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Four Global Warming Questions

In Gary Whittenberger's article on global warming in Vol. 14, No. 4 ("Misleading by Petition"), he complains that 31,072 scientists have signed a petition (www.petitionproject.org) that expresses skepticism of global warming cataclysm. In the interest of advancing science, Mr. Whittenberger could do us all a favor by answering these simple public policy questions:

1. What is the optimum global temperature?

2. Who determined the optimum global temperature?

3. What cost-benefit studies have been conducted for the consequences of global temperatures going over the optimum by 2°F and under the optimum by 2°F?

4. What measures of global temperatures are being ...

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