Did Kasich Just Do an About-Face on Climate Change?

Maybe it’s because he is still feeling his way as a late entrant into the GOP presidential campaign, but Ohio Gov. John Kasich did a fairly dramatic about-face over the weekend on the politically charged issue of climate change.

Kasich, a devout Christian, declared during the two-hour debate sponsored by Fox News that climate change is a real problem requiring government and society to protect the “creation that the Lord has given us.”

While the vast majority of Republicans on Capitol Hill and the campaign trail are highly skeptical of President Obama’s campaign to curb industrial carbon emissions to prevent the disastrous long term effects of global warming on the environment and economy, Kasich appeared to be one of the few who took the threat seriously.

He emphasized the importance of unity and cooperation, saying at one point that “we’ve got to unite our country again, because we’re stronger when we are united and we are weaker when we are divided.”

Just a few days later, though, after winning plaudits for his Thursday night performance – with some even favorably comparing his views on environmental threats to those of Pope Francis – Kasich sounded much like a climate-change doubter.

Smart man.
What was it someone said many years ago?
"Consistency is the hobgloblin of small minds"; Emerson.
More recently, "If the facts change, my response must change. A variant of the true scientific method.

It is undisputed, at this point that the "Climate Change" evangelicals are rife with fraud, financial opportunists and the politically power hungry. And little else.

When you have no core philosophy, or life long guiding principles, you can be whatever you want to be on any given day.

A set of Lifelong guiding principles is a two-edged sword.
Ultimately, the facts and truth prevail. There are so many embarrassing historical individuals who discovered (or not) that truism:

"The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys." ---Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer, British Post Office, 1878.

"X-Rays will prove to be a hoax." - Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, 1883.

"A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth's atmosphere." --- New York Times, 1936.

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." -- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), in a talk given to a 1977 World Future Society Meeting in Boston.

"There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will"-- Albert Einstein, 1932.

"Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night." -- Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, 20th Century Fox, 1946.

When facts change, the true scientist or expert, also changes his view of the subject.

Fanatics and dogmatists (or outright frauds,) usually go down with the sinking ship.
And note that government never played a role in the ultimate positive resolution of transcendental technical world problems or issues. Politicians never need apply. They act as if they knew everything, but usually are just clever ignorant idiots with a mouth, a telephone and a pen.

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