Power Line - AGW: How We Know It's Bunk

As the Obama administration takes shape, one important issue that will come to the fore is climate change. On this issue, like so many others, the Bush administration was rather schizoid: Bush himself acknowledged the "reality" of global warming, thereby ceding the issue on principle, but his sounder instincts caused him and his administration to drag their feet on doing anything that would be ruinous to the economy. Obama so far has displayed no such ambivalence. At present, there is no reason to doubt that his administration will try to implement severe measures in hopes of changing the world's weather.
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It will be interesting to see whether the Obama administration proves to be open to backtracking on AGW. As noted above, there is no sign of such indecision so far. But poll data indicate that most Americans don't buy the global warming theory, notwithstanding (or maybe because of) unremitting propaganda from the Left. And whatever mandate Obama may or may not have, he certainly does not have a mandate to devastate the economy through ill-considered environmental measures.