Fumento writes, “Yes, I’ve also questioned the extent to which man-made gases have contributed to that warming and concluded that expenditures to reduce those emissions would be as worthless as they’d be horrifically expensive.”

First, I’m not about to congratulate him for accepting the evidence for global warming, but I’d like to know what he would have us do to slow it down. What does it say about us as a species if we’re not even willing to try? Putting out fires can be expensive. Sending criminals to jail, likewise, can be expensive, but we’re not letting our cities burn and ceding our sovereignty to violent street gangs. So he accepts global warming, but can’t get past throwing his hands up in despair. What a useful attitude.