Climate Mafia Chronicles
Okay, this Obama guy is really starting to annoy me. John has already noted Obama's risible comments about "climate deniers" in the commencement address he gave at UC Irvine the other day, and as I argued last week in the Weekly Standard, Obama and the rest of the climatistas are swatting after the thinnest of straw men, as there is virtually no one who is saying climate change doesn't happen. The climatistas resolutely refuse to engage in any deliberations about the question of how much, and refuse to consider alternatives to their lust to gain control of the energy sector.
Instead the climatistas continue to behave like a cross between a religious cult and the mafia. The latest outrage concerns Caleb Rossiter, a left-leaning professor of media studies at American University and a fellow with the very-left Institute for Policy Studies who wrote a terrific op-ed for the Wall Street Journal entitled "Sacrificing Africa for Climate Change." Rossiter makes a simple point that escapes the climate policy "reality deniers" (sauce for the goose I say) that requiring expensive energy in an energy-staved world is to condemn millions of people to continue their lives of misery. The agenda of the climatistas is just a new form of neocolonialism, Rossiter thinks...Also read:
No one buying claim that Lois Lerner's IRS emails were lost
Sharyl Attkisson has a few questions about the Lerner e-mails
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