FACTSHEET: Ronald Bailey
DETAILS
Adjunct Scholar, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute.
Science Correspondent, Reason Magazine.
Science and Technology reporter for Forbes 1987-1990.
Competitive Enterprise Institute's Warren T. Brookes Fellow in Environmental Journalism in 1993.
Bailey has written widely in criticism of climate change science and is a producer for television shows "Think Tank" and "Technopolitics."
Bailey was editor of "Global Warming and Other Eco-Myths: How the Environmental Movement Uses False Science to Scare Us to Death," "The True State of the Planet" and "Earth Report 2000: Revisiting The True State of The Planet," all of which were published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
He authored "Eco-Scam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse" and "The Law of Increasing Returns." Bailey received funding for Eco-Scam from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.
Bailey has long-standing connections to the Wise Use movement and was a speaker at the 1997 Fly In for Freedom, the annual gathering of "wise use" activists sponsored by the Alliance for America.
BA in economics and philosophy at University of Virginia.
KEY QUOTES
9 December, 2003
"[E]ven if the industrialized countries could meet Kyoto's emissions reductions goals, it is widely acknowledged the treaty will achieve essentially nothing with regard to reducing whatever future temperature increases are in store for the planet...Considering that just meeting the Kyoto goals would reduce U.S. GDP by as much as 3 percent annually, the far deeper post-Kyoto reductions of carbon dioxide emissions would be devastating to the world's economy."
Source: "Hot Air Conference: Urgent action on a non-problem" Reason Online 12/9/03
27 October, 2000
"The bottom line is that humanity's activities are contributing to some climate change. Climate change is a serious issue that will take decades of hard scientific research to resolve, however, what seems to be happening, according to an article in the January, 2000 issue of Climate Research is that the warming is being channeled into the winter nights and specifically into the coldest air masses over Siberia and North America. Driving the temperature up from 40 degrees below zero to 30 degrees below zero is a substantial change, but is unlikely to be regretted much by the inhabitants of Yakutsk or the Klondike."
Source: "Earth to the Rescue: Political science at play in new global-warming news leak" National Review 10/27/00
9 December, 2003
"[E]ven if the industrialized countries could meet Kyoto's emissions reductions goals, it is widely acknowledged the treaty will achieve essentially nothing with regard to reducing whatever future temperature increases are in store for the planet...Considering that just meeting the Kyoto goals would reduce U.S. GDP by as much as 3 percent annually, the far deeper post-Kyoto reductions of carbon dioxide emissions would be devastating to the world's economy."
Source: "Hot Air Conference: Urgent action on a non-problem" Reason Online 12/9/03
27 October, 2000
"The bottom line is that humanity's activities are contributing to some climate change. Climate change is a serious issue that will take decades of hard scientific research to resolve, however, what seems to be happening, according to an article in the January, 2000 issue of Climate Research is that the warming is being channeled into the winter nights and specifically into the coldest air masses over Siberia and North America. Driving the temperature up from 40 degrees below zero to 30 degrees below zero is a substantial change, but is unlikely to be regretted much by the inhabitants of Yakutsk or the Klondike."
Source: "Earth to the Rescue: Political science at play in new global-warming news leak" National Review 10/27/00
QUOTES
16 December, 2004
"Finally, in the real world, absent transformative technological breakthroughs in energy production, whatever the chances that average temperatures may one day exceed 2 degrees Celsius, there is absolutely no chance that steep emissions reductions scenarios are even remotely possible."
Source: Tech Central Station article - Bailey
16 December, 2004
"Finally, in the real world, absent transformative technological breakthroughs in energy production, whatever the chances that average temperatures may one day exceed 2 degrees Celsius, there is absolutely no chance that steep emissions reductions scenarios are even remotely possible."
Source: Tech Central Station article - Bailey
DEEDS
4 February, 2004
On February 4th, 2004, CEI Adjunct Fellow Ron Bailey testified before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources on "The Impact of Science on Public Policy," on how and why environmental predictions have gone wrong.
Source: CEI Website -Bailey testimony
4 February, 2004
On February 4th, 2004, CEI Adjunct Fellow Ron Bailey testified before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources on "The Impact of Science on Public Policy," on how and why environmental predictions have gone wrong.
Source: CEI Website -Bailey testimony
KEY EVENTS
Costs of Kyoto
http://www.cei.org/pdf/2301.pdf
The relationship of Ronald Bailey to the event: Speaker
Costs of Kyoto
http://www.cei.org/pdf/2301.pdf
The relationship of Ronald Bailey to the event: Speaker
ORGANIZATIONS
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Source: CEI website, 3/04
Cato Institute
Source: Cato Institute website 4/04
Reason Foundation
Source: Reason website 4/04
Tech Central Science Foundation or Tech Central Station
Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Bailey
SOURCES
CEI website, 3/04
http://www.cei.org
CEI website, 3/04
http://www.cei.org
Reason website 4/04
website for the Reason Foundation (as well as Reason Magazine and Reason Public Policy Institute).
http://www.reason.org
Reason website 4/04
website for the Reason Foundation (as well as Reason Magazine and Reason Public Policy Institute).
http://www.reason.org
Cato Institute website 4/04
http://www.cato.org
Cato Institute website 4/04
http://www.cato.org
"Hot Air Conference: Urgent action on a non-problem" Reason Online 12/9/03
Commentary by Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey
http://www.reason.com/rb/rb120903.shtml
"Hot Air Conference: Urgent action on a non-problem" Reason Online 12/9/03
Commentary by Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey
http://www.reason.com/rb/rb120903.shtml
"Earth to the Rescue: Political science at play in new global-warming news leak" National Review 10/27/00
Commentary by Ronald Bailey
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment102700a.shtml
"Earth to the Rescue: Political science at play in new global-warming news leak" National Review 10/27/00
Commentary by Ronald Bailey
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment102700a.shtml
Tech Central Station Bio - Bailey
http://www.techcentralstation.com/biobaileyron.html
Tech Central Station Bio - Bailey
http://www.techcentralstation.com/biobaileyron.html
Tech Central Station article - Bailey
Can We Avoid 'Dangerous' Climate Change? by Ronald Bailey 12/16/04
http://www.techcentralstation.com/121604G.html
Tech Central Station article - Bailey
Can We Avoid 'Dangerous' Climate Change? by Ronald Bailey 12/16/04
http://www.techcentralstation.com/121604G.html
CEI Website -Bailey testimony
http://www.cei.org/gencon/027,03852.cfm
CEI Website -Bailey testimony
http://www.cei.org/gencon/027,03852.cfm