Politicians seeking cheap virtue? Say it ain’t so, Christopher:

[Global warming] allows [politicians] the option of cheap virtue—cheap to them, expensive to us—of satisfying constituencies for something that’s never solved. They get to emote and spend; there’s something in it for everyone.

No less dangerous are those who wish to deny the ‘deniers’:

Whether [Christopher] Horner is right or wrong about what makes our climate tick is, in many ways, immaterial. What matters is that even raising questions about the veracity of the popular presentation of the problem now attracts the label ‘denier’. The term has sinister parallels to ‘Holocaust denier’; some commentators have even called for ‘deniers’ and their alleged supporters to be prosecuted. For example, at a congressional hearing in June this year, the daddy of climate alarmism, NASA’s James Hansen, declared: ‘CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are aware of the long-term consequences of continued business as usual. In my opinion, these CEOs should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature.’ Indeed, Horner himself has featured on a ‘Field Guide to Climate Criminals’ circulated by Greenpeace.

That James Hansen sounds like a real humanitarian.