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The Cato Institute has taken out a newspaper ad that takes issue with Obama’s global warming support and is signed by many distinguished scientists.

“Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change.The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.”
— PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA, NOVEMBER 19 , 2008
With all due respect Mr. President, that is not true.

We, the undersigned scientists, maintain that the case for alarm regarding climate change is grossly overstated. Surface temperature changes over the past century have been episodic and modest and there has been no net global warming for over a decade now.1,2 After controlling for population growth and property values, there has been no increase in damages from severe weather-related events.3 The computer models forecasting rapid temperature change abjectly fail to explain recent climate behavior.4 Mr. President, your characterization of the scientific facts regarding climate change and the degree of certainty informing the scientific debate is simply incorrect.

On the one hand I don’t get it, these people like Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Clinton, are supposed to be as our leaders, well informed on both sides of the question on all the things they must deal with and yet they are no better than say your local garbage collector who gets his information from the nightly news on CNN. Don’t they have advisors, curiosity, doubts?

On the other hand of course they don’t care about whether something is correct or not, only how it can be used to increase their power, and the imaginary catastrophes, whether global warming or the ‘crisis of capitalism’ only matter as far as they will advance that end.

And they were voted in by those who only get their information from the nightly news on CNN.

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