Obama and His Cardiff Giant
This post originally appeared on American Thinker today.
The Cardiff Giant, known as “America’s Greatest Hoax,” has new competition for the title — Global Warming. Recent revelations
of what appear to be doctored data, corrupted scientists and pressured
peer reviews have produced terms such as climategate, climaqquidick and
similar pejoratives. Describing the events of the past week, Senator
Jim Inhofe, a consistent critic of the science said: “Ninety-five
percent of the nails were in the coffin prior to this week. Now they
are all in.”
Despite what appears evidence of outright fraud, President Obama
refuses to acknowledge, no less investigate, what is increasingly
becoming known as “The World’s Greatest Hoax.” Obama’s intentions to go
off to Copenhagen, pretending that “the science is settled,” is a
political gaffe of enormous proportion. It puts whatever is left of his
rapidly diminishing credibility at risk, as well as his agenda.
Most political disagreements are ideological and too complex to
easily prove anything. Health care is a good example. It is ideological
and many-faceted. There is no definitive way to “prove” that one side
is right and the other wrong. In health care that was particularly
evident as the objectives (”marketing’ to the public?) shifted as
required. In situations like this, credibility is all important. “Can I
trust what this man says?” becomes the measure that the public uses to
support or reject these complex issues.
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