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<p>For too long, the national debate on climate change has been deadlocked. On one side are those calling for deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, despite the economic costs. On the other side are many business leaders who have played down the global warming threat, fearing that new regulations will cut their profits and their payrolls. The debate on global warming itself has become overheated with acrimony and polluted by misinformation.</p>

What would the Kyoto Protocol do to reduce global temperatures? Not much, according to three leading climate scientists. Dr. Tom Wigley, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, found that if the Kyoto Protocol were fully implemented by all signatories, it would reduce temperatures by a mere 0.07 degrees Celsius by 2050. This is an amount so small that it cannot be reliably measured by ground-based thermometers.