Jonathan A. Lesser is an adjunct fellow and a “climate expert” at the Manhattan Institute. He is also president of Continental Economics.
He has published articles such as “Conflicting Agendas: Economic Growth vs. The Greens?,” “Climate Change Follies,” “When Wind Power Freezes,” and “The “Transition from Oil” and Other Fairy Tales.”
He has called Biden’s climate change plans “hot air” and called it an unfortunate “teaser for what’s to come.” He also tried to persuade people that electric vehicles are worse for the environment because they “will have no impact whatsoever on climate, and thus have no economic benefit.”
In late 2019, he wrote that the 2020 candidates’ plans for climate change “ranged from unrealistic (to be generous) to outright delusional.” The article also made the claim that the plans would “gut the US economy and lead to soaring energy prices, which would impoverish all of us. In return, their plans would have no measurable effect on the world’s climate. Zero. Zip. Nada.”
In another article, Lesser claimed that abiding by the voluntary Paris Climate Agreement will “impose huge costs on American consumers and taxpayers” “all to avoid a global temperature increase of one-tenth of 1 degree Celsius.” He said that these higher costs will create higher costs for everything in the United States and will “reduce US competitiveness.”
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Climate of Denial