President Obama, speaking on climate-change at Georgetown University on Tuesday, invoked science again and again. But the policies he pushed had less to do with the findings of physics than the wishlists of corporate lobbyists. Still, Obama had the audacity to throw barbs at the “special interests.”

“Science” is a favorite mantra of the Democrats and the Left today. It justifies both executive power grabs and a smug sense of superiority. Those barbaric Republicans oppose our policies only because they’re anti-science, the argument goes. Obama on Tuesday even pegged the opponents of his policies as the “flat-Earth society.” Accusing opponents of denying science is a focus-group-tested, party-approved message of the Democrats these days. It’s the charge they throw at anyone who opposes their regulations and subsidies.