A recent Washington Post article by Stephen Stromberg epitomizes the smug ignorance of the policy wonks pushing for aggressive government intervention in the name of fighting climate change. Stromberg refers to the recent publicity stunt of having senators vote on various propositions regarding climate change, and then is grateful that at least some members of “the stupid party” (i.e. the GOP) are willing to listen to the findings of modern science. He then invites them to adopt the policies that Stromberg supports, such as a carbon tax. Yet as I’ll show in this post, Stromberg was far from proving his case, so he should check his disdain at the door.
