Global Warming, Cont.

PAUL KRUGMAN needs a course in remedial reading. That’s the conclusion to be drawn from his New York Times column calling my article “Scare of the Century” (June 5) part of a “disinformation campaign” about climate change.

Krugman writes that, “as evidence that global warming isn’t really happening,” I offer “the fact that some Antarctic ice sheets are getting thicker.” I did indeed note the thickening of Antarctic ice-about which, more in a moment-but I never claimed “that global warming isn’t really happening.” Rather, I said that “global average temperature has risen by about 1 degree Celsius or less since the late 1800s.” No serious person on either side of the global-warming debate questions this. Nor do serious commentators doubt that human activity, by increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations, contributes to global warming. My article acknowledged all of these points.

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Jason Lee Steorts

Jason Lee Steorts is a former managing editor of National Review.

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PAUL KRUGMAN needs a course in remedial reading. That’s the conclusion to be drawn from his New York Times column calling my article “Scare of the Century” (June 5) part of a “disinformation campaign” about climate change.

Krugman writes that, “as evidence that global warming isn’t really happening,” I offer “the fact that some Antarctic ice sheets are getting thicker.” I did indeed note the thickening of Antarctic ice-about which, more in a moment-but I never claimed “that global warming isn’t really happening.” Rather, I said that “global average temperature has risen by about 1 degree Celsius or less since the late 1800s.” No serious person on either side of the global-warming debate questions this. Nor do serious commentators doubt that human activity, by increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations, contributes to global warming. My article acknowledged all of these points.