Kevin A. Shapiro

About the author: Kevin A. Shapiro is a researcher in neuroscience at Harvard University.

There is not enough evidence to support the theory that humans are responsible for global warming or that this warming will lead to catastrophic changes in climate. The higher incidence of severe weather in the Pacific during the past decade is not necessarily the result of global warming, and recent climate-prediction research shows no correlation between rising global temperatures and an increase in the frequency of storms. During the twentieth century, the average world temperature increased by only one-half of a degree centigrade. Although some climatologists predicted, in 1980, that this warming would cause the polar icecaps to melt and sea levels to rise drastically, these forecasts proved to be wrong. The United States should not cave in...