Read here and here. Read, and then re-read, those two articles by the supposed NYT liberal/leftist smart "elites," in the context of the latest climate science fraud revelations. Both Friedman and Krugman have long bought into the "consensus" climate science, without even flinching. Despite....
thousands of scientists stating the human-caused global warming science is highly questionable, Friedman and Krugman voted via their columns with those who have become the most infamous scientist frauds of this generation. The climate science liars and the frauds easily played these two pundits and the New York Times, like the proverbial violins, in order to spread the expanding global warming lies. And you know what, these two NYT elites just flat-out parroted the global warming lies without a scintilla of critical thought or hesitation. That was really stooopid since the real facts and truth about global warming were eventually going to come out, which these NYT elites knew. (Or, OTOH, maybe these two actually believed the global warming scam, which really makes them stupid.)
Finally, let's be honest here in that Friedman and Krugman are the typical leftist/liberal elite (but not all) that condones scientific fraud. Why? Well...,you see, it's always those pesky real facts and actual empirical evidence, which inconveniently get in the way of the favored, next socialist, utopian, big government brain-scheme these people are forever conjuring up to be forced on the rest of us. It's as simple as that and pretty much explains why leftist/liberals lie about everything.