Earlier this week in his State of the Union address President Obama
made some observations on climate change so brimming with falsehoods I’m
surprised his nose didn’t fall off.
It really doesn’t matter where he himself was deliberately lying or
whether he was merely lending the gravitas of his office to the
deliberate lies of others. The point is that the President of the USA
has access to any number of fact checkers and advisers and if he stands
up and addresses the nation with a farrago of complete untruths then the
buck stops with him. This dissembling and mendacity becomes all the
more culpable when it forms the basis of major public policy decisions
which will have a serious impact on people’s lives in the US and beyond.
So why this snake-oil salesman being allowed to get away with it?
Here’s the offending part of Obama’s speech.
Now, it’s true that no single event makes a trend. But
the fact is, the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last
15. Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, floods, all are now more frequent
and more intense. We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and
the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states
have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence. Or we can choose to
believe in the overwhelming judgment of science and act before it’s too
late.
And here’s Marc Morano’s unanswerable point by point rebuttal.
Obama’s war on climate change is a war against a chimera. He is
enlarging the state, holding back the economic recovery, restricting
freedoms, driving up the price of energy and killing jobs in order to
deal with a problem which only exists in the discredited computer
projections of a shameless cabal of grant-troughing activist scientists
increasingly out of touch with real world data.
So why, outside the internet, has no one called him on it?
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