Global Warming Skeptics Equal Slave Owners?

That's what qualifies as cleverness in both the New York Times and academia.

“Just as few people saw a moral problem with slavery in the 18th century, few people in the 21st century see a moral problem with the burning of fossil fuels,” Professor [Andrew] Hoffman [of the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and School of Natural Resources] said. “Will people in 100 years look at us with the same incomprehension we feel toward 18th-century defenders of slavery?”

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/nyt-hey-this-professor-makes-a-good-point-when-he-compares-global-warming-skeptics-to-defenders-of-slavery-106126563.html#ixzz13kjJBjAi