2018 he argued that by the same logic Republicans used to justify the impeachment of Bill Clinton, they should impeach Trump. Global warming Stephens is also known for his climate change contrarianism. He has been described as a climate change denier, but disavows that term, calling himself agnostic on the issue. Stephens considers climate change a "20-year-old mass hysteria phenomenon" and rejects the notion that greenhouse-gas emissions are an environmental threat. According to him, "it isn't science" and belongs into the "realm of belief" as it is a "sick-souled religion". He also mocks climate change activism as hysterical alarmism, denying that any significant temperature change will occur in the next 100 years and arguing that it distracts from more important issues, such as terrorism. Stephens claims that global warming activism is based on theological beliefs, rather than science, as an outgrowth of Western tendencies to expect punishment for sins. He has also suggested that activists would be more persuasive if they were less sure of their beliefs. Stephens's positions on this issue led to a protest in 2013 over his Pulitzer citation omitting his climate change columns, and to a strong backlash against his 2017 hiring by The New York Times. In reaction, The New York Times praised Stephens's "intellectual honesty and fairness". As of October 28, 2022, Stephens said that he had come to accept the reality of anthropogenic climate change after a trip to Greenland with climate scientist John Englander, although he believes that markets are more effective than government at addressing the problem. Published works America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder (November 2014), Has Obama Made the World a More Dangerous Place?: The Munk Debate on U.S. Foreign Policy (August 2015), The Dying Art of Disagreement (December 2017), References External links 1973 births 20th-century American journalists 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American journalists 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers Alumni of the London School of Economics American expatriates in Mexico American foreign policy writers American male journalists American male non-fiction writers American people of Moldovan-Jewish descent American political commentators American political writers American Zionists Bastiat Prize winners Jewish American writers Journalists from New York City Living people MSNBC people Middlesex School alumni NBC News people Neoconservatism Pulitzer Prize for Commentary winners The Jerusalem Post editors The New York Times columnists The Wall Street Journal people University