The more he insists "the science is settled," the more Nobel Laureates poke up to retort, "Oh, no, it's not":
A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who supported Barack Obama has said that he does not believe global warming is a problem, and has openly criticized the president for his position on the issue.
"I would say that basically global warming is a non-problem," Dr. Ivar Giaever announced during a speech at the 65th Nobel Laureate Conference in Lindau, Germany, last week, according to Climate Depot.
Quoting Obama's warning that "no challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change," Giaever said it was a "ridiculous statement."
"I say this to Obama: Excuse me, Mr. President, but you're wrong. Dead wrong," he said, according to Climate Depot.
"Obama said last year that 2014 is [the] hottest year ever. But it's not true. It's not the hottest."
Giaever, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1973, questioned the theory behind fears about rising carbon dioxide levels and said that the theory is not backed by evidence.
"Global warming really has become a new religion. Because you cannot discuss it. It's not proper. It is like the Catholic Church." [emphases added]
Precisely. Although, as religious as its dogmatic trappings are, the global warming hoax is even more, at it's core, a pretext - one for justifying endlessly smothering government interventions into the economy to essentially shut it down by denying the country plentiful, affordable energy without which no modern society and economy can function.
It's a race, really. The entire global warming/climate change hysteria movement going back to Al Gore and An Inconvenient [Lie] built and escalated its propaganda volume for nearly twenty years until it reached its apex with Barack Obama's election in 2008. But ever since then, the superstructure of shrieking falsehoods upon which the global warming hoax was constructed, all the stacked and cherry-picked data, all the flagrantly exaggerated and unsupported assertions its adherents and false apostles insist are "facts" and "settled science" have systematically fallen apart, taken down one by one by actual scientists (as opposed to bought & paid for "political scientists"). As a result, "climate change" as an issue has become increasingly discredited. And that doesn't include the perpetually putrid state of the U.S. economy the past six and a half years raising jobs and the economy as issues to the top of the public's list and global warming to the bottom,
Why has this happened? Because environmentalism has always been an abstraction to the vast majority of Americans. When the economy is booming and unemployment is low, Americans respond favorably to "climate change" alarmism. Why? Because it's not costing them - us - anything personally. But as soon as its anti-energy policies get imposed and drive up the price of gasoline (and the price of everything, really, since every product has to be transported) and start costing more and more jobs, public enthusiasm for greenstremism evaporates. Which helps explain why the greenies grow ever shriller, and why Barack Obama is plowing ahead with draconian anti-energy crackdowns under the "combating climate change" umbrella.
Encouragingly, two State governors - one of them perhaps the next POTUS - are putting their nullificatory feet down:
As [Barack] Obama prepares to complete sweeping regulations aimed at tackling climate change, at least five Republican governors, including two presidential hopefuls, say they may refuse to carry out the rules in their States.
The resistance threatens to ignite a fierce clash between federal and State authorities, miring the climate rules in red tape for years. The fight could also undermine Obama’s efforts to urge other nations to enact similar plans this year as part of a major United Nations climate change accord.
Republican strategists say that rejection of Obama’s climate policy at the State level could emerge as a conservative litmus test in the 2016 election. Two of the governors who have said that they might defy the regulations — Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana — are among at least four Republican governors who are expected to vie for the presidential nomination.
Other governors who have issued threats over the rules include Greg Abbott of Texas, Mike Pence of Indiana and Mary Fallin of Oklahoma.
The line has to be drawn somewhere, and we know that The One will never stop bulldozing the country "forward". And the longer the States wait to start the Nullification Resistance, the more difficult it will become.
Perhaps it will even become a 2016 GOP rallying cry.
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