How climate change ate conservatism's smartest thinkers

Ross Douthat perfectly encapsulates the big problem with conservative thinking on climate change: They have no evidence

Climate Change
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Climate change remains perhaps the single largest policy weakness of the Republican Party, and that's saying a lot. Thus, since the publication of the new "reform conservatism" book, the reformers have gotten a lot of flak for almost totally ignoring the subject.

Ross Douthat grappled yesterday with the issue, arguing that reform conservatives have been given short shrift to their attention on climate change, but that he's basically okay with doing nothing about the problem. Here's the conclusion:

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.