George Will’s latest Newsweek column lobs a number of pointed questions at the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, including the following climate queries:

You say that even if global warming turns out to be no crisis (the
World Meteorological Organization says global temperatures have not
risen in a decade), even unnecessary measures taken to combat it will
be beneficial because “then all we’ve done is give our kids a cleaner
world.” But what of the
trillions of dollars those measures
will cost in direct expenditures and diminished economic growth?hence
diminished medical research, cultural investment, etc.? Given that
Earth is always warming or cooling, what is its proper temperature, and how do you know?

Perhaps Sen. McCain needs a little more background information