The Lieberman-Warner Climate Change Act: A Solution Worse Than the Problem


 

Publication Date: June 2008

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Ben Lieberman

Research Area: Environment

Keywords: Energy and environment; climate change; global warming; Kyoto Protocol

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

America's Climate Security Act of 2007 requires significant emissions reductions before the technologies capable of achieving them affordably are available. The science points away from a need to act precipitously and impose such a dramatic slowing of the economy in such a tight timeframe.