On March 5, North Korea simultaneously launched four missiles into Japan’s territorial waters. In his new year’s address, the North’s supreme leader, Kim Jong Un, bragged that his nuclear-armed rogue state would soon be testing an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the US. A day later, President Trump tweeted in response, “It won’t happen!” but characteristically didn’t elaborate. On March 17, Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, visited the demilitarized zone on the border between North and South Korea and stated, “Let me be very clear, the policy of strategic patience has ended.”

In my new book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, Vol. 2: The Way Forward, I warn that a new “Axis of Evil” has now formed, one which gravely threatens the US. Due to the eight years of feckless leadership provided by our former Commander in Chief, that axis is now comprised of North Korea, Iran, Russia, and China. Most Americans instinctively know that revanchist Russia, run by a former Soviet KGB capo, is a hostile power. Yet most would also be reluctant to view China as an enemy, despite the obvious fact that it refuses to prevent its rogue client state, North Korea, from threatening the US. This is the unmistakable act of a hostile power.

Just as the American left is horribly mistaken in believing that its adherence to the dogma of Obama’s “strategic patience,” or that appeasement of our fervent adversaries are means to improve our national security, so too does its slavish devotion to anthropogenic climate change contribute to our greater peril. Both are threats to our national security. Both are wrong and are based on false assumptions, bad data, and historical illiteracy.

Man-made climate change can be debunked in many ways. For example, the March issue of the Smithsonian Magazine (not exactly a bastion of […]