New climate change report makes crazy logical errors

Published November 28, 2018 2:45pm ET



President Trump says he doesn’t believe the recent federal climate change report. He’s right — not because the entire game’s a scam, or because the liberals have colonized the subject. The standard science on the subject tells us that this report, as with so many others, is wrong. They’re committing what I call “Worstall’s Fallacy” to get to their answer.

“Worstall’s Fallacy” is to ignore what we’re already doing to solve a problem when considering what we need to do to solve it. If we’re going to look at how much we need to spend to abolish poverty, then we’ve got to start from how much poverty there is after accounting for what we already spend to kill it off. Here with climate change, we’ve got to start from how much have we already done to beat it to see how much more we’ve got to do.

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