D. Kreutzer, N. Loris, K. Tubb and K. Dayaratna: Hysteria over global warming is now pervasive in the federal government, driving energy and environmental policies, and those of nearly every federal department and agency. Beyond the waste and misallocation of taxpayer dollars, these policies enable cronyism, favoring elites and undermining the fairness of our economic system. Whether one thinks global warming poses little or no threat or that the planet is on a path toward catastrophe, the cumulative climate effect of these policies, if implemented, would be a change in the earth’s temperature almost too small to measure.
