http://www.huffingtonpost.com/heather-taylormiesle/inhofe-in-copenhagen-hear_b_397376.htmlHeather Taylor-Miesle
Director of the NRDC Action Fund
Posted: December 18, 2009 02:28 PM
Inhofe in Copenhagen: Hear No Evil, See No Evil, But Speak Lots of It
Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma flew to Denmark to attend the climate talks for three hours. Why did this notorious climate-denier even bother to make the trip? So he could proclaim to the international community that the U.S. Congress would never pass climate legislation. Oh, and that global warming does not exist.
In other words, just as 192 nations are working towards an agreement to address the biggest crisis of our time and help the world's most vulnerable people cope with climate change, Inhofe traveled to Copenhagen to be the voice of isolation, refusal, and doom.
His theatrics would be merely pitiful if they didn't signal a profoundly dangerous position--one that couple put hundreds of thousands of American soldiers in harm's way.
You see, a few weeks ago, Inhofe
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/magazine/29fob-q4-t.html?_r=1">said that calling global warming a threat to national security "is the most ludicrous thing."
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