Rich Lowry is an American writer who is editor-in-chief of National Review magazine. He writes for a number of publications, including Politico and the New York Post.
On Climate Change
Lowry wrote a 2022 article on Bakersfield.com, a Californian online news site, called Joe Biden’s Bogus Climate Emergency. He discusses Biden’s recent announcement that climate change is an “emergency,” and is “an existential threat to our nation.” Lowry disagrees, stating that “the warming of the planet is a long-fuse phenomenon that has built up steadily over time…and won’t soon be affected even by radical steps.” Lowry finds it “laughable” that “an advanced 21st century society…can’t deal with additional heat during the summer, or for that matter, more adverse weather events.”
In another 2022 article from the New York post, Across the World, Environmentalists Leave Only Misery in Their Wake, discusses how “the climate-obsessed green movement is the most stupidly self-destructive force…leaving a trail of irrationality, folly and misery wherver it goes.” Lowry refers to climate change activists as having a “quasi-religious vision” and possessing a “righteous duty to make it harder and more expensive to power a modern economy,” as well as rejecting “cost-benefit analysis, not to mention basic realism.”
Similarly, in The Joplin Globe piece No, Joe, We’re Not in a ‘Climate Crisis’, Lowry talks about Biden’s announcement of his climate and energy team, in which he called climate change “an existential threat of our time.” Lowry echoes statements made in the Bakersfield article, saying that “the globe has been getting warmer for decades now, with no adverse effects on human population or longevity,” but cites Bjørn Lomberg and his claim that “the U.N. isn’t sure whether flooding overall is getting more or less frequent,” or that “the amount of land that is burning around the globe has fallen sharply…”
See Also
Willie Soon
Climate alarmism
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