Paul Krugman Preemptively Strikes Climate Change Opponents

Paul Krugman from The New York Times weighs in already against the people opposed to climate change legislation. He starts off with:

So, have you enjoyed the debate over health care reform? Have you been impressed by the civility of the discussion and the intellectual honesty of reform opponents? If so, you’ll love the next big debate: the fight over climate change.

Civility? Who was civil? Certainly not progressives like Paul Krugman. You can find documentation here about his hostility to anyone that disagrees with him.

Let's not get started on intellectual honesty in the health care debate. Look at any column I've written in this blog, for example, to see just how "intellectually honest" the progressives are about health care legislation. Here is another example of his intellectual honesty. He says we are in the worst "greatest financial crisis since the 1930s."

His first salvo in this article is to try to marginalize opponents of climate change legislation and remove them altogether from the conversation. He attempts to debunk claims that global warming is a myth and then continues:

"So the main argument against climate action probably won’t be the claim that global warming is a myth. It will, instead, be the argument that doing anything to limit global warming would destroy the economy."

We have already covered here about the costs of global warming legislation. The Treasury Department estimates cost of the legislation could reach $300 billion annually. You can see the PDF of their statement here.

Krugman's editorial can be found here.

The Waxman-Markey climate bill can be found here (PDF).