Plan to Combat Global Warming? Pie in the Sky

Whenever you hear a politician start a sentence with, “If we can put a man on the moon . . . ,” grab your wallet. For years, Democrats, enthralled by the cargo cult of the Kennedy presidency, have used the moon landing as proof that no big government ambition is beyond our reach. The latest example of anthropogenic-lunar empowerment is global warming. Al Gore and Barack Obama routinely cite the Apollo program as proof that we can make good on the president’s messianic campaign pledge to stem the rising ocean tides and hasten the healing of the planet. The problem with the “if we can put a man on the moon, we can certainly spend trillions on this or that” formulation is that it sees political and scientific accomplishments as interchangeable...NRO