Standing the Heat: A Global Warming Face-Off

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[...] in the real world out there, he challenged the motion's supporters, we just had the big intergovernmental panel on climate change report in which 90 percent of the world's governments and 90 percent of their atmospheric sciences declared with 90 percent certainty that global warming is real and human beings are causing it. Yet it is the global warming hysterics who cling to a faith in computer models as they cite the uncertain consequences of climate change in support of public policies that will do predictable damage to living standards and economic growth. Robert Stavins of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government has estimated that the price tag for the United States meeting the Kyoto Protocol's emissions reduction targets would be "approximately the cost of complying with all other environmental regulations combined."

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Standing the Heat: A Global Warming Face-Off

THERE'S NO USE ARGUING ABOUT IT-global warming is an imminent catastrophe. At least that's what the media-accredited experts keep telling us, and they aren't shy about driving the point home. According to a headline in USA Today, the nation's largest-circulation daily newspaper, "The debate's over: Globe is Warming." Apparently Rolling Stone has its own resident climatologist, who went a step further, declaring, "No s...

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