It has been troubling to see aggressive members of the climate lobby, not apt to let any natural disaster go to waste by failing to label it a direct effect of rising global temperatures, quick to declare the Los Angeles fires purely a symptom of America’s love for fossil fuel. Drive an electric car, they demand, or more of this apocalyptic stuff is on the way. Ditch your straws, they bully, or a tornado, hurricane or fire is headed toward a neighborhood near you. Fear has too frequently been the tool of choice with much of that crew. I welcome substantive debate about climate change public policy, but the knee-jerk alarmism from the left, and the environmental hypocrisy of many of its supposedly greenest of leaders, is causing much of America to tune out the issue entirely.