The Swine Flu Double Standard

Talk radio is interesting.

For what seems like years now, conservatives on the radio have been trying to "debunk" global warming claiming that the science is wrong and there are political agendas with climate change, etc.  They claim we don't know what is going to happen because we are talking about planetary climate models and these models possess assumptions.

Yet it what seems to be a very short period of time with regard to the emergence a new H1N1 flu strain that has jumped from pigs to humans and now from human to human -- there are all kinds of calls for government intervention, closing the Mexican border, and calling up the National Guard.

The irony in all of this is that we don't know how this new strain is going to pan out.  It could be a major pandemic that, at worst, kills many people or, at best, it could just be another mild flu strain that will have to evaluated every flu season during flu shot development.  There are many assumptions here, but no conclusive data either way yet.  That is why CDC is sort of in this - be prudent, but don't go Defcon 1 just yet.

So with global warming science -- there are years and years of data and evaluation on the subject and conservatives cry foul.

Now with swine flu -- there is a full court press to politically pile on to the Obama administration for not doing enough.

Ain't politics grand?