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EFTA01170983 | EFTA01171001 the regular kind of ignorance. It takes real talent to master. George F. Will and Charles Krauthammer are two of the intellectual giants of the right, former winners of the Bradley Foundation's $250,000 annual prize, Washington Post columnists, and Fox News MI-Star panelists. They numbered among the select conservative intellectuals chosen to dine with newly elected president Barack Obama in 2009. What follows is an annotated analysis of Will and Krauthammer's remarks, the intellectual quality of which starts off low, and grows increasingly and even frighteningly so as the program progresses. After a brief introduction of the climate report, we begin with Krauthammer: What they tell you is that you should be scared about what's happening today. Of course, if it's very cold in the winter, they blame it, here in the northeast, they blame it on global warming, and the report says that global warming makes summers hotter and winters are generally shorter and warmer. In one sentence, Krauthammer claims "they" blame every cold winter on climate change, but does not identify who "they" is. In the next sentence, he correctly says that the climate assessment links climate change with shorter, warmer winters in the United States, negating his previous point. Any scientific theory that explains everything explains nothing, and no matter what happens in climate is unpleasant, the word for that is weather, it's attributed to global warming. If we continue global warming up here in the northeast, we're going to freeze to death. It is not clear what Krauthammer means when he says climate science "explains everything." Climate science is an attempt to model the complex impact of heat-trapping gasses in the atmosphere. It does not attempt to explain "everything" more than, say, the Theory of Gravity does. (In fact, it attempts to explain less, as it contains more room for unpredictability.) It is also impossible to understand exactly what Krauthammer's line about freezing to death even means. The report does in fact describe dangerous and costly impacts in the Northeast: "Heat waves, coastalflooding, and riverflooding will pose a growing challenge to the region's environmental, social, and economic systems. This will increase the vulnerability of the region's residents, especially its most disadvantaged populations. Infrastructure will be increasingly compromised by climate-related hazards, including sea level rise, coastalflooding, and intense precipitation events. Agriculture,fisheries, and ecosystems will be increasingly compromised over the next century by climate change impacts. Farmers can explore new crop options, but these adaptations are not cost- or risk-free. Moreover, inequities exist in adaptive capacity, which could be overwhelmed by changing climate." Krauthammer goes on to endorse comments by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell: But the most important element is what McConnell was talking about, the negligible gains. Assume they are right about global warming, assume that it is all caused by man. The United States has reduced carbon emissions since 2006 more than any other country on earth. We are right now at 1992 levels, according to the International EFTA01171001
May 12, 2026 at 3:01 PM