Outgoing Environment and Public Works chairman thinks global warming is a hoax

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http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/17/inhofe-hoax/

 

His argument in a nutshell:

 

1) The globe is not warming, only parts of it are

2) The effect of greenhouse gasses is negligable

3) What warming is occuring (only in the northern hemisphere) is the result of (unnamed) natural forces

4) There is no scientific concensus

5) Global warming is a fabrication of the far left, including "George Soros, the Hollywood elitists," and "the far left environmentalists on the committee that I chair"

 

I felt this was a pretty clear indication of how global warming has been politicized. Is there a need for a basic degree of competency in holding an office where you make policy decisions based on the available scientific evidence? I'm really having trouble seeing how this guy could be more out of touch with present scientific knowledge of global warming.

[ecoli]

I guess it's good that he's outgoing, then.

[swansont]

I'm sure that's what the scientists on the oil companies' payrolls told him to say.

[Pangloss]

I heard his dress shirts don't need collar stiffeners.

 

Somebody get a rope!