Nancy pants, while in Germany, states that “climate change is reality” and then wishes the President would take a different path on the issue.

The problem is that nobody on the left or the right is denying that climate change is happening.  The President has certainly never denied that climate change is happening, as he states in a speech from 2001:

First, we know the surface temperature of the earth is warming. It has risen by .6 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years. There was a warming trend from the 1890s to the 1940s. Cooling from the 1940s to the 1970s. And then sharply rising temperatures from the 1970s to today.

There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat, and thus warm the earth because they prevent a significant proportion of infrared radiation from escaping into space. Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicate that the increase is due in large part to human activity.

Yet, the Academy’s report tells us that we do not know how much effect natural fluctuations in climate may have had on warming. We do not know how much our climate could, or will change in the future. We do not know how fast change will occur, or even how some of our actions could impact it.

It’d be nice if Nancy would stop lying about the President’s positions.

Regardless, this is exactly where I’m at with global warming.  We know it’s happening.  We know that certain human activities contribute to it.  We don’t know how much of it is being caused by natural trends.  We don’t know if changing human activities will stop it, and we don’t even know if it even can be stopped.

What the President opposes, but leftists from Pelosi to Al Gore support, is stringent government policies levying heavy taxes on industry and severely regulating the way we live our lives without any conclusive evidence that such policies will actually have an impact on climate change.

Which is the common sense position to have.  Gore and Pelosi would have that position too if they saw the climate change issue as anything other than an excuse to consolidate government power.