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Al Gore’s film makes global warming seem simple. It isn’t. By Terry L. Anderson and Robert McCormick.
The recently published fourth report of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) leaves little room for skeptics to claim that world temperatures are not increasing and that humans are not at least partly to blame. According to that report, humans are “very likely” to be responsible for rising temperatures.
Terry Anderson, the John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the executive director of PERC—the Property and Environment Research Center—a think tank in Bozeman, Montana, that focuses on market solutions to environmental problems. His research helped launch the idea of free-market environmentalism and has prompted public debate over the proper role of government in managing natural resources. He is the cochair of Hoover's Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force.
Robert McCormick is professor of economics and BB&T Scholar at Clemson University and senior fellow at PERC.
Special to the Hoover Digest.
Available from the Hoover Press is You Have to Admit It’s Getting Better: From Economic Prosperity to Environmental Quality, edited by Terry L. Anderson. To order, call 800.935.2882 or visit www.hooverpress.org.