Inhofe: ‘Everything’ in Gore’s ’science-fiction movie’ has been refuted.
Inhofe: ‘Everything’ in Gore’s ’science-fiction movie’ has been refuted.
Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), who has compared people who raise awareness about the climate crisis to the Third Reich, lied about former colleague Al Gore on the Senate floor today. He claimed that “everything” in An Inconvenient Truth — Vice President Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary on climate change — has “been refuted many times” by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):
Now Al Gore’s done his movie, almost everything that’s been in his movie, in fact everything has been refuted. And interestingly enough the IPCC on sea levels and other things, scare tactics, used in that science-fiction movie have been totally refuted and been refuted many times by the — by the IPCC.
Watch it:
Of course, the IPCC — which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Gore — has done no such thing. Go to the Wonk Room to read more about Sen. Inhofe’s climate falsehoods.
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It’s kind of fun when the Right becomes unhinged, isn’t it?
If only they didn’t have real power to affect people’s lives… ah well, come november…
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:01 pmInhofe is incurably, unforgiveably stupid.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:01 pmCould he possibly be referring to the television show ‘Futurama’ which is in fact written by a Gore, not Al but his daughter. I just want to view these remarks in the wildest and widest possible context… ’cause if he means ‘Futurama’ this is not only accurate but also hip… if he means ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ it’s not only stupid, it’s scary stupid.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:05 pmThis is the same guy who actually took to the floor of the US Senate, displayed a big picture of his entire extended family, and then said he was “proud” (note the word “proud”) that there had not been a single gay person in his entire family’s history (as if he could possibly know such a thing with certainty; if you were a gay person in Inhofe’s family, would you tell him?) How he could be so sure that there is no such thing as global warming befuddles me, especially when he is listening to some of the very people responsible for making the problem worse and the solution that much further away.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:05 pmI just watched this on NBC Nightly. Not in the affordable range for most people as of yet, but this is awesome!
Aptera’s 300 MPG car
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:07 pmhttp://www.engadget.com/ 2007/ 10/ 10/ apteras-300-mpg-car-available-for-pre-order/
Inhofe keeps looking around, is there even anyone else there?
It would be fun if we could see the snickers and the faces hid behind water glasses as he totters on and on saying nothing….
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:11 pmDoesn’t Inhof realize that global warming and tornadoes have a direct cause and affect?
How the hell he ever got elected in the first place is beyond me. Are the people of Oklahoma that stupid to send him to DC?
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:13 pmDoes that beet-red face run in the family?
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:14 pmI’ve created a thread for posting comments about VP choices and possible Cabinet members. Just a little friendly discussion. Who would Obama choose? And who would run with McBush?
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:14 pmhttp://pennsylvaniaforchange.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 06/ 03/ obamas-has-the-delegates/ #comment-941
There must be emissions trapped in his head. He shouldn’t ignore the signs.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:15 pmMaybe they resent the bureaucrats in DC and decided that inflicting Inhofe on them was the best revenge.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:16 pmMcWars Says:
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Does that beet-red face run in the family?
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June 3rd, 2008 at 8:16 pmNah, That’s the sun burn. See the sun is the real threat here. Luckily belac has a terrific plan coming together on all of this
Stick with your story Jimmy. Every piece of data, since the advent of precise recording, fits very well into one model. In simple terms? The more we burn, the warmer it gets. There is no reasonable dispute of this fact and there hasn’t been any in at least 20 years.
The only people who deny this are those enriched by the energy industry and pseudo religious nutbags who would have been institutionalized at the turn of the last century. I suspect Mr. Inhofe is both.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:19 pmDoesnt Inhofe know that GODs watchers are watching his every fib?
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:21 pmFunny how R-2 demands absolute accuracy in presenting complex scientific theory, yet is content to give Inhofe a pass when he makes a patently false claim, i. e. that “everything (in Gore’s movie) has been refuted.”
R-2, since you obviously did not bother to click on the link that TP generously provided for you, here’s some more complete background on the nine “errors” that a British judge found in the film. (The judge, by the way, found that “Al Gore’s presentation of the causes and likely effects of climate change in the film was broadly accurate”. But your denier friends never get that far, do they?)
http://www.realclimate.org/ index.php/ archives/ 2007/ 10/ convenient-untruths/
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:21 pmhttp://mediamatters.org/items/200710170001
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:22 pmpete:
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:22 pmHave you ever come across any decent criticisms of the Keeling Curve dataset? It isn’t exactly my field but it still seems an iconic bit of work.
Either it’s a sun burn or he got too close to the burn off pipe at a gas well.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:22 pmBTW, An Inconvenient Truth was a freakin movie designed to inspire thought. It was not intended to be “hard science”. Mr. Gore and the makers of the film were well aware of the level of education of their audience, though I doubt they foresaw the rabidness of the low brow hysteria.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:24 pmParry said ‘it could be’ thats hardly a refutation RrOoGgEeRrSs
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:26 pmdbadass Says:
pete:
Have you ever come across any decent criticisms of the Keeling Curve dataset? It isn’t exactly my field but it still seems an iconic bit of work.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:22 pm
That’s a little beyond my depth db. I’m a generalist with atrophied math skills. I must confess to depending on the charts and graphs produced by more agile minds.
Plus I’ve never needed much convincing. I noticed a change in flora and fauna long before the coining of “Global Warming”.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:30 pmHuh?
Laughing at the idiocy of these people is not even fun anymore…
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:30 pmThanks pete:
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:32 pmI would like to include it in my intro unit on scientific processes and thought but want to make sure I have thoroughly vetted it in case I have the spawn of any of the whack jobs present.
You’re welcome db. Sorry I didn’t have any info. If you ever need to draw on 40 years of personal observations of the Upper Mississippi Flyway, plus a few years in other more exotic locales, let me know.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:42 pmInhofe: ‘Everything’ in Gore’s ’science-fiction movie’ has been refuted.»
Meanwhile, “Mars Attacks” has been vindicated.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:46 pmLet’s play a little Slim Whitman and watch Inhofe’s head explode.
Since Gore didn’t make a science fiction movie, but a documentary (different genre), Inhofe’s penchant for out of context ignorance rears it’s ugly head again…
As for Roger’s ignorance, well that’s as well known as Inhofe’s!!! ROTFL!!
What’s really funny is that the most ‘inaccurate’ things about the film, are that it underestimates the global warming effect - based on the most recent research… But science was never a strong suit of flat-earthers like Rogers!! :)
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:47 pmlol
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:49 pmI think Inhofe is on LSD again.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:55 pmAnd just to return the side conversation back to the original topic, my locale has allowed me to directly observe the effects of climate change since I live near the convergence of several zones. In my lifetime, fall migrations and ice-up of lakes are an average of two weeks later. The fall leaf season isn’t later, because the major factor is length of day, but the drop of leaves is more sudden because they haven’t been slowed down by cold weather. Heck, neither I, nor anyone I knew, had seen an opossum before I was twenty. Now they are common enough to have started supplanting the raccoons. No observant person in this part of the world needs much of a math background to see the obvious effects of global warming. But plenty are too stubborn/stupid to take any initiative to change it.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:55 pmI am so embarrassed when Inhofe opens his mouth, because I am a resident of Oklahoma. We know what he is, what he does, and he makes us, as Oklahoma residents, look stupid. I don’t know how he keeps getting back in office….possibly the elite wealthy who he panders to or just “name recognition” which is common in Oklahoma.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:57 pmInhofe’s last wheel just came off.
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:00 pmInhofe - stupid is as stupid does. They don’t come any more stupid then Inhofe.
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:01 pmBTW, An Inconvenient Truth was a freakin movie designed to inspire thought. It was not intended to be “hard science”.
Good point, Pete, and yet the movie does a decent job with the hard science too.
The deniers are pathetic. They can’t refute the science, so they fixate on one person who made one movie, because they need to topple a villian. Even if Gore’s accounting is wildly wrong (and it isn’t), it changes nothing about the hard science.
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:04 pmWARNING: [yet another frickin’] unhinged republican on the loose.
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:08 pm.
Talk about your tinfoil hats. It’s time for your meds, Jimmy.
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:09 pmI sincerely hope jagoffs like Inhofe realize their day is past & done.
Memo to Senator Tired Bitter Old White Guy: Go away. Go far away.
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:26 pmIf I lived in Oklahoma I would hide my head in shame. Inhoff and Coburn, now that is a dynamic duo of stupidity and intolerance.
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:38 pmI wasn’t denigrating the science of Gore’s movie, sorry if I wasn’t clear. But, it does help illustrate the hypocrisy of various anti-science factions. It’s especially satisfying to tie them in knots trying to explain why an Inconvenient Truth is junk science, because it wasn’t peer reviewed (though it is well vetted for a documentary), while extolling “Creation Science” despite it’s lack of peer review and the obvious, outright, lies of it’s proponents.
Nope, show me someone who says “mainstream science” like they are drinking sour milk, I’ll show you an idiot. It’s rarely productive to engage them, but, it can be fun to see what kind of ridiculous responses one can elicit.
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:52 pmInhofe sounds like he’s close to the “assisted living home” stage of his life.
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:55 pmIf Oklahoma re-elects this dunce it’s a sign that America is going to have trouble competing globally in the 21st century world.
It seems to me that one of the things that’s holding America back from moving into the 21st century is dragging all that red state stupidity along with us.
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:57 pmGood thing it’s not a crime to lie on the floor of the House or Senate…but it SHOULD BE!!!
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:06 pmWhat an amazing ignorant buffoon. I am SO sure he got that from Scientific American or any number of respected science publications . . . who of course say exactly the opposite. Republcans are so stupid it is painful.
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:15 pmInhofe has a long time record of complete stupidity and blatant ignorance as his term continues to grind through . . . seems Oklahoma is in a tight competition with Texas to produce the the worst example of stereotypical “Southern Ignorance Goes to Washington” . . . .
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:24 pmThere are times I despair for my wonderful state of Texas. Then I look northwards to Oklahoma and there, in all his glory, is James Inhofe.
And I feel SO much better.
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:32 pmLook up the words — idiot, ass, imbecile, jackass, mooncalf, moron, nincompoop, ninny, simple, simpleton, softhead, tomfool, blockhead, bonehead, booby, cretin, dimwit, dolt, dope, dork, dullard, dunce, fathead, fool, imbecile, jerk, nitwit, stupid, and twit — and in place of a text definition you’ll find this asshat’s picture.
Just saying . . .
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:14 pmJust more crap spewing forth from another OKIE and the REICH…
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:21 pmA Rethuglican is a liar, and Inhofe specifically is an eedjit?!?!? You call that “news?
Cheers,
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:52 pm.
Gore and his Man-Bear-Pig. The politicians on board with this scam must be simply out of their minds.
For one thing, there’s plenty of oil and NG, we just need to drill for it and refine it. Also expand nuclear, wind, hydro, solar and hemp fuel.
Can’t anybody talk some sense into McCain, Bush and Obama about how temperatures rise first, and THEN carbon-dioxide levels rise.
Carbon-dioxide doesn’t cause warming, sun activity does, warming causes CO2 levels to rise.
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
humans’ breath is poison
just one child hurts the world
worse than a jet engine
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
keep people all worked up
about global warming
despite inconvenient facts
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The Great Global Warming Scam Movie
USpace
:)
June 4th, 2008 at 12:07 am.
He is a favorite on the right wing radio in San Diego. I’ve heard him a few times. He is about as non-sensical as they come. I’d be surprised if his science background included the knowledge that the Sun is a star. He is painfully dumb.
June 4th, 2008 at 12:13 amUSpace Says: (deny, deny, deny,…bunch of incoherent blathering garbage…, deny, deny, deny…)
June 4th, 2008 at 12:21 amFrankly I dont find any of absurds absurd statements to be absurd.
A humans breath is not poison to another human,it simply lacks oxygen, yet a person can breath life into another human if they hyperventilate.
One misguided wealthy child of famous parents can lead the world into vast wars which would harm the world in ways a jet engine never could. That it happens time and again is absurd.
God of the universe would have no use of worked up material bodies as its the calm, honest soul that is desirable to maintain that what is.
Global warming is technology without wisdom and though mankind has been warned the problems wisdomless intelligence will bring.
June 4th, 2008 at 12:39 am.
How becoming of a Senator to take the floor and outright LIE!
Typical Loyal Christian(R) Inhofe is… Keeping the Feith.
So Oklahoma, what is this man’s redeeming character that you see, because his character is unbecoming of an American citizen. He doesn’t support and defend YOUR Rights, instead moves to usurp your Rights in FAVORS of doing what the hell and saying what ever he chooses.
OKLAHOMA, does Inhofe speak for you?
Because he just knowingly LIED on the Senate floor in Oklahoma’s name.
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June 4th, 2008 at 12:58 amAnd this guy was chairman on the committee on environment and public works in the US senate for four long excruciating years
June 4th, 2008 at 1:13 amUSpace,
I watched your video and, at best, I have to say it was very unconvincing. I didn’t see any scientific evidence.
I hear a lot “It is just false…” but where were the studies. Where was the evidence that the CO2 levels are not higher than normal. Where are the peer reviewed studies - not the “…number of people that I know of…” Interesting that something that says “this is pure propaganda..” does not provide evidence, only testimony from so called experts.
I am not saying it couldn’t be true, but it sure doesn’t pass the smell test. Sounds much more like propaganda than “An Inconvenient Truth”.
WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE, THE SCIENCE, THE PROOF. I am willing to listen.
June 4th, 2008 at 4:26 amDanCaveman:
There is no evidence, science or proof in the “The Great Global Warming Swindle” so dont bother looking for it
Here’s a good site dealing with most of the halftruths, disinformation and lies in that so called documentary
June 4th, 2008 at 4:39 amhttp://www.durangobill.com/Swindle_Swindle.html
Oh yeah,
USpace, I couldn’t help but notice the criticisms listed in Wikipedia for the Great Global Warming Swindle seem much more severe (and documented), than those in the entry for An Inconvenient Truth.
Besides, all things being equal (and they are not), I would rather error on the side of developing VERY USEFUL renewable energy sources and find out Global Warming was wrong than continue with my head in the sand and destroy the planet — the cost/gain argument seems a little more dire if I choose to believe the half truths presented in “the Swindle”.
Let’s not forget that the security and diplomatic gains of European and Western societies would be much better served with alternative energy.
One more thing - Getting off OIL, Coal, and other fossil fuels is a good idea EVEN IF GLOBAL WARMING WASN’T true. Air Pollution, Water Pollution, scarcity, cost — all reasons in addition to the small problem that we may be destroying the planet.
June 4th, 2008 at 4:48 amthanks galmud 8-)
June 4th, 2008 at 4:49 amgalmud Says:
And this guy was chairman on the committee on environment and public works in the US senate for four long excruciating years
Sure, and in the context of Republican ideaology, he was very good at his job, which was to rape the environment and eliminate public works.
June 4th, 2008 at 8:46 amHis butt must be sore from pulling so many things out of it.
June 4th, 2008 at 8:51 amOh, Gosh, for all you posters who just lambasted all Oklahomans for electing this gas bag Inhofe to go and represent our state, PLEASE, REMEMBER…WE DID NOT ALL VOTE FOR HIM AND WE ARE WORKING TO DEFEAT HIM!
June 4th, 2008 at 10:57 amAnd let none of us forget that In-a-huff is one of the biggest beneficiaries of money from Big Oil! (Not that this has any impact on his continued bashing of science on Climate Change.)
June 4th, 2008 at 1:16 pmThe remarks by Inhofe are typical of remarks made by him each time he speaks. People should be aghast that a person of his inability to assemble logic is a member of the US Senate. He is like a programmed robotic sci-fi character. Who owns him?
June 4th, 2008 at 3:57 pm