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Cato scholars have written extensively about the issues of the environment, including global warming, environmental regulation, and energy policy. The Cato Institute lists "Energy and the Environment" as one of its 13 major "research issues",<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cato.org/researcharea.php?display=4 |title=The Cato Institute Page on Energy and the Environment |publisher=Cato Institute |accessdate=January 31, 2008}}</ref> and global warming is one of six sub-topics under this heading.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cato.org/subtopic_display_new.php?topic_id=27&ra_id=4 |title=The Cato Institute Official web site page on Global Warming |publisher=Cato Institute| accessdate=January 31, 2008}}</ref> The Institute has issued over two dozen studies on energy and environmental topics in recent years, which is on par with Cato's other research areas.<ref name="catoenergy">{{cite web |publisher=Cato Institute (2008) |title=Energy and Environment |accessdate=January 31, 2008 |url= http://www.cato.org/researcharea.php?display=4}}</ref>
Some groups{{who}} have criticized Cato's work on global warming.<ref>{{cite web |title=On ''The Big Story'', Cato Institute fellow falsely asserted that IPCC findings contradict Gore's 'beyond shrill' claim |url=http://mediamatters.org/items/200703220014 |publisher=[[Media Matters]] |date=March 22, 2007}}</ref> Cato has held a number of briefings on global warming with [[Climate change denial|global warming skeptic]]s as panelists. In December 2003, panelists included [[Patrick Michaels]], [[Robert Balling]] and [[John Christy]]. Michaels, Balling and Christy agree that global warming is, in fact, related at least some degree to [[Human impact on the environment|anthropogenic activity]] but that some scientists and the media have overstated the danger. The Cato Institute has also criticized political attempts to stop global warming as expensive and ineffective:
{{quote|No known mechanism can stop global warming in the near term. International agreements, such as the [[Kyoto Protocol]] to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, would have no detectable effect on average temperature within any reasonable policy time frame (i.e., 50 years or so), even with full compliance.<ref name="autogenerated1" />}}
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