David Harsanyi is a conservative journalist and author. He is senior editor at The Federalist (an online magazine) and was the former senior writer at the National Review in 2019. He has written five books.
On Climate Change
In a 2022 essay, “Biden Has No Right To Declare A ‘National Climate Emergency’” for The Federalist, Harsanyi asserts “there is no [climate] emergency… Despite the massive expansion of fossil fuel use, despite the explosion of the world’s population, far fewer people die from the climate.” He comments that Biden’s climate legislation is like, “trying to control the weather.”
His 2021 article “Climate Change Is Not A Crisis” (also named “Get ready for climate-change ‘emergency’ lockdowns”) discusses how major storms and extreme temperatures are “nothing new.” For Harsanyi, weather is just something “that happens…there’s nothing we can do about it.” He claims that hurricanes aren’t any more intense than they were previously. He states that most of the damage nowadays, like that caused by Hurricane Katrina, was caused by “how ill-prepared the city was for any storm.” He goes on to assert that “hurricanes are less destructive because governments and the private sector adapt and prepare.”
In 2019, Harsanyi published “How The Media Enables Destructive Climate Change Hysteria” on the The Federalist. Harsanyi argues that climate change “scaremongering” has been going on for a long time., Harsanyi claims that “in reality, deaths from extreme weather have dropped somewhere around 99.9 percent since the 1920s,” and he says that “thanks to increasingly affordable fossil-fueled heating and air-conditioning systems, safer buildings, and better warning systems—among other technological advances—the vast majority of Americans will never have to fear weather in any genuine way.”
See Also:
Climate of Denial