises.

In the last Congress, the House International Relations Committeenarrowly approved similar language offered by Rep. Robert Menendez(D-NJ) .y One Republican (Chris Smith of New Jersey) joined 22 Democratsin favor of the amendment in 2001.?V Menendez is expected to offer theSenate provisions when the committee marks up the State Departmentauthorization bill on Wednesday.:V The Senate bill is scheduled to come tothe Senate floor on Wednesday as well.

LZ&In our view, the resolutions are even more flawed than the findings,08wrote Myron Ebell, Director of Global Warming Policy at CEI.y L&Thefirst two resolutions recommend that the U.S.adopt Kyoto-style policiesto limit energy use by American consumers.? The third resolution urgesthe U.S.to extend the Kyoto Protocol by negotiating a second round ofbinding limits on greenhouse gas emissions.L18

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tE&The Kyoto Protocol is a dead endtl(and so too are all similar approaches

based on forcing cuts in carbon dioxide emissions.:V Adopting Kyoto-style

policies would have enormous economic costs without making significant

reductions in greenhouse gas levels.y Just at the moment that the Kyoto

Protocol is collapsing and other industrialized countries that have

ratified the Protocol are discovering that they cannot meet their targets

is not the time to jump back on the Kyotobandwagon.L18

The full text and list of signatories to todayOl,s letter to Chairman Hyde

can be found at www.cei.org.SY CEI is a non-profit, non-partisan public

policy group dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited

government.S For more information about CEI, please visit our website at

www. ce .org.

Signers:

Fred L. Smith, President

Myron Ebell, Director, Global Warming Policy

Competitive Enterprise Institute

Paul M. Weyrich, National Chairman

Coalitions for America

Grover Norquist, President

Americans for Tax Reform

Paul Beckner, President

citizens for a Sound Economy

David Keene, Chairman

American Conservative Union

Malcolm Wallop, Chairman

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Frontiers of Freedom

Duane Parde, Executive Director

American Legislative Exchange Council

James L. Martin, President

60 Plus Association

Tom Schatz, President

Citizens Against Government Waste

Amy Ridenour, President

NationalCenterfor Public Policy Research

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., President

Center for Security Policy

Karen Kerrigan, Chairman

Small Business Survival Committee

Tom DeWeese, President

AmericanPolicyCenter

Joseph L. Bast, President

The Heartland Institute

Paul Driessen, Senior Fellow

Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow

Steven Milloy, President

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Citizens for the Integrity of Science

Lori Waters, Executive Director

Eagle Forum

Richard Lessner, Executive Director

American Renewal

Terrence Scanlon, President

CapitalResearchCenter

Dennis T. Avery, Director

Center for Global Food Issues, Hudson Institute

Leroy Watson, Legislative Director

The National Grange

Kevin L. Kearns, President

U. S.Business and Industry Council

Bonner Cohen, Senior Fellow

Lexington Institute

Michael Hardirnan, Legislative Director

AmericanLandRights Association

C. Preston Noell, III, President

Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.

Ron Pearson, President

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Council for America

Jeffrey B. Gayner, Chairman

Americans for Sovereignty

Chuck Muth, President

Citizen Outreach

Benjamin C. Works, Executive Director

SIRIUS

Allan Parker, Founder and CEO

Texas Justice Foundation

Alan Caruba, Founder

The NationalAnxietyCenter

Mark Q Rhoads, Acting President

U. S. Internet Council

Patrick Michaels, Professor of Environmental Sciences

Universityof Virginia

Robert Ferguson, Executive Director

Center for Science and Public Policy

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