Will 2019 See Climate Maturity?
The left favors green socialism, while the right discovers the uses of a carbon tax.
Innocent news consumers may be impressed to learn that Germany has reduced carbon-dioxide emissions by 27% since 1990. This is the standard the German government itself has employed, and it has been glibly endorsed by many news organizations. Never mind the obvious: 1990 was picked because it was the year of German reunification, and the entirety of the decline is due to the collapse of East German heavy industry.
The real punch line is to be found in two sentences in a recent piece by the nonprofit magazine Yale E360: “In...