To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (502842 ) 12/3/2003 12:31:47 PM From: Thomas A Watson Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667 kenny, kyoto was abject stupidity. Anyone who is against abject stupidity should be elated that such stupidity was defeated. This report should even be understandable by a technology ignoramus. In fact I think it was written with lawyers in mind. It's author Patrick J. Michaels has been writing on global warming issues for years.cato.org kenny any person who reads the above and cannot understand just how stupid kyoto is, is clearly and idiot. Here is the bibliography of this excellent report. Suggested Readings Balling, R. C. Jr., P. J. Michaels, and P. C. Knappenberger. ``Analysis of Winter andSummer Warming Rates in Gridded Temperature Time Series.'' Climate Research 9 (1988): 175-81.Davis, R. E., et al. ``Decadal Changes in Summer Mortality in the United States.'' Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Applied Climatology, Asheville, N.C., 2000,pp. 184-87. Hansen, J. E., et al. ``A Common-Sense Climate Index: Is Our Climate ChangingNoticeably?'' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95 (2000): 4113-20. . ``Global Warming in the Twenty-First Century: An Alternative Scenario.''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2000), www.pnas.org. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Climate Change 1995: The Science ofClimate Change: Contribution of Working Group I to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Edited by J. T. Houghton et al.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Karl, T. R., R. W. Knight, and N. Plummer. ``Trends in High-Frequency ClimateVariability in the Twentieth Century.'' Nature 377 (1995): 217-20. Lean, J., and D. Rind. ``Climate Forcing by Changing Solar Radiation.'' Journal ofClimate 11 (1998): 3069-94. Lins, H. F., and J. R. Slack. ``Streamflow Trends in the United States.'' GeophysicalResearch Letters 26 (1999): 277-330. Michaels, P. J. ``The Consequences of Kyoto.'' Cato Institute Policy Analysis no. 307,May 7, 1998. . ``Long Hot Year: Latest Science Debunks Global Warming Hysteria.'' CatoInstitute Policy Analysis no. 329, December 31, 1998. Michaels, P. J., and R. C. Balling Jr. The Satanic Gases. Washington: Cato Institute, 2000.Michaels, P. J., et al. ``Analysis of Trends in the Variability of Daily and Monthly Historical Temperature Measurements.'' Climate Research 10 (1998): 27-33.. ``Observed Warming in Cold Anticyclones.'' Climate Research 14 (2000): 1-6. Wittwer, S. H. Food, Climate, and Carbon Dioxide. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, 1995. --Prepared by Patrick J. Michaels