Global-Warming Skepticism
15 August 2007
Editor, Boston Globe
To the Editor:
Jeff Jacoby courageously denounces the hysterical groupthink so prominent in the crusade against global warming ("Hot tempers on global warming," August 15).
I am a global-warming skeptic - not of the science of climate change (for I have no expertise to judge it), but a skeptic of combating climate change with increased government power. Al Gore, Robert Kennedy, Jr., and too many others dismiss the downside of curtailing capitalism in order to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. They write and speak as if the material prosperity that capitalism brings is either not threatened by increased government power, or is of only small importance when compared to the threat of global warming. Truly reasonable people are, and ought to be, skeptical of each of these dogmas.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Editor, Boston Globe
To the Editor:
Jeff Jacoby courageously denounces the hysterical groupthink so prominent in the crusade against global warming ("Hot tempers on global warming," August 15).
I am a global-warming skeptic - not of the science of climate change (for I have no expertise to judge it), but a skeptic of combating climate change with increased government power. Al Gore, Robert Kennedy, Jr., and too many others dismiss the downside of curtailing capitalism in order to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. They write and speak as if the material prosperity that capitalism brings is either not threatened by increased government power, or is of only small importance when compared to the threat of global warming. Truly reasonable people are, and ought to be, skeptical of each of these dogmas.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Sunday February 17, 2008 at 5:57pm
The real problem is that MOST "Americans" don't realize that they live their lives in a VACUMM. They don't see the "market based" system that has made them prosperous!
They don't see that everything they "ask" government to do turns to s**t, and makes us all go running BACK to get more SOLUTIONS from THE GOVERMENT.
GLOBAL WARMING IS JUST ONE SITUATION. BUT when the gentleman who CREATED the WEATHER CHANNEL SAYS "GLOBAL WARMING" IS A HOAX, AND WE HAD BETTER watch what we are doing BEFORE we destroy this economy, THEN I LISTEN!!!!!
MIKE