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In The Bush Tragedy, a recently published, depressing view of the Bush presidency, author Jacob Weisberg writes that
Bush thought examining evidence was beneath him. 'The President of the United States is not a fact checker,' as one aide put it...
A flashback of "I'm a uniter, not a divider" was clanging around my brain pan , morphing into "I'm a decider, not a diviner" as I read and tried to assimilate this. It's one thing to have difficulty seeing the logical connection between a large amount of disparate experiments and a complex argument such as occurs when considering climate change. It's quite another thing to act as if the data doesn't exist - a truly irrational, scary denial for any POTUS.
In a more- than -chance occurrence, just around the same time that TBT was released, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) issued a position statement titled Human Impacts on Climate , which begins
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