Here's what apparently happened: Friedman wrote the column, then had one of those blue-screen-of-death/didn't-save-properly snafus, and when that happens of course the content that was lost goes to the Official Ricochet File Depository, where a friend of ours sometimes delivers Jimmy John's. Anyway, I guess he thought he was watching CNN and not Syfy, and this is what he wrote. I'm told.
Peering out my hotel window in Shanghai, it occurs to me that we often miss the big picture when it comes to climate change, for the simple reason that we can't cut through the usual back-and-forth to implement the correct solutions.