Global warming mania went into overdrive today as President Clinton unveiled his plan to deal with the as yet unproven threat of global warming, a market-oriented consumer advocacy group charged today.

For many months, a NAIC1 working group has been drafting model legislation aimed at preventing unfair discrimination against victims of domestic violence. Current efforts are focused on provision of homeowner's and other types of property and casualty insurance. Similar legislation is being debated in many state legislatures and has been introduced in the U.S. Congress.2

(Chicago, Illinois) Secretary Herman. Secretary Shalala. Commissioners. Good afternoon. My name is Michael Cannon and I come before you to represent the 250,000 members of Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation who believe consumer choice and competition among health care and coverage providers are the keys to consumer protection. These tools enable consumers and health coverage providers to discipline those providers who fail to offer a quality product.

Vice President Al Gore's suggestion that melting glaciers may be the result of global warming cannot be taken seriously, according to a market-oriented advocacy group. "Any grade-school science textbook will tell you the process of glaciation and deglaciation is completely natural and has occurred many times in Earth's history and will likely occur again," said Paul Beckner, president of Citizens for a Sound Economy.

Citizens for a Sound Economy Issue Analysis 57 - Think Globally, Tax Locally: The EPA's Global Warming "Action Plan" July 26, 1997 In July 1996, in a major policy shift, the Clinton administration agreed in principle to binding international limits to reduce manmade greenhouse gases. At the 150-nation Global Climate Conference in Geneva, Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs Timothy Wirth announced the administration's intent to secure an international agreement that would legally bind some countries to reduce emissions of CO2 and other "greenhouse" gases believed by some to cause global warming.

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President Clinton's Environmental Protection Agency recently kicked off its national campaign in Boston to "convince the American people that the climate change problem is real and imminent." The EPA gives the impression that nearly any natural catastrophe can be attributed to global warming. The agency has predicted that global warming will increase extreme rainfalls and, thus, promote more flooding. If floods don't result as predicted, the EPA insists that severe droughts will occur. That's right, global warming supposedly means drier and wetter weather.

Commenting on President Clinton's remarks concerning global warming at the United Nations today, Paul Beckner, president of Citizens for a Sound Economy said, "Before the world stage, President Clinton announced his intentions to spend billions of Americans' dollars on unproven environmental policies." Beckner characterized the so-called global warming theory as "junk science." The president's speech in New York follows his decision on Wednesday to implement the Environmental Protection Agency's controversial new clean air standards.