THE SOCIAL ENGINEERING VICE.

David Harsanyi talks back.  "Sorry, Democrats, There Is No Climate Chaos."  I'm not prepared to go quite that far, for the same reason Charles Krauthammer once offered, namely that using the atmosphere as a sink for all manner of combustion isn't likely to turn out well.  I do concur, though, with Mr Harsanyi's assertion that climate policy is simply the latest stalking horse for a power-grab by the technocrats.

Pointing out these sort of things usually elicits the same reaction: Why do you knuckle-dragging troglodytes hate science? Well, because science's predictive abilities on most things, but especially climate, has been atrocious. But mostly because science is being used as a cudgel to push leftist policy prescriptions without considering economic tradeoffs, societal reality or morality.

If they're so smart, shouldn't they be rich?