Yesterday President Obama joined the Flat Earth Society.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not how he put it, of course. \u00a0Just the opposite. \u00a0He said, \u201cWe don\u2019t have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society,\u201d i.e. those not prepared to join him in embracing radical anti-fossil fuel policies.<\/p>\n
Put another way, he meant forget about Congress. \u00a0Congress has repeatedly rejected legislation to authorize what Mr. Obama announced yesterday he would do anyway, essentially by decree. \u00a0For example, the administration backed a cap and trade bill in 2010. \u00a0Designed to limit the use of coal and oil, it was so unpopular in that year\u2019s overwhelmingly\u00a0Democratic<\/i>\u00a0Congress that Majority Leader Harry Reid ultimately withdrew it. \u00a0The issue was not overcoming a filibuster. \u00a0Reid knew that the bill would have lost an up and down vote on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n
Of course, the president was also saying that opponents of anti-climate change legislation are so ignorant of science that they aren\u2019t worth talking to. \u00a0Who is the truly ignorant one?<\/p>\n
Hasn\u2019t anyone told the president that the average global temperature has not increased in fifteen years? \u00a0As Pacific Research Institute senior fellow Steven Hayward reported recently in\u00a0The Weekly Standard<\/i>:<\/p>\n After two decades of steady and substantial global temperature increase from 1980 to 1998, the pause in warming is causing a crisis for the climate crusade. It wasn\u2019t supposed to happen like this. The recent temperature record is falling distinctly to the very low end of the range predicted by the climate models and may soon fall out of it, which means the models are wrong, or, at the very least, something is going on that supposedly \u201csettled\u201d science hasn\u2019t been able to settle. (full article at:http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/articles\/climate-circus-leaves-town_718070.html)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n Just last week, Germany\u2019s\u00a0Spiegle Online International<\/i>\u00a0posted an interview with Hans von Storch, professor at the Meteorological Institute of the University of Hamburg\u00a0and among Germany\u2019s most renowned climate scientist.\u00a0Storch said:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n If things continue as they have been, in five years, at the latest, we will need to acknowledge that something is fundamentally wrong with our climate models. A 20-year pause in global warming does not occur in a single modeled scenario. But even today, we are finding it very difficult to reconcile actual temperature trends with our expectations. (full interview here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/interview-hans-von-storch-on-problems-with-climate-change-models-a-906721.html)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
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