STILL SLICK AFTER ALL THESE YEARS – AT 9:28 P.M. ET:   Bill Clinton has a way of reminding us periodically just how slick he can be, and that is not a compliment.

Apparently, Clinton has now bought into the whole climate-change bit, and he's gotten almost as bad as Al Gore.  I mean, just listen to this:

Bill Clinton turned up the heat on the leading Republican presidential contenders Tuesday, saying their opposition to acknowledging climate change makes the country “look like a joke.”

Factually incorrect.  Republicans do not dispute that climate changes.  Of course it does.  The issues are 1) the degree to which humans cause changes; 2) whether anything can be done about it without breaking the economic back of civlization; 3) whether anything should be done; 4) what should be done.

“If you’re an American, the best thing you can do is to make it politically unacceptable for people to engage in denial” about climate change, the former president said on the first day of the Clinton Global Initiative’s seventh annual meeting in New York City.

In other words, one must not ask questions.  And this man considers himself educated. 

“I mean, it makes us — we look like a joke, right? You can’t win the nomination of one of the major parties in the country if you admit that the scientists are right? That disqualifies you from doing it? You could really help us there,” Clinton added.

What scientists is he talking about?  There are some awfully big names among the dissenters, including Nobel laureates.  Are they all nuts?  Do they all work for oil companies?  Clinton, Gore, and their crowd are getting awfully close to the old Soviet tactic of declaring mentally ill anyone who dissents.

Kicking off the three-day conference, Clinton called the lack of debate in America on climate change “really tragic.”

COMMENT:  Well, Mr. Clinton, who's responsible for the lack of debate?  It's your side, which declares global warming "settled science" and refuses to discuss the serious doubts.  But there's no such thing as settled science.  By its nature, science is unsettled, and always subject to inquiry.

Also, many people are becoming aware of how much money is being made on the climate change industry.  I'm not saying that Clinton has cashed in, but Gore certainly has.  And yet the press will ask no questions.

Clinton's whole tone is ugly, more appropriate for a totalitarian state than a democracy. 

September 20, 2011