If its effects will be severe and widespread, he admits, incremental policy change would be “like trying to put out a forest fire with a plant mister.” The problem, he says, is that it’s all talk, and that nobody’s willing to take more than “piecemeal steps” to address climate change, so that must mean it can’t be so terrible.

Stephens writes that no one really knows how bad climate change is.

It’s because of the dangerous way the piece characterizes the problem of climate change. That’s not because of the clickbait title (“Is Nancy Pelosi A Climate Skeptic?” You guessed it, she’s not.) or the now oft-repeated criticism of the Green New Deal (it’s too pie-in-the-sky, and everyone thinks so, says Mr. It would be impossible to react to every piece of misinformation or poor reporting about climate change-let alone every misguided opinion editorial-that lives online today, but Bret Stephens’ February 15 piece in the New York Times strikes me as warranting a response.

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