I just want to make sure I'm getting this right: The New York Times really has given a regular perch to a guy who thinks we should accept global warming because it'll increase ecotourism to the Arctic, right? This isn't some sort of metacolumn, or parody spot, or ill-directed attempt to eat in on The Onion's audience, at least so far as we know?
At least so far as we know.
I'm sticking with that.