Rawstory.com has a piece today that hightlights how desperate some
people are to continue to spin the climate change story. The piece titled, โFree Market advocate says fight effects, not global warming,โ quotes Sterling Burnett, a Senior Fellow with the National Centre for Policy Analysis (NCPA), as saying:
โPeople assume that the science is sound and leap to the conclusion they must do something, and they know what select something to do, when itโs not so clear what we should be doing,โ he said.
Unfortunately for Burnettโs argument, the scientific consensus is clear on what we should be doing: burning less fossil fuel.
As for Burnettโs solution to climate change:
โWhy not just stop building along the coasts, he [Burnett] asked, or build walls to prevent the flooding, which would cost Americans less than enacting the Kyoto Protocol.โ
In other words, ignore the science and the proposed solutions, just deal with the effects, build big seawalls and wear more sunscreen, and everything will be fine. Scarily, this sounds a lot like Ronald Reaganโs proposed answer to the o-zone hole being to โwear sunscreen and a baseball hat.โ
It is this is the type of shortsightedness you would expect from an oil-money backed โthinkโ tank like the NCPA and Burnett whose most recent claim to fame was comparing Al Gore to the Nazi Propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
