Climate [hoax] hawkery requires no particular position on climate science | Grist

In other words, [Obama is] saying, you ought to be a climate hawk even if you're unconvinced or unmoved by climate science. [?!]

An email from Howard Hayden in reply to the NYT

The notion that there is a scientific "consensus" about global warming is at once false and irrelevant. There has never been a poll of scientific opinion on the subject, and rightly so, because scientific veracity is a matter of objective reality, not of opinion.

What would you think of a drug company that approached the FDA for licensing of a new product with the following case? "Our supercomputers say the drug is safe and effective. We can't think of any other reason for the results to come out the way our computers say they do. Moreover, failure to license the drug will have disastrous consequences."