In this installment of McCuistion Television, Dennis McCuistion is joined by two experts that hold conflicting views regarding climate change politics.  Sterling Burnett, Ph.d. is an economist and Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis.  James D. Marston is the Director of State Climate Initiatives for the Environmental Defense Fund for the state of Texas.

Burnett holds the opinion that politicians are offering Americans a misguided climate change policy.  He discusses the emissions reductions that are being proposed and contends that global warming has always been political.

Timothy Wirk was the lead climate negotiator in Kyoto and stands by the statement that even if the global warming issue ended up being a non-issue, then it would still be the right thing to move forward with it as that would ensure that the government is being responsible. He continues to explain his view on the reasonable response to climate change.

Marston affirms that there isn’t any scientific doubt regarding global warming and states that the politics are coming together. He further speaks about the best way to go about solving global warming with low cost and minimal affects on American jobs.

The panelists spend the bulk of the segment offering often opposing views on the Kyoto Treaty, green house gas reductions and the economy as it relates to the aforementioned. Using graphics and expert opinion this segment wrestles with the politics behind climate change and whether the Kyoto Treaty is as effective as it could be.

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12.30.07 – 1702

In the last several years there have been many allegations that the earth is warming. Some allegations claim that virtually all scientists agree that human activity is the cause of global warming and its effects.  On this episode of McCuistion TV, Dennis McCuistion speaks with the experts  and addresses the truth behind global warming, rising sea levels, hurricanes, sunspots and climate models and the part that mankind actually plays?

• Sterling Burnett, Ph.D, Senior Fellow, National Center for Policy Analysis
• Drew Thornley, Policy Analyst, Center for Economic Freedom, Texas Public Policy Foundation
• James D. Marston, Director of State Climate Initiatives – Texas, Environmental Defense Fund

James Marston opens up the conversation by reading a statement from Texas A&M outlining the risks of climate change, validity of allegations and what must be done. His co-panelist’s quick rebuttal challenges his view noting that at one time Galileo was wrong.

Throughout this heated debate the panelists challenge opposing views with facts, statistics and graphs.

Drew Thorney contends with the methods that are being used by global warming players such as Al Gore. He explains that the scientific method has always been the way that science worked, and it can’t be changed.

The issue of human activity and its effects on the issue of global warming is often brought down to the question of c02 levels.  Many scientists pose that the co2 levels dictate temperatures and are a big player in warming. The experts spend time discusses this, disagreeing and agreeing on various points.

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1701 – 12.23.07