Inhofe called global warming
By on Sep 27th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
Inhofe called global warming
the “most media-hyped environmental issue of all time” in a speech yesterday on the Senate floor. Gristmill writes that Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) “comes off like nothing so much as an assiduous right-wing blogger who’s spent hours in his Cheeto-scattered basement combing the net for every rumor, half-truth, and slander he can find.” Read more about the speech’s inaccuracies here.
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A vote for Chaffee, Snow or any of the other so-called moderate republicans is a vote for Republican control of the congress and Inhofe as chair of the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works. As chairman, he can bring in such global warming “experts” as fiction writer Michael Critchton to testify why global warming isn’t a problem.
September 27th, 2006 at 3:35 pmWhere is Jason Handler to sort this all out for me? Jason must have sported a woody when he listened to this babbling idiot.
September 27th, 2006 at 3:41 pmMedia hyped? Every time I turn on the news or CNN or MSNBC they are constantly saying Global Warming isn’t real, that it is “debated” or they are giving voice to the nutbag critics and people who write dinosaur novels.
September 27th, 2006 at 3:42 pmI take this as a good sign, frankly. I do believe he’s coming across as a foaming-at-the-mouth lunatic, and most people will conclude “I’ve heard just the opposite. This guy is a nutjob”. His antics are a sign of his increasing desperation.
Of course I am excepting the 33% of the populace who always vote for Bush, who will surely hear what he says and conclude “CO2 is not pollution. CO2 is life!”. Idiots.
September 27th, 2006 at 3:46 pmHEY!!!!!
I might sit in my basement blogging all day, but I DONT EAT CHEETO’s!!!
I eat almond joys :)
September 27th, 2006 at 3:53 pmMt. Kilimanjaro has been stripped of its snowcap for the first time in 11,000 years. So how much of Mt. Kilimanjaro’s snowcaps would be stripped if there was no “media hype”?
September 27th, 2006 at 3:53 pmHey…what’s wrong with Cheetos?
September 27th, 2006 at 3:54 pmit’s oklahoma man, what do you expect, someone who graduated from the 12th grade? 9th? the people got what they paid for when they voted him in. hope they have come to understand reason by now
September 27th, 2006 at 4:10 pmAnd as far as the long-term management of radioactive wastes is concerned, we are fundamentally no wiser than we were 30 years ago.
The use of nuclear power is and will remain a global risk, especially for future generations.
Who can today presume to say, or even begin to imagine, what the world will be like in 24,000 years?
This is the half-life period of plutonium-239, which is generated in huge volumes during nuclear fission.
However, what we do know today is that 24,000 years ago Olkiluoto [where Finland is building a new reactor], for example, was buried under around 3,000m of ice.
September 27th, 2006 at 4:10 pm“CO2 is not pollution. CO2 is life!â€. Idiots.
just make ‘em prove their statement — hand the wingnut a plastic bag with instructions to place over head and keep breathing until they don’t… :)
September 27th, 2006 at 4:11 pmGranted, the media is full of hot air much of the time, but they really shouldn’t be blamed for global warming.
September 27th, 2006 at 4:13 pmAmerica’s Least Wanted
In the not-too-distant future, the senator from Okalahoma will be referring to his dust-bowl as just another media-hyped environmental issue at worst and a comma at best….
September 27th, 2006 at 4:23 pmOh, CA Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger solved global warming yesterday when he signed some legislation that does something that is said to help reduce global warming.
We can safely move on to the next issue.
September 27th, 2006 at 4:51 pm#4 That 33%…let’s just not let them decide what global warming is or isn’t!
I have a dream: I hope that come November some of the 90 million adults who never even show up to vote get off their duffs and participate…
September 27th, 2006 at 4:52 pmI really just want to smack Inhofe sometimes.
It makes me wonder whether he KNOWS the truth and only lies for the benefit of Big Oil, etc. or whether he REALLY is that stupid? Either way, stupidity and greed above all else do not belong in our government. Or rather, they should not. I weep for the future.
September 27th, 2006 at 5:10 pmThe other day Drudge had 2 links on top of one another. One headline read:
CLAIM: Earth may be at warmest point in 1 million years…
and
“It’s a big scam.”
Now, read the “scam” article closely. In the beginning someone says that it’s a big scam. Toward the middle they say that scientists often disagree with one another. Ok, so what? Then toward the end of the article they just talk about what each of two scientists thinks and why they disagree.
Ok, where is the scam?
What does anyone have to gain from talking about global warming? I know some people have a lot to lose if people take global warming seriously and do things to change the way we run our economy, but what does the other side stand to gain.
That’s not a rhetorical question. Maybe I’m asking it in the wrong forum. I need to go to a freeper site, but I can never hold a conversation there. (Sometimes it’s difficult here as well.)
Can someone explain what anyone might gain from “fighting global warming?” It can’t be just grant money.
September 27th, 2006 at 7:06 pmCan someone explain what anyone might gain from “fighting global warming?†It can’t be just grant money.
Real estate on the coasts. A habitable planet. No dustbowl in the middle of the country. Fewer sever storms like Katinas.
September 27th, 2006 at 8:50 pmSenator Inhofe included me in his attacks on media alarmism over climate, singling out my new book on the once and future Arctic, THE NORTH POLE WAS HERE, as scary, even though it’s been lauded by such bastions of extremism as the Financial Times and School Library Journal.
September 27th, 2006 at 10:59 pmTo read first chapter for yourself, go here: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/globalwarming
Better yet, buy it for 10.00 on amazon.com!
If this is the most media hyped issue then why are SO MANY mayors in this country signing on to the Kyoto Protocol because they understand the importance of making changes in their cities, in the US and on a global scale?
September 28th, 2006 at 9:02 amImahoe’s at it again?
September 28th, 2006 at 1:52 pm