Inhofe: Leaked Emails ‘Debunk’ Existence of Global Warming

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Tuesday, December 08, 2009 at 12:33 pm

A lively exchange last night between environmentalist Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and leading climate change denier Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), culminating in Inhofe’s claim that recently leaked emails from climate scientists prove what he’s said all along: that global warming is a myth.

“Now we see that that science has been pretty well debunked,” Inhofe told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

And not only that, said the Oklahoma Republican, but the “Climategate” scandal also undermines (1) the EPA’s finding that greenhouse emissions are a public-health hazard, and (2) the need for Congress to pass a climate change bill.

You can’t play this one down. This is a huge, huge deal. The fact that they are going into an endangerment finding using this as that science, that makes it that much worse. It’s a recognition that we have won and they have lost in terms of a legislative cure for this.

Your bill is dead. It’s not going to go anywhere. The [Barbara] Boxer bill is dead and for that reason, in order to save face at the big meeting that’s watching this right now in Copenhagen they had to come up with an endangerment finding.

Markey had other ideas, pointing out the broad scientific consensus that human behavior is affecting global temperatures.

The National Academy of Sciences of every country in the world has endorsed these findings. It’s not just the United States. It’s not just the British. It’s every country in the world.

Still, Inhofe is right on at least one count: Climate change legislation in Congress is going nowhere fast.

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12 Comments

lyliataylor
Comment posted December 8, 2009 @ 12:50 pm

Senator Inhofe has courage and smarts.
Stick to your guns, Senator! We're behind you.


Buffoon
Comment posted December 8, 2009 @ 2:00 pm

So am I to believe that none on the left are starting to at least question the ingredients for the climate cult salad they've been fed?

Really?


strangely_enough
Comment posted December 8, 2009 @ 2:11 pm

This was from the floor on the Senate:

“One of the reason I believe the spiritual door was opened for an attack against the United States of America is that the policy of our government has been to ask the Israelis, and demand it with pressure, not to retaliate in a significant way against the terrorist strikes that have been launched against them.”

Got to love this one:

“The whole idea of weapons of mass destruction was never the issue, yet they keep trying to bring this up,” Inhofe said.
[...]
Pressed for an explanation, Inhofe said weapons of mass destruction were “incidental” to the decision to invade Iraq.
“The media made that the issue because they knew Saddam Hussein had used weapons of mass destruction.”

Yeah, that's real courageous and smart…
Inhofe- making Oklahomans look crazier than even Coburn does.


strangely_enough
Comment posted December 8, 2009 @ 2:13 pm

Yeah, all those disappearing glaciers and ice sheets are caused by global cooling…


Buffoon
Comment posted December 8, 2009 @ 2:22 pm

You have to admit for every activist scientist that trumpets melting this, that and the other, you can find a counter-part to dispute it. Right?

Any slight changes in climate are simply the result of the earth being the earth. Being a right winger, I mock the religious rights attempts at demonzing marijuana, its stupid. Can't you open up a bit and understand that this climate thing isn't stupid, its downright criminal.

In the end, we all pay while the Obama's and Gores rule over us as dictators.


Name
Comment posted December 8, 2009 @ 3:46 pm

The glaciers started melting long before sports cars and SUVs.

Even if the temperature were FALLING the glaciers could still be melting.

Try this little science experiment at home:
1. Put an ice cube on your kitchen table.
2. Slowly lower the temperature in your kitchen by 1 degree every 10 minutes.
3. Watch the ice cube melt.

See how that works? Falling temperatures AND melting ice!


Dan Pangburn
Comment posted December 8, 2009 @ 8:55 pm

A simple, science based EXCEL model has been derived that accurately (sd = 0.064) predicts all average global temperatues since 1895. The model did not need any consideration whatsoever of changes to atmospheric carbon dioxide or any other ghg.

A descriptin of the model and its development along with an eye-opening graph that shows measured and predicted average global temperatures are in the pdf dated Oct 16 at climaterealists.com/index.php?tid=145&linkbox=true


benatmediacurves1
Comment posted December 9, 2009 @ 4:56 pm

MediaCurves.com conducted a study among 314 Americans viewing a news clip on the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Results found that the majority (72%) indicated that the United States should increase its efforts to prevent and prepare for climate change. After viewing the video, support for the statement that there is scientific evidence that the average temperature on the earth has been rising over the past few decades rose from 60% to 68% among viewers. More in depth results can be seen at:
http://www.mediacurves.com/Politics/J7672-Clima… Thanks,
Ben


lyliataylor
Comment posted December 10, 2009 @ 3:06 am

Well, I guess it looks crazy to you if you don't like Israel very much and if you feel uncomfortable about our toppling Saddam.

Personally, I love Israel, and I (like most people these days) see that we succeeded in Iraq.

Like I said, the man is courageous and smart.


Doc3
Comment posted December 10, 2009 @ 4:20 pm

Cap and tax is a scam and away for more government takeover of our lives. Many of the idiots pushing this will be run out of office in 2010 and 2012. Climategate is going to put an end to this. The taxes and cost of this non-sense when the public becomes start getting the tab will not be pretty. If a treaty is somehow crammed through and we start sending billions of dollars a year to third world countries why our economy and jobs circle the drain could be the last straw for the taxpayers. Criminal investigations need to be started about this scam and who was involved in our government:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/greenhou…


Doc3
Comment posted December 10, 2009 @ 9:20 pm

Cap and tax is a scam and away for more government takeover of our lives. Many of the idiots pushing this will be run out of office in 2010 and 2012. Climategate will put an end to this. The taxes and cost of this non-sense when the public gets the tab will not be pretty. Anything done by the EPA can be stopped next year by cutting funding after the democrats lose the House.

If a treaty is somehow crammed through and we start sending billions of dollars a year to third world countries while our economy and jobs circle the drain could be the last straw for the taxpayers.

Criminal investigations need to be started about this scam and who was involved in our government. People need to go to jail starting with Gore:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/greenhou…


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