Over on the Corner, Jim Manzi replies to Jonathan Chait’s column in the current issue of The New Republic criticizing Jim’s cover story from NRODT last June. Manzi writes today:
Global warming is a complex topic that depends upon inherently speculative predictions about the world’s economy and environment more than a century into the future, so there is plenty of room for principled disagreement. As a general rule, however, people like Mr. Chait who speak about it in tones of certainty mostly reveal that they are uninformed on the subject. While I recognize the constraints on length that prevented him from producing a doctoral dissertation, he never actually engages with the central arguments that I’ve made, at any level of abstraction.