Policy Documents

Global Warming and the Kyoto Protocol: Paper Tiger, Economic Dragon

Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D. –
May 1, 2002

The Summer of 1988 was excruciatingly hot and dry in the eastern United States. Vast farm acreage in the Midwest lay bare, lacking water even for germination. Civil War relics buried in the mud of the Mississippi since 1864 were unearthed to historians. Temperatures skyrocketed.