Obama: We’ll Have To “Deal” With Scientists Who Don’t Toe The Line On Global Warming
Remember when Obama promised not to politicize science? That was just something he said.
In the blame game, the Obama administration isn’t about to stop with Fox News. Instead, it’s moving on to lowly scientists.
Last month, President Obama gave a somewhat chilling, if somewhat ignored, speech on climate change at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He stated that any scientific debate about the magnitude of global warming is unscrupulous, decrying “those who . . . make cynical claims that contradict the overwhelming scientific evidence when it comes to climate change, whose only purpose is to defeat or delay the change that we know is necessary.”
Then, the president talked tough, saying, “We’ll just have to deal with those people,” language familiar to anyone who knows the vagaries of Chicago politics.
As Glenn Reynolds notes, journalists who don’t agree with Obama aren’t “real” journalists. Scientists who don’t agree with Obama aren’t “real” scientists.
