The economy stagnates. Syria burns. Scandals lap at his feet. China and Russia mock him, even as a “29-year-old hacker” revealed his nation’s spy secrets to the world. How does President Obama respond? With a grandiloquent speech on climate change.
Climate change? It lies at the very bottom of a list of Americans’ concerns (last of 21 — Pew poll). Which means that Obama’s declaration
of unilateral American war on global warming, whatever the cost — and
it will be heavy — is either highly visionary or hopelessly solipsistic.
You decide:
Global temperatures have been flat for 16 years — a
curious time to unveil a grand, hugely costly, socially disruptive
anti-warming program.
READ MORE: http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-07-04/opinions/40369711_1_warming-climate-change-global-temperatures
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