Environment

As human society grows in size and complexity, our interaction with and impact on our environment becomes more important.  Over the last century, our understanding of natural processes has increased dramatrically but many areas of major importance are still poorly understood. 

The Marshall Institute is contributing to the debate by providing studies, analyses and commentary on some of the chief issues facing decisionmakers today.  The Civic Environmentalism program is developing a new perspective for environmental policymaking that emphasizes local decisionmaking.  The Institute's climate change program involves a critical examination of the scientific basis for global climate change policy.

Civic Environmentalism

• "New Thinking on Environmental Policy: Civic Environmentalism for Today's Environment," August 1, 2003
• "Civic Environmentalism: Developing a Research and Action Agenda," Marc Landy and Charles T. Rubin, June 30, 2003
• "New Thinking on Environmental Policy," Jeff Kueter, February 1, 2003
• "Civic Environmentalism: A New Approach to Policy," Marc Landy and Charles T. Rubin, December 15, 2001
• "The Principle of Compromise," Charles T. Rubin, May 15, 2001
• "Decentralization of Environmental Policymaking: Civic Environmentalism in Theory and Practice. Proceedings of the Civic Environmentalism Working Group Conference," August 19, 2000
• "Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists," Peter Huber, January 11, 2000
• "Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists," Peter Huber, January 1, 2000
• "Our Response to the Sierra Club Attack on Environmental Education," Jeffrey Salmon, May 22, 1998
• "We're All 'Corporate Polluters' Now," Jeffrey Salmon, The Wall Street Journal, July 2, 1997
• "Are We Building Environmental Literacy?: A Report of the Independent Commission on Environmental Education," April 15, 1997

Climate Change

• "Creating Technologies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Intensity: Policy Options and Opportunities," David Montgomery, March 1, 2005
• "Climate Issues and Questions," December 7, 2004
• "New Report Undermines Climate Change Claims," December 7, 2004
• "Meteorologist Likens Fear of Global Warming to 'Religious Belief'," December 2, 2004
• "Climate Alarm- Where Does It Come From?," Richard Lindzen, December 1, 2004
• "Are the IPCC's Global Warming Forecasts based on Faulty Economics?," David Henderson, November 19, 2004
• "Senate Commerce Hearing Promotes Climate Alarmism," November 15, 2004
• "The Global Earth Observation System," Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., October 12, 2004
• "Concern, Not Over-reaction: A Response to Business Week Climate Change Cover Story," October 1, 2004
• "No Emission Reductions with Russian Ratification," September 24, 2004
• "Uncertainties in Climate Science Need Resolution," September 15, 2004
• "Climate Sensitivity - Still a SWAG," William O'Keefe and Jeff Kueter, September 1, 2004
• "Much Ado About Nothing: The New York Times' Claim of "a striking shift" in the Bush Administration Portrayal of Climate Science," Jeff Kueter, September 1, 2004
• "Read With Care - Your Blood May Reach the Boiling Point," Jeff Kueter, September 1, 2004
• "The True Costs of the Climate Stewardship Act," William O'Keefe, September 1, 2004
• "New York Times Leaps Before Looking," Jeff Kueter, August 26, 2004
• "Global Warming and Science Policy: O'Keefe Appears at Debate with UCS on Politicizing Science," June 11, 2004
• "The Challenge of Making Climate Science Relevant," William O'Keefe, June 3, 2004
• "24 Frequently Asked Questions on Climate Change," May 27, 2004
• "New Climate Study Finds," May 5, 2004
• "Climate Models: A Primer," William O'Keefe and Jeff Kueter, May 1, 2004
• "Global Warming and the Hydrological Cycle," David R. Legates, April 16, 2004
• "Precipitation and the Enhanced Hydrological Cycle," David R. Legates, April 12, 2004
• "Potential for Reducing Carbon Emissions from Non-Annex B Countries through Changes in Technology," David Montgomery, March 31, 2004
• "Cold Facts on Global Warming," James Schlesinger, January 22, 2004
• "Where are all the Extinct Species?," Jeff Kueter, January 14, 2004
• "Climate debate isn't about action, it's about knowledge," William O'Keefe, January 6, 2004
• "Global Warming Debate Heats Up Capitol Hill," November 19, 2003
• "The IPCC, the "Hockey Stick" Curve, and the Illusion of Experience," Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, November 18, 2003
• "Temperature Changes in the Troposphere: Beyond the IPCC," November 1, 2003
• "Was the Climate of the 20th Century Unusual? - A Reprise," November 1, 2003
• "Climate Change Skepticism: A Virtue or Vice?," William O'Keefe, October 1, 2003
• "Unraveling the Puzzle: Differing Economic Estimates of Climate Policy," Michael Canes, September 23, 2003
• "The Increase in Global Temperature: What It Does and Does Not Tell Us," Robert Balling, September 1, 2003
• "Global Warming Smear Targets," David R. Legates, August 26, 2003
• "The Specter of Species Extinction," July 29, 2003
• "The Specter of Species Extinction: Will Global Warming Decimate Earth's Biosphere?," Sherwood B. Idso and Craig Idso, July 29, 2003
• "Combatting global warming would be a waste," Sallie Baliunas, July 25, 2003
• "Climate Policy and Energy Use and Objective Realities," William O'Keefe, June 1, 2003
• "Was the 20th Century Climate Unusual? Exploring the Lessons and Limits of Climate History," Willie Soon, May 16, 2003
• "Coaxing Nature to Reveal 1,000 Years of Earth's Climate," Boston Globe, May 2, 2003
• "20th Century Temperature Trends Not Unusual, Finds Marshall Institute Report," April 17, 2003
• "Lessons & Limits of Climate History: Was the 20th Century Climate Unusual?," Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas, April 17, 2003
• "Reconstructing Climatic and Environmental Changes of the Past 1000 Years: A Reappraisal," Willie Soon, Sallie Baliunas, Sherwood B. Idso, Craig Idso and David R. Legates, April 11, 2003
• "Extreme Weather Events: Examining Causes and Responses," Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon, March 25, 2003
• "Cap and Trade: The Moral Equivalent of Bamboozle," William O'Keefe, March 1, 2003
• "Improving the Value and Management of Climate Research," March 1, 2003
• "Marshall Institute Comments on the Draft Strategic Plan of the U. S. Climate Change Science Program," February 28, 2003
• "Marshall Institute Commends National Academies' Climate Science Review," February 26, 2003
• "Remarks Before the Final Plenary Session of the U.S. Climate Change Program's Planning Workshop for Scientists and Stakeholders," William O'Keefe, December 5, 2002
• "Remarks Before the Resource Management Decision Support Panel of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program's Planning Workshop for Scientists and Stakeholders," William O'Keefe, December 4, 2002
• "A Global Climate and Energy Project - Big Ambitions at Stanford," William O'Keefe, December 2, 2002
• "Climate Change and Public Policy: European and American Approaches to Kyoto," Margo Thorning, September 24, 2002
• "Climate Change and Ecosystems," Leonard Bernstein, July 30, 2002
• "Marshall Institute: New Epa Report Clouds Climate Change Debate," William O'Keefe, June 5, 2002
• "Climate Science and Policy: Making the Connection," James Schlesinger and Robert Sproull, December 4, 2001
• "Time for a Real National Assessment of Climate Change," Jeffrey Salmon, February 15, 2001
• "Climate Forecasts, Global Warming and the National Assessment," David R. Legates, January 3, 2001
• "Climate Models and the National Assessment," David R. Legates, November 10, 2000
• "Calculating the Climatic Impacts of Increased CO2: The Issue of Model Validation," Willie Soon, Sallie Baliunas, Kirill Ya. Kondratyev, Sherwood B. Idso and Eric S. Posmentier, September 30, 2000
• "Climate Change: Real and Imaginary," Jeffrey Marsh, July 10, 2000
• "Supercomputers and Super Surprises," Jeffrey Marsh, July 10, 2000
• "Climate Change: A Political Assessment," William O'Keefe, June 13, 2000
• "Our Best Response to Climate Change: Economic Growth," Jeffrey Marsh, March 21, 2000
• "A Guide to Global Warming - Questions and Answers on Climate Change," January 15, 2000
• "Increasing Carbon Dioxide and Global Climate Change," Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon, January 1, 2000
• "Can Effect Come Before Cause in Global Warming?: New Findings on a Basic Relationship," November 8, 1999
• "Global Climate Change Cannot be Predicted," November 18, 1998
• "Global Warming: More on the Fading Crisis," November 9, 1998
• "Hot Times or Hot Air: The Sun in the Science of Global Warming*," Sallie Baliunas, August 7, 1998
• "Global Warming and El Niņo - No Connection," July 9, 1998
• "1997: Warmest Year Since 1400?," June 30, 1998
• "Letter to President Clinton," January 22, 1998
• "Will Global Warming Cause an Increase in Hurricanes and Severe Storms?," November 19, 1997
• "Global Warming Projections vs. the Data: Are the Data Reliable?," November 12, 1997
• "Is There a Scientific Consensus on the Causes of Global Warming?," November 5, 1997
• "A Scientific Discussion of Climate Change - Comments on," Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon, November 1, 1997
• "Do We Need to Act Now on CO2 Emission Limits?," October 28, 1997
• "Is Global Warming Caused by Human Activities?," October 21, 1997
• "Predictions of Warming Continue to Drop," October 14, 1997
• "Are Human Activities Causing Global Warming?," Sallie Baliunas, January 1, 1995
• "Climate Science Program Shows Limit to Human Understanding,"

The Kyoto Accord

• "Putting Climate Science and Kyoto in Perspective," William O'Keefe, October 8, 2002
• "The Kyoto Protocol Threatens European Economies," September 25, 2002
• "Candor about Kyoto," William O'Keefe, June 1, 2001
• "It is Time to Move Beyond Kyoto," January 4, 1999
• "National Security and Military Policy Issues Involved in the Kyoto Treaty," Jeffrey Salmon, May 18, 1998

The Sun-Climate Connection

• "Sun-Climate and Cosmic Ray-Climate Resources on the Web," February 5, 2002
• "Climate History and the Sun," Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon, June 5, 2001
• "First Eurocongress on the Solar Cycle and Terrestrial Climate," Willie Soon, Sallie Baliunas, Kirill Ya. Kondratyev, Sherwood B. Idso and Eric S. Posmentier, September 30, 2000
• "Comments on New Danish Solar Study," Willie Soon, April 2, 2000
• "The Sun Also Warms," Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon, March 24, 2000
• "Solar Variability and Climate Change," Willie Soon, January 10, 2000
• "Why So Hot? Don't Blame Man, Blame the Sun," Sallie Baliunas, August 5, 1999
• "Uncertainties in Climate Modeling: Solar Variability and Other Factors," Sallie Baliunas, September 17, 1996