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               (Miscellaneous Internet Libernet Reprints)
        
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                                Contents
        
        The titles that follow have been created or copied by
        the editor for ShareDebate International.
        
                         Global Warming: Apocalypse or Hot Air?
            An Institute of Economic Affairs (UK) Press Release
        
                         Proposed Oregon Property Ownership Act
                by Ed Snook (Liberty Network) and Kevin Starret
        
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                     Miscellaneous Libernet Entry-1
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        Date: Mon, 25 Apr 94 22:11:12 GMT
        From: igeldard@capital.demon.co.uk (Ian Geldard)
        Subject: IEA: Global Warming
        To: libernet@Dartmouth.EDU
        
                           * PRESS RELEASE *
        
                   The Institute of Economic Affairs
                  2 Lord North Street, London SWIP 3LB
                  Tel: +71 799 3745  Fax: +71 799 2137
        
                Global Warming: Apocalypse or Hot Air?,
                    by Roger Bate and Julian Morris,
                  IEA Studies on the Environment No.1,
                     Institute of Economic Affairs,
           ISBN: 0-255-36331-1, 56pp. #5.50 (including p&p).
        
        Belief that urgent and drastic action is needed to
        combat a tendency towards global warming is based on
        contestable science and unsound economics, according to
        Roger Bate and Julian Morris in a new IEA paper with a
        Foreward by Wilfred Beckerman. It is unnecessary to
        place swingeing taxes on fossil fuels nor is other
        government action required, say Bate and Morris in the
        first publication of the Institute of Economic Affairs'
        Environment Unit.
        
        Bate and Morris examine the scientific basis for the
        claim that warming is occuring and find it weak. The
        climatic models used are very poor at `predicting the
        past' - increases in temperature have been made much
        less than the models would have forecast given past
        increases in carbon dioxide emissions - and they are
        known to be different in many ways. Serious data
        problems abound: in particular, measured temperature
        increases probably exaggerate actual changes because,
        as urban areas expand, more temperature sensors are in
        such areas. It is unclear whether the temperature
        variations on which apocalyptic predictions are based
        are genuine trends or merely cycles which may have
        explanations other than the effects of carbon dioxide
        emissions. Bate and Morris also point out that there
        could be benefits from any warming which may be
        occuring:
        
            "If warming occurs at night, in winter and at high
            altitudes, as is predicted, then the effects may on
            balance be beneficial." (p.27)
        
        Standard economic analysis of global warming is also
        criticised. There are well-known defects in cost-
        benefit analysis, both in principle and in practice,
        which make it an unsuitable tool for policy-making.
        Economic models give widely different answers about the
        impacts of various policies to deal with warming. `No-
        regrets' policies probably *would* be regretted in
        practice. As Wilfred Beckerman says in his Foreward to
        the paper:
        
            "...today's environmental crusaders ... would, if
            taken seriously, impose enormous unjustified costs
            on society, and probably on those sections of
            society that can least bear them." (p.6)
        
        Bate and Morris argue that the only no-regrets policy
        which should be pursued is to abolish taxes and
        subsidies on fossil fuels to allow energy markets to
        function better than they do now.
        
        They reject the main current policy proposals for
        dealing with the global warming `problem' - in
        particular, limiting fossil fuel use by carbon taxes or
        other means and subsidising energy efficiency.
        Furthermore, they are sceptical of the value of
        subsidised research into the social and economic costs
        of global warming and into more complex models of
        climatic change.
        
        Government action is, according to Bate and Morris,
        likely to make matters worse rather than better.
        Already public money has been used to "...support
        hugely expensive public projects proposed by the Green
        lobby" (p.49) and such "railroading of investment" is
        likely to be counterproductive. Less than twenty years
        ago, the view prevailed that global cooling would be
        the major climatic issue of the future. If governments
        had acted then in accordance with that view they would
        have taken costly action which would have resulted in
        *increased* carbon dioxide emissions.
        
        The authors conclude:
        
            "There is a case for government withdrawal from
            actions which may be increasing GHG emissions -
            such as subsidising coal - but as regards further
            action we recommend governments do nothing." (p.49)
        
        Contacts:
        
        Roger Bate, Director, IEA Environment Unit  \
        Julian Morris, Fellow, IEA Environment Unit-Tel:+71 799 3745
        Professor Colin Robinson, Editorial Director/
        
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                     Miscellaneous Libernet Entry-2
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        Date: Wed, 06 Apr 94 16:19:23 PST
        From: Terry Liberty-Parker
              <rutgers!p49.f91.n382.z1.fidonet.org!Terry.Liberty-
        Parker@Dartmouth.EDU>
        
        Subject: Oregon Property Ownership Act
        To: libernet@Dartmouth.EDU
        
        X-Fido-Echo: LIBERTY
        To: Libernet
        Date:  6 Apr 94  09:21:56
        
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        * Forwarded by Terry Liberty-Parker (1:382/91.49)
        * Area : AEN_NEWS (AEN_NEWS)
        * From : Thomas Mick, 1:105/345 (05 Apr 94 10:38)
        * To   : All
        * Subj : Property Owners Protection and Empowerment Act
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        The following is a proposed amendment to the Oregon
        Constitution filed on March 1, 1994 by Ed Snook
        (Liberty Network) and Kevin Starret:
        
        
             PROPERTY OWNERS PROTECTION AND EMPOWERMENT ACT
        
        BE IT ENACTED by the People of the State of Oregon:
        
        PARAGRAPH 1. The Constitution of the State of Oregon is
        amended by creating a new Section to be added to
        Article XV and to be appropriately numbered to read:
        
            Section 1:
               (A) Not withstanding the limits of Article I,
        Section 18 of the Oregon Constitution, nor any existing
        Oregon Statute, neither the state, nor any of its
        agencies or subordinate government bodies, nor any
        employees thereof shall use any federal funds, state or
        local taxes, funds, monies or fees to regulate,
        deprive, take or diminish any person's rights in
        private property, the services of any person, or impair
        the obligation of any contract, in any manner for any
        public use or benefit without full market compensation.
        
               (B) Any person or persons injured, diminished or
        impaired for public benefit in a manner described in
        Section 1 (A) of this Act shall be entitled to a
        judgment which shall be determined by twelve circuit
        court jurors, who have been fully informed, in writing
        which includes all of this Act, of their constitutional
        powers to weigh both law and fact in reaching an
        indictment or verdict in any such case in the state.
        
               (C) Any party injured by violations of any part
        of this Act are permitted to sue for treble damages
        plus all costs and attorney fees. Judgment by the jury
        shall be final.
        
        
        PARAGRAPH 2. The following definitions shall apply in
        subsections (A), (B), and (C) of Section 1 of this Act.
            (a) Federal funding means any funds from any
        federal source to be used for any state or local
        purpose.
            (b) State, county and city funds are those that may
        be derived from taxes, sale of property, monies from
        fees or licenses or any other source.
            (c) Lottery or gaming funds means those derived
        from any state regulated lotteries or games.
            (d) Private property includes all real property,
        improvement, personal, professional and all other kinds
        of property of whatever nature.
            (e) Employees include those of the judiciary,
        special taxing and service districts, agency
        administrators, and appointees of state and interstate
        or inter-governmental commissions or pacts.
            (f) A "taking", pertaining to value or use, means
        to diminish, impair, steal, blemish, damage, harm,
        hurt, destroy or injure in any manner.
            (g) Impair means to destroy, obliterate,
        annihilate, liquidate, remove, injure or kill.
            (h) Diminish means to abate, moderate, modify,
        decrease, pare, qualify or contract.
            (i) Full compensation means the difference in value
        of the property before and after the property was
        identified as public use property, plus attorney fees
        or other costs incurred by the property owner to
        collect the amount due.
            (j) Public us or benefit means a situation wherein
        the public gains an advantage, consequence,
        distinction, importance, profit, reputation or repute.
        
        PARAGRAPH 3. If any provision, clause, or section of
        this measure is for any reason held to be invalid or
        unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction,
        the remaining portions or clauses and phrases shall not
        be affected but shall remain in full force and effect.
        
        -+-
        Origin: *Sons of Liberty*     Beaverton, Oregon (1:105/345)
        
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