Paul Krugman is brilliant on all things economic, but here he shows his genius for skewering the perfidy of the climate change deniers in our government:

... if you watched the debate on Friday, you didn’t see people who’ve thought hard about a crucial issue, and are trying to do the right thing. What you saw, instead, were people who show no sign of being interested in the truth. They don’t like the political and policy implications of climate change, so they’ve decided not to believe in it — and they’ll grab any argument, no matter how disreputable, that feeds their denial.

It is extraordinary that people can be so short-sighted, so no-sighted, frankly, so evil.  This was the kind of villainy that appears in Eye of the Whale.  It is always disturbing when your villains come to life--or confirm that your villains are based on reality.