Bret Stephens, the foreign-affairs columnist of the Wall Street Journal, and winner of the 2008 Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism, makes a good case in his column today that those in charge of the ongoing
United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen are using the same method of operation to achieve their goals as that used by V. I. Lenin, and that should concern anyone who believes in freedom. Stephens suspects that one of the things at work with the alarmists is what he calls the "totalitarian impulse." This is not to say that global warming true believers are closet Stalinists. But their intellectual methods are instructively similar.
