Andrew Winston: Jon Stewart's Oddly Uneducated Views on Climate Change

By Andrew Winston, Huffington Post

It's been a strange week or so for Jon Stewart (who I should admit up front I admire and think of as one of our finest investigative journalists).

First, Stewart interviewed Steven Levitt, co-author of SuperFreakonomics, the book that takes all the old climate skeptic arguments and trots them out like they're new and shiny. (Really, the book is disastrous on the science front ... but it's actually even worse as an economic argument since they completely ignore all the massive benefits of decoupling our economy from carbon and fossil fuels -- security, health, savings, etc).

He gives Levitt an unreal pass and laments "how angry people are" and the "secular religion" of climate change. Question: Why is acceptance of vast scientific agreement of a large-scale problem -- and searching for solutions in the most economic way -- portrayed as some emotional reaction?

And why is someone who's normally so critical of vested interests and hidden agendas so unaware of where these really dangerous ideas -- that climate change isn't so bad and is easily fixable -- are coming from (and who's paying for them)?. Stewart comments that Levitt is not denying the science -- but if Stewart had read the criticisms of blogger...

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