Greenland's Ice Sheet and Climate Change Policy

As I have been detailing for years here on the pages of IER, the actual peer-reviewed research on climate change doesn't come anywhere close to supporting the apocalyptic proclamations so often coming out of the corporate media and activist camps. Because I'm an economist, I tend to focus on the economics literature, but the pattern also holds for the physical sciences. I'll illustrate with the case of the Greenland ice sheet (GIS), which--we are told--will inevitably melt if market forces are left unchecked, leading to utter ruin for our descendants. The collapse of the GIS is one of a handful of frequently cited "tipping points" that ostensibly shows just how irresponsible it would be to delay aggressive government intervention to severely restrict greenhouse gas emissions.