Denying Climate Denial

The dust-up over the climate change op-ed from the New York Times’ newest columnist, Bret Stephens, has been educational.

If you missed it, the Times hired Stephens away from the Wall Street Journal recently. In Stephens’ opening column, he asks for “reasoned discussion” on climate change. As I wrote a few days ago in “The Straw Man Arguments of Climate Denial,” he basically makes two fake arguments: (1) everyone supporting climate action is too certain on the science (and science is never 100%), and (2) it’s too expensive to do something. Both are wrong, but it’s the nature of “denial”…