It is no longer generally accepted that Human Caused Global Warming is a genuine problem. Since they have lost the general argument, the Global Warming cultists pulled out all the stops to convince people of the problem on two specific days.
Before Election Day, they pulled the Mother of All Data Fudges and reported all of Russia's September temperature data for October, resulting in the Warmest October on Record, just in time for Barack Obama to be elected.
Immediately after the election, they had to admit their error, and looked like complete idiots and undermined the public faith in the reliability of their data.
Just before Election Day, the sensor for one of the two satellites that monitor Arctic ice “malfunctioned”, giving the erroneous result that Arctic ice cover was at historic lows, when in fact it was 30% more than the previous year.
Immediately after the inauguration, they had to admit that the satellite was grossly inaccurate, and that they reported the obviously anomalous data, instead of the accurate date from the functional satellite. Again, the public faith in the data was shaken.
You can tell they are panicked when they stop trying to win the argument and try to win the argument on one or two isolated days. This was George W. Bush's great talent, who was above 50% approval on only two days in eight years, both on Election Day. But, on the long haul, they are losing the argument, and they know it.
And now, the public is not going to be at all interested in their massive new tax proposals. Cap and Trade will go down in flames.
I certainly hope so...but after today and what they have planned with forcing Chrysler and GM to make "clean" cars I am not so sure....
I am looking for articles on that last comment which I heard on Kudlow's show on CNBC.
Agreed.
Getting 60 votes in the Senate is a near impossibility, particularly from coal producing states like North Dakota and Pennsylvania.