How Did We Know a "Climate Debate" Column Was Written by Jeff Jacoby?

Because the man's predictably racist, transphobic, and otherwise thoughtless. Jacoby's column today suggests that the recent Waxman-Markey environmental protection act is a bad idea, because there is some doubt that global warming is as influenced by man's actions as it would seem. Climate change may not be a crisis of the proportions that some have suggested. But we clearly have a finite supply of many energy-creating natural resources, and there's nothing wrong with using these conservatively, rather than liberally (as ironic as that terminology may be), and with exploring renewable energy options. We've been an industrialized world for barely 100 year: what happens in the next 100 years, when we may use more fuel than in the past 10? Many developing countries, China and India in particular, are industrializing rapidly, and creating pollution and depleting resources in the process. Obama's prudent approach is smarter than Jacoby's bitter, reactionary rhetoric, and taking steps to better understand and mitigate our impact on the environment is better than denying it altogether. Jacoby consistently persists in exactly the types of gross generalizations for which he criticizes others, making him a hypocrite at worst and a sensationalist at best. This is not the type of "reporting" that will save the Globe.