President Obama has developed a perpetual excuse in the post-"blame Bush" era of his presidency. When questioned on what he is doing about important matters like Syria, ISIS, the economy, jobs, etc., he responds: "What we are really leading on is global warming."
ISIS on the march? Sorry - if we don't stop global warming then ISIS won't matter. "Putin is leading in Syria and embarrassing you, Mr. President," said Steve Kroft on "60 Minutes."
Obama's answer? "He is not leading on global warming like me."
Without a balanced debate on facts, Democrats have pronounced that the science on global warming is "settled" and then impied that you are an idiot if you disagree. They smugly call anyone who questions the theory "flat Earthers," suggesting that you simply are not as smart as they are because you have not been bullied into believing it.
Obama went to Alaska in August and stood in front of a melting glacier to prove it in the best way he knows: with a photo-op. Again, he chose August. Most things melt there then, along with his argument.
Many Democrats say global warming is a civil rights issue, as they seem to play the race card on everything. All 52 cards in their deck seem to be race cards.
Then Dems say they are working on solving this theoretical problem, but it is going to take you trusting them and asking no questions, and lots of tax dollars given to their cronies in the global warming fleecing industry.
The same climatologists who cannot accurately the predict weather five days out tell us what the Earth's temperature will be in 30 years versus what it should be - and that the seas will rise two feet, perhaps drowning Tom Cruise or Mayor Bloomberg.
Global warming fits the Left's faux compassionate persona, or, as P.J. O'Rourke would call it, "a fashionable worry." If someone were to sing "Last Train to Clarksville" on the street, people would call him an idiot. But if the same person leans over to his neighbor on the subway and asks, "How can you smile while Earth is falling apart and dying?," he acquires an air of seriousness, intellect and compassion.
Aside from the costs, regulations and the uncertainty that we can even do anything about global warming, funding for real world aid causes is now diverted to this fake one. In their rush to seem concerned, countries like France and the U.S., along with the African Development Bank, continue to add to their "climate aid" efforts by diverting billions in real aid. So, instead of sending food, medicine and potable water options to poor countries like Mozambique, we will now be sending them solar panels and Teslas.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has looked at this trend of diverting money to "climate aid" from actual, tangible and immediate needs, like food. It has determined that 25 percent of the money historically devoted to relief is now going to climate-related "aid." This amounts to billions of dollars redirected from actually helping the needy to buying them solar panels (made in China using power plants fueled by coal), which the receiving nation's ruling junta will strip for parts and sell.
Across the world, 1.4 billion children live in poverty, and 2.6 billion lack clean drinking water or basic sanitation. This new "feel good" directive to divert real aid money to the global warming shakedown industry is costly.
With dubious, self-serving climatological research, emails debunking data and holes in theories being exposed, the "settled science" is anything but. A leaked U.N. report on climate change admits that solar activity might have a greater role in global warming than previously thought. So the sun might cause heating on Earth? Wow, it's always the last place you'd think.
All these inconvenient truths are mounting. Al Gore's Academy Award- and Nobel Peace Prize-winning film, "An Inconvenient Truth," might round out its liberal award trifecta by also winning a Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Ron Hart is a syndicated op-ed humorist, author, and TV and radio commentator. Contact him at Ron@RonaldHart.com.