Surely, some kind of ending is upon us. Last week climate protesters demanded the silencing of Charles Krauthammer for a Washington Post column that notices uncertainties in the global warming hypothesis. In coming weeks a libel trial gets under way brought by Penn States Michael Mann, author of the famed hockey stick, against National Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, writer Rand Simberg and roving commentator Mark Steyn for making wisecracks about his climate work. The New York Times runs a cartoon of a climate denier being stabbed with an icicle. These are indications of a political movement turned to defending its self-image as its cause goes down the drain. Thats how thoroughly defunct, dead, expired is the idea that humanity might take charge of earths atmosphere through some supreme triumph of the global regulatory state over democracy, sovereignty, nationalism and political self-interest, the very facts of political human nature. Then theres the political problem: Nothing America could do by itself would make a significant difference. Anything agreed with other countries, given diplomatic incentives, would be an empty gesture designed mainly to benefit incumbent politicians. online.wsj/news/articles/SB10001424052702304026804579411021545493020?mg=reno64-wsj
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 03:59:13 +0000
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