Inhofe: Still a skeptic on Global warming

[nam78_two]

:eyes:

We don't need no stinkin' science....


http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/10/11/MNGEJLMT8A1.DTL

Senator fights the tide, calls warming by humans a hoax
Zachary Coile, Chronicle Washington Bureau

Wednesday, October 11, 2006
(10-11) 04:00 PDT Washington -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says the debate whether humans are changing the climate is over. Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, says the science linking human activity to global warming is overwhelming.

President Bush recently called global warming "a serious problem." He said there is still uncertainty over how much of the warming is natural and how much man-made, but he added that it was time to "get beyond the debate" and deploy new technologies to curb greenhouse gases.

But in the U.S. Senate, one prominent lawmaker isn't buying it.

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., has argued repeatedly that the idea that humans are warming the climate is a hoax. In a speech on the Senate floor last month, he declared that the "greatest climate threat we face may be coming from alarmist computer models."

"We're going through a warming period. No one's denying that," Inhofe said on CNN last week. "The question is, is it due to man-made gases? And it's not."

Inhofe, who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has emerged in recent years as America's most outspoken skeptic of global warming. He's not the only lawmaker to raise questions about climate change, but he's the most forceful in questioning the science and opposing legislation to limit greenhouse gases.

To his critics, Inhofe's views make him a charter member of the Flat Earth Society. They say his assertions are contradicted by ice core samples and other evidence showing a link between the increased burning of fossil fuels, growing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and rising temperatures. Some scientists share Inhofe's skepticism, but the majority of climate researchers have rejected his views.

Even some of his Republican colleagues in Congress say Inhofe's views on global warming are wrong.

[AndyA]

1. I am so proud to have James Inhofe as my Senator. NOT!

The man is a joke. He's done NOTHING for Oklahoma, and the idiots here just keep voting him back into office.

Oh well, I'm doing my part to piss off the religious reicht.

[nam78_two]

3. ugh...sympathies...Frist will soon be my senator :( /nt

[Tanuki]

9. Moving to Tennessee? Welcome, but Frist is not running again

so he will NOT be anyone's senator after January. Help us send Harold Ford to the senate to replace him!:hi:

[nam78_two]

11. Hey

:hi:

Well thats good news...I got that mixed up then...I thought Ford was going for the other seat.

[otohara]

4. I Feel Your Pain

I have Allard and Salazar, and while Salazar calls himself a democrat, he...well let's just say he's another Lieberman.

[Burma Jones]

5. Well, keep your chin up

and thanks for representing where it's kinda discouraging to do so......

[SDDEM06]

2. Also: The world is 6000 years old and the sun revolves around it.

[nam78_two]

6. Yep and the only global warming taking place

is the warming of hearts around the world from James Inhofe's kindness and charity :)!

[Ezlivin]

7. Bullshit! The earth is flat!

Just look outside. Does the damned earth look round to you?

:eyes:

[robertpaulsen]

8. This piece is an excellent refutation of Inhofe.

Not that refuting this moranic (yes, sp err intentional) Flat Earther is a difficult chore, but just in case you want something at your fingertips:

Inhofe's speech and right-wing global warming myths
Posted by David Roberts at 5:12 PM on 25 Sep 2006
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Today, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) took to the Senate floor to give what was billed as a "major speech" on climate change. (Full transcript here.)

Inhofe is, of course, famous for being one of the Last True Skeptics, resolutely resistant to the idea that global warming is real, much less dangerous. It is, he says, the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." He's an implacable foe of any energy legislation that doesn't begin and end with drilling. (His latest gambit was an attempt to punish California for its recent climate legislation.)

He's also, as it happens, a budding media critic. His office at the Senate Environment Committee has taken to publicly attacking journalists who fail to demonstrate sufficient balance (a mix of truth and falsehood) and objectivity (refusal to distinguish between them).

Now, some might find nefarious motives for Inhofe's skepticism, and no doubt his indebtedness to the oil and gas industry plays some role, but veteran Inhofe-watchers realize that on this issue, he is a True Believer. Whether that is more or less scary than simple corruption I leave to the reader.

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/9/25/17124/9789

[nam78_two]

12. Thanks

I think remember seeing that on Grist-its good bit. Bookmarked :)!

[oldboy101]

10. Inhofe also is a champion of making English the official language

of America, and no longer providing any Spanish language instructions or help to any of the many recently arrived newcomers. He figures they need to immediately absorb English and abandon Spanish or any other language he does not understand.

Inhofe is truly a provincial dunce and needs to be voted out of the Senate so he can return to Oklahoma and no longer embarass himself and his state to the larger audience of the nation. Unfortunately he is not up for re-election this time so we will have to put up with him for awhile yet. Leave it to the Republicans to put him in charge of the Environmental Committee! Perhaps they figure he can do less damage there than on some more important committees?

[Bandit]

13. Isn't there an Outrage he can be Outraged over?

:shrug: His days are numbered...