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The Cooler Heads Coalition is a politically conservative "informal and ad-hoc group" in the United States, financed and operated by the Competitive Enterprise Institute. It describes itself as "focused on dispelling the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, and risk analysis".〔 The Coalition operates a website and blog, and publishes the e-newsletter ''Cooler Heads Digest'' (last issued in 2012). ''The New Yorker'' has described the Cooler Heads Coalition as "an umbrella organization operated by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit that prides itself on its opposition to environmentalists." In the 2011 Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society, the Cooler Heads Coalition was listed as one of the "front groups" that form “key components of the climate change denial machine”. ==Origins== Consumer Alert was founded in 1977.〔http://web.archive.org/web/20040611161801/www.consumeralert.org/index.htm〕 It described itself as "a national, non-profit organization for people concerned about excessive growth of government regulation at the national and state levels. We are dedicated to informing the public about the consumer benefits of competitive enterprise and promoting the utilization of sound economic, scientific, and risk data in public policy decisions."〔http://web.archive.org/web/20060209133458/www.consumeralert.org/wst_page2.html〕 The National Consumer Coalition was formed by Consumer Alert on February 4, 1997; it conducted research and educational activities on a variety of issues, including housing, transportation, food, health and safety, the environment, utilities, tax policy, financial issues, and telecommunications.〔http://web.archive.org/web/20040622144909/www.consumeralert.org/ncc/releases/launch.htm〕 A major issue of the National Consumer Coalition in the late 1990s was opposition to a federal mandate that airbags be installed in automobiles sold in the United States.〔Dead Link: (Blocked by site ownder) http://web.archive.org/web/20040615021402/www.consumeralert.org/issues/airbags/index.htm〕 The NCC argued that manufacturers should be allowed to install switches in automobiles so consumers can turn the airbags off. After federal permission for such switches was given, the NCC sought to persuade automakers to install the switches.〔http://web.archive.org/web/20040620025557/www.consumeralert.org/issues/airbags/update.htm〕 The founding principles of the National Consumer Coalition were stated as follows: "The members of the National Consumer Coalition (NCC) do hereby endorse the following principles for a society of free and responsible consumers: In 2001, the National Consumer Coalition launched the website www.NCCprivacy.org, saying it would cover four issue areas: online privacy, medical privacy, financial privacy and government surveillance.〔(New web site launched NCCprivacy.org - National Consumer Coalition - Brief Article | Consumer Comments | Find Articles at BNET.com )〕 In 2004, the National Consumer Coalition joined with the Free Congress Foundation to ask Congress not to eliminate "sunset" provisions calling for the expiry of regulations in the Patriot Act that Consumer Alert's James Plummer called "violations of consumer privacy".〔(Free Congress Foundation And National Consumer Coalition’s Privacy Group Urge Congress Not To Blindly Jettison PATRIOT Sunset Provision )〕 Consumer Alert and the National Consumer Coalition ceased operations in 2005.〔Note: Its website, www.consumeralert.org, and three other websites operated by the organization (as cited in Consumer Alert's 2004 tax return), including the website of the Cooler Heads Coalition, went offline in 2006. Consumer Alert's 2004 tax return, the last one publicly available, cites its address as "in care of" the Washington DC law firm Collier Shannon Scott (since merged into Kelley, Drye & Warren, LLP).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cooler Heads Coalition」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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