It was refreshing to see Michael Grunwald [“Warming to the Inconvenient Facts,” Outlook, July 23] acknowledge that sharply cutting greenhouse gas emissions is not a trivial exercise but would require us to “change the way we think about transportation, agriculture, development, water resources, natural disasters, foreign relations and more.”

Visiting Fellow Kenneth P. Green

It's a shame that both politicians and the mainstream media have hidden this truth, deriding as “climate-change deniers” anyone disagreeing with deceptive claims that reducing greenhouse gas emissions can be done on the cheap, with little impact on people's lives.

While the would-be greenhouse gas police will continue to wave away critics, the inconvenient truth is that greenhouse gas reduction is not simply a matter of plugging in compact fluorescent bulbs or driving hybrid cars--it's a matter of having the government impose controls over virtually all energy-related aspects of our daily lives.

Yes, the climate is changing. Yes, humans may be partially responsible. Now, let's have a serious discussion of what it means to respond intelligently.

Kenneth P. Green is a visiting fellow at AEI.