Paul Chesser, special correspondent for The Heartland Institute and director of Climate Strategies Watch, explains how the Climategate controversy could affect state-level efforts to enact policies linked to global warming. Chesser offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 363).
Politics should be less important
It might sound odd to hear this from someone who’s been writing a syndicated column on politics for nearly four decades, but politics has become vastly more important in our lives than it should be. Virtually every decision we make in our ostensibly free society is now subject to review, refinement, and reversal by some...