"Obama Said to be Skeptical About Global Warming"

China Confidential: Obama Said to be Skeptical About Global Warming

Good news for frightened Americans. The Candidate of Change could be having serious second thoughts about global warming.

Sources familiar with Barack Obama's ... changing ... views on the subject say the presumptive Democratic candidate for President (a) is no longer certain that the Earth is actually still warming, and (b) is open to the argument that the warming, if it indeed is still occurring, may not be caused by human activity. The shift in thinking explains Obama's willingness to consider offshore oil drilling as part of the solution to the energy crisis.

Campaign insiders say the Senator from Illinois is inching closer to "a T. Boone Pickens strategy," on energy, which emphasizes solar, wind, and natural gas, than to the anti-oil and gas extremism of former Vice President Al Gore. The global warming zealot, who has crusaded to make "carbon" synonymous with pollution, is reportedly stunned by Obama's newfound global warming skepticism. Sources say the two men spoke recently, and Gore was totally taken aback by the Illinois Senator's refusal to accept anthropogenic global warming--and looming catastrophic climate change--as "settled science."