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2/5     George Will on Global Warming
        http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16960409/site/newsweek
        \- this is why newsweek costs $15/year.
           \_ Wow! Stellar rebuttal!
              \- it's an insult, not a rebuttal.
                 \_ Yeah I noticed that you're an idiot.

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www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16960409/site/newsweekGeorge F Will-The Last Word Inconvenient Kyoto Truths Was life better when a sheet of ice a mile thick covered Chicago? Was it worse when Greenland was so warm that Vikings farmed there? John Kerry says that one reason America has become an "international pariah" is President Bush's decision to "walk away from global warming." Kerry's accusation is opaque, but it implies the usual complaint that Bush is insufficiently enthusiastic about the Kyoto Protocol's binding caps on emissions of greenhouse gases. Many senators and other experts in climate science say we must "do something" about global warming. Barack Obama says "the world" is watching to see "what action we take." President Bush should give the world something amusing to watch. Climate Cassandras say the facts are clear and the case is closed. ") The consensus catechism about global warming has six tenets: 1 Global warming is happening. Only the first tenet is clearly true, and only in the sense that the Earth warmed about 07 degrees Celsius in the 20th century. We do not know the extent to which human activity caused this. The activity is economic growth, the wealth-creation that makes possible improved well-being-better nutrition, medicine, education, etc. How much reduction of such social goods are we willing to accept by slowing economic activity in order to (try to) regulate the planet's climate? WILL: INCONVENIENT KYOTO TRUTHS Was life better when a sheet of ice a mile thick covered Chicago? Was it worse when Greenland was so warm that Vikings farmed there?