Leader of None

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Sep 08, 2009
Leader of none

Obama’s global warming policies have few US followers - and fewer on the global stage
Paul Driessen - 8 September 2009
“Few challenges facing America - and the world - are more urgent than combating climate change,” President Obama has asserted. “We will make it clear that America is ready to lead.” The President and Al Gore are certainly ready to lead. But how many will follow?

Even in America, and certainly on the world stage, the two increasingly look like Don Quixote and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. As they tilt for windmills, and against a “monstrous giant of infamous repute” - climate disasters conjured up by computer models and Hollywood special effects masters - their erstwhile followers are making politically correct noises, but running for the hills...