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Defend America on Saturday, February 13, 2010 9:39:58 AM
February 11, 2010 12:00 A.M.
The Trouble with Elitist Theories
Nobody likes to be lectured by those claiming superior wisdom but lacking common sense.
What’s behind the Tea Party protests, low approval ratings for Congress, distrust of the media, and unease with experts in the Obama administration?
In short, a growing anger at the sermonizing and condescension by many of America’s elites.
We see this specifically, for example, in the debate over global warming, which a year ago was accepted as gospel.The high profile of prestigious scientists, former public officials like Al Gore and Van Jones, and the Obama
administration all made impending cap-and-trade legislation seem
likely. Skeptics were derided as “deniers” and virtual know-nothings.
But then the assertion of manmade climate change met a perfect storm.
First, several high academic priests of global warming were
discredited. Leaked e-mails at East Anglia University in the United
Kingdom revealed doctored evidence, personal vendettas, and cover-ups
among scientists.
More recently, the U.N.’s Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change admitted it had relied on faulty information,
leading it to make inflated claims on impending manmade warming
disasters involving Himalayan glaciers.
These exposés dovetailed with a series of unconnected events that further undermined the climate-change diktat.
http://article.nationalreview.com/424633/the-trouble-with-elitist-theories/victor-davis-hanson