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Obama won the presidency thumpingly. The progressive winds were behind his back. The country was overflowing with hope and enthusiasm. His inauguration was like some godsent event — for us and the world. At the Inaugural Balls, Michele appeared all fluffily snow-white-begowned, the magical princess in a happy-ending fairy tale, haloes descending on us all.
The wreck that was America called for bold action FDR-style. The time had come to bring Wall Street to its senses and concentrate on putting Main Street back on its feet. Instead of having government by the rich of the rich and for the rich, it was time for government by and for the people again. Time to clean out the stables. Time for change we wanted to believe in. A magic wand as big as a sequioa tree was about to be waved.
What happened?
Skeptics have been making the case for some time that there’s something amiss in the climate change debate. At the heart of it is the failure of a few leading scientists to maintain scientific integrity above all other considerations. There is something peculiar about climate change that makes some of us want/need to believe in something despite contrary evidence or even lack of evidence. That’s not science. It’s religion. And thus certain leading climate scientists are finding themselves the butt of a growing body of climate change humor. So it goes.
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