From NRO Online:
More ‘Work’ for the President
The Obama administration takes aim at climate scientists.
By Patrick J. MichaelsIn the blame game, the Obama administration isn’t about to stop with Fox News. Instead, it’s moving on to lowly scientists.
Last month, President Obama gave a somewhat chilling, if somewhat ignored, speech on climate change at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He stated that any scientific debate about the magnitude of global warming is unscrupulous, decrying “those who . . . make cynical claims that contradict the overwhelming scientific evidence when it comes to climate change, whose only purpose is to defeat or delay the change that we know is necessary.”
Then, the president talked tough, saying, “We’ll just have to deal with those people,” language familiar to anyone who knows the vagaries of Chicago politics.
This surely isn’t the first time in world history that some president, premier, or pope has attempted to define science and threaten those who disagree. But the truth of the matter is that disagreement, one way or another, is a given. One can selectively cite recent climate data in support of pretty much any point of view, from the rejection of any influence by humankind at all to the wild notion that the world is about to come to an end.
Meanwhile, a real scientist from MIT has a starkly different view of the "settled science." He is obviously one of those with whom the President will "have to deal." This is a real lecture with real science using real scientific thinking. 6 parts - 1 hour... you can learn something. [h/t Lubos Motl - The Reference Frame]