White House Climate Change Comments Show Obama’s Ideological Intolerance

Politics: President Obama paints skeptics of global warming as crackpots, while his cabinet threatens the job of anyone who doesn't toe the same phony orthodoxy. This is emblematic of a political, not a scientific, agenda.

It's truly sad that a sitting U.S. president would "tweet" something as fatuous as the following: "Gravity Exists. The Earth Is Round. Climate Change Is Happening." But President Obama did.

This trite catchphrase shows the utter lack of seriousness of his administration — and the impoverished state of its scientific knowledge.

Obama's interior secretary, Sally Jewell, recently showed she's on board: "I hope there are no climate-change deniers in the Department of Interior," she said.

Make no mistake: This is a warning. Don't believe it? Ask Alan Carlin, a former high-level EPA official who was "retired" in 2010 for daring to write a report that questioned the threat of global warming.

Ideological intolerance permeates this White House.

And contrary to the misleading White House statements, few deny that the climate is changing. It's always changing. That's how climate is.

But "climate change" is different from "global warming," the idea the left has pushed for more than two decades before shifting to the less-specific "climate change." Why the shift? Because over the last 18 years, Earth's surface temperatures show no significant warming at all.

This is key, since the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report — the global warming movement's bible, developed from 21 separate climate models — predicts that temperature increases are inevitable as CO2 levels rise. Clearly, all those models are wrong.

Along with his tweet, Obama also repeats another big lie: that scientists are virtually unanimous in believing man-made global warming threatens the planet.

They base this on a NASA-backed survey that purportedly shows 97% agreeing with that sentiment. But do they? In fact, the 97% merely agreed that temperatures have increased since 1950, which they have, and that human-caused CO2 emissions likely contributed to it.

In reality, there's no consensus. Indeed, a peer-reviewed survey of 1,077 geoscientists and engineers this year found only 36% believe humans are responsible for global warming. Most said nature is the main cause.

Science is a wonderful thing — until it's perverted by political ideologues, like those in the White House.

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