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Losing It

Global warming goon squads lash out because there's nothing they can do to affect the problem they obsess over.

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There also isn’t any viable legal instrument that will significantly alter the rate of warming. The Kyoto Protocol, which is pretty much moribund, would reduce surface warming by 0.07 degrees Centigrade every fifty years, an amount too small to measure. Kyoto failed because, by and large, no nation could meet its modest emission reduction targets.

That’s what’s being denied by those who call everyone they disagree with “deniers.” Here are the hard facts: Unless you stipulate that the behavior of all those climate models is wrong, you are forced to conclude that future warming will be modest and there really isn’t anything you can do about it. Anyone who refuses to acknowledge this is in denial, which, of course, explains the frustration and hyperbole of the mob, now calling for assault and murder.

Where, incidentally, is the outrage?

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Trade, Global Warming, Books, United Nations

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Patrick J. Michaels is director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute.

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