Getting out of our backyard for a moment, for me the silliest argument of the last 25 years was the witch-hunt conducted by academics in Denmark against Bjorn Lomborg for having the temerity to acknowledge the blindingly obvious (i.e. that in many ways the state of the environment has improved over the last several decades), and to do so with copious evidence.

The argument against Lomborg could only be carried out in bad faith. It’s disgraceful that the argument appealed to so many academics.