Rob Bradley Points Out Awkward Jerry Taylor Quote
In a recent MasterResource post:
“Let’s switch out for a better [climate] policy…. Then conservative activists who continue to be in the denialist camp on climate change will find themselves completely isolated.”
– Jerry Taylor, quoted in “Libertarian Group Takes on Conservatives on Carbon Tax.” Energy & Environmental News (sub. req.), March 3, 2016.
“Alarmists … clearly have decided that the best way to win the global warming debate is by shouting down the opposition and demonizing them in the eyes of the public. But that is not dispassionate scientific debate; it is more like a ‘struggle meeting’ during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.”
– Jerry Taylor, The Heated Rhetoric of Global Warming, Cato Institute Commentary, September 15, 1997.
I shouldn’t have to say this, but here goes: Of course people are allowed to change their minds on a policy issue. But it’s annoying when people use tactics against their opponents that they previously abhorred, or when they act like someone who believed what they believed 10 years ago is a moral monster.
Jerry Taylor seems like a leftist. Check out his conversation with David Henderson on twitter. Yikes.