{"id":32393,"date":"2018-03-15T10:25:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T15:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32393"},"modified":"2018-03-15T10:26:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T15:26:02","slug":"the-manhattan-institutes-joke-of-a-wall-street-journal-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32393","title":{"rendered":"The Manhattan Institute&#8217;s Joke of a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-field-bimage field-type-image field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div>\n<h3 id=\"page-title\" class=\"page__title title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2018\/03\/14\/wall-street-journal-cass-oren-manhattan-institute-climate-scenarios-heat\">The Manhattan Institute&#8217;s Joke of a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/sites\/beta.desmogblog.com\/files\/styles\/full_width_blog_image\/public\/blogimages\/Overheated.png?itok=IqW2OG6i\" alt=\"Cass Oren's report cover for 'Overheated: How Flawed Analyses Overestimate the Costs of Climate Change'\" width=\"826\" height=\"584\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"new-horizontal-social-bar clearfix\">\n<div class=\"new-horizontal-share-wrapper new-horizontal-email-wrapper clearfix last\">A new report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manhattan-institute.org\/expert\/oren-cass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oren Cass<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/manhattan-institute-policy-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manhattan Institute for Policy Research<\/a> dismisses predictions of the impacts of a warming\u00a0world with a simple solution: When climate change turns up the heat, people just need to turn on their air\u00a0conditioners.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>From his analysis, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.manhattan-institute.org\/html\/overheated-how-flawed-analyses-overestimate-costs-climate-change-10986.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Overheated: How Flawed Analyses Overestimate the Costs of Climate Change<\/a>,\u201d the Wall Street Journal somehow arrived at the following headline for Cass\u2019s recent op-ed: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/doomsday-climate-scenarios-are-a-joke-1520800377\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Doomsday Climate Scenarios Are a Joke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that Cass is a Harvard-trained lawyer, with a background in political science, not climate science. And his employer, the Manhattan Institute, for years has promoted climate science contrarianism while pushing fossil fuel development. No surprise that the organization\u00a0is bankrolled by several conservative foundations, including the billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/mercer-family-foundation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercer family<\/a>, major Trump donors and funders of climate\u00a0denial.<\/p>\n<p>Cass\u2019s Wall Street Journal op-ed, which begins with \u201cDebates over climate change are filled with dire estimates of its cost,\u201d\u00a0was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2018\/03\/12\/wsj-doomsday-climate-scenarios-joke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quickly trumpeted <\/a>by the also Mercer-backed right-wing publication Breitbart\u00a0News.<\/p>\n<p>What Cass is peddling with his \u201cjust get air conditioners\u201d argument is known as adaptation. The purveyors of this approach admit the climate is changing but say that it is nothing to worry about because humans will just adapt. This argument is much more popular with the extremely wealthy than with the rest of the world\u2019s\u00a0population.<\/p>\n<p>Cass proceeds to dismiss several reports from organizations such as the <span class=\"caps\">U.S.<\/span> Environmental Protection Agency and\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">U.S.<\/span>Government Accountability Office that estimate the impacts of increasing temperatures on the <span class=\"caps\">U.S.<\/span> and global\u00a0economy by simply saying people will do things like turn on air conditioners. Thus, he concludes, those estimates of the costs which he admits include \u201cdeaths from extreme heat, lost hours of work from extreme heat, and deaths from heat-caused air pollution\u201d are \u201cmostly from laughably bad\u00a0economics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Manhattan Institute&#8217;s Joke of a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed A new report by Oren Cass of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research dismisses predictions of the impacts of a warming\u00a0world with a simple solution: When climate change turns up the heat, people just need to turn on their air\u00a0conditioners. 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