Inhofe to EPA Administrator: I really do like you
Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Tulsa, Congress’ leading skeptic of man-made global warming, kicked off his statement today about the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget by telling EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, “I really do like you.”
He also praised her for focusing attention on the huge pollution site in northeastern Oklahoma called Tar Creek.
Then, however, he proceeded to criticize the science of global warming, saying it had been cooked and shouldn’t have been used by the EPA to formulate a rule on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Inhofe’s comments came at a hearing of the Environment and Public Works Committee. Inhofe is the top Republican on the panel.
Inhofe, famous for using the word “hoax” in relation to global warming, used it again today.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., the chairman of the committee, mentioned in her opening statement the igloo built by Inhofe’s family members in Washington during the snow storm of two weeks ago. At the same time the igloo was being built _ and tagged by Inhofe’s grandchildren as Al Gore’s new home _ Brazil was suffering from record heat and Olympics organizers in Vancouver were trucking in snow, Boxer said.
“I don’t claim that any of these events proves or disproves climate change,” Boxer said. She said the proof is in longer range statistics, such as this: the last decade was the hottest on record since records began being kept 130 years ago.
The hearing on the EPA’s budget, which should be a routine annual exercise, is this year a fight over climate change and the agency’s efforts on that front.
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Perhaps “Slade” is the one who is stubbornly ignorant! I know of such research that agrees with what you have said, however I also know if such research that says just the opposite. Also a known fact, is that the earth has a history of making dramatic swings in the climate, naturally without humans ever being around. Senator isn’t saying that global warming isn’t happening, he’s simply saying the doesn’t think it’s not a man made issue. Once upon a time in a land far far away there was this thing called the Ice Age, perhaps you’ve heard of it. And, in case you didn’t know there has been a recent cooling trend. But don’t get me wrong, I think we could all do better with pollution, waste, etc.
Inhofe is a mammoth embarrassment to Oklahoma… just as right wing neo-cons are a mammoth embarrassment to the country.
No one cares a politician’s opinion in a SCIENTIFIC matter. When Inhofe earns a Phd in Science… I’ll THEN be interested in his opinion’s on Scientific matters.
God gives us common sense and intelligence to fight the devil with…
…because THE DEVIL IS A LIAR.
CO2 is released from burning fossil fuels;, its a well established fact. CO2 in higher concentrations traps more heat; its a well established fact. Warmer temperatures create climate change; its a well known fact. There are many other theories and data spawned from these facts that should be heavily debated however, these are irrefutable facts such as gravity and that the earth is round.
I’m sure glad Oklahoma voted in a senator who was 38 years old when he finally received his Bachelors degree; unfortunately he is giving off the impression all Oklahomans are this stubbornly ignorant.