I am gobsmacked. Flabbergasted. I just read Thomas Sowell’s Feb. 3 column, “Facts don’t support pursuing climate-change policies.” To infer the macro, by discounting the micro, has got to be the laziest rhetorical argument I have seen since high school debate class. Is he serious?
I was also taken aback by his ridiculous conclusion. Does he really mean that since China and India will probably continue to spew all over their respective countries that it gives us license to do the same? Is it OK to require using face masks to go outside because the pollution is as thick as Columbia River fog on a winter morning? Or do we merely sit back, count our money, and remark of the lovely hue of yellow that the sky has taken today? Really.
Shouldn’t a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution be capable of coming up with a better argument than we can’t predict the oncoming front so we must have climate change wrong? I have been waiting for Sowell to make a sound argument for anything. I guess I will need to keep waiting.
Frank Brown
Vancouver
