With efforts to stop climate change back in the news, the Washington Post’s George Will has re-started his efforts to bamboozle on the topic.
In a new column, Will denounces the “alarmists” on the issue, and, as if this were 1987, calls for “a national commission appointed to assess the evidence about climate change.” Seriously.
There’s nothing that appears to be narrowly factually incorrect in the column — which will no doubt make Fred Hiatt, the Post’s op-ed page editor, feel fine about running it. It’s more just that the entire thing exhibits a willful refusal to accept a scientific consensus that — despite the desperate protestations of the right — in fact formed some time ago.
And after TPMmuckraker and numerous others called Will out earlier this year for misleading Post readers on the issue, it’s worth noting every time he wades back into the subject.