I share this information below because it’s important to know how the other side thinks. It helps shape our case when debating the issue.
“. . . . That’s why I recently joined in cosponsoring legislation that will increase access to domestic supplies, expand the nation’s refinery capacity, and promote market-based alternatives for our energy future. Importantly, the bill includes key provisions of my legislation designed to improve the permitting process for the expansion of existing and construction of new refineries. . . .”
That’s Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), the former chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and the current ranking member.
He calls global warming “a hoax.”
He said he would attend the Climate Conference in Copenhagen to make sure that the U.S. – specifically John Kerry and Barbara Boxer, the current chair of the committee — does not make commitments he objects to, which is basically any commitment.
From an oped of his: “No matter how many times Gore and others say the science is settled on human-caused global warming, it’s not.”
From an oped of his in The Oklahoman challenging the focus of Earth Day: “Despite spending enormous sums of money on massive advertising campaigns promoting the false notion that man-made greenhouse gases threaten our very existence, the American public remains unconvinced that climate change is a pressing concern . . . . . Therefore, the question must be asked on this, the 39th anniversary of Earth Day: at what expense are we ignoring many of the most pressing issues, environment in particular, to advocate for action on extremely costly policies that will have almost no impact on Earth’s climate?”
From another oped:
“Unfortunately, the Obama administration and the Democrat-controlled Congress seem too narrowly focused on pushing the agenda of the so-called environmental community. That agenda focuses obsessively on global warming and it involves job-killing regulations that would dramatically expand the government’s power, with no impact on climate change.”
From his web site: “Jim has also been a champion for restoring common sense and sound science to important environmental and regulatory issues like clean air mandates, wetlands, and endangered species.”
Other random quotes from him:
“You would think that, instead of considering legislation that would raise the cost of gas at the pump, Congress would have spent its time doing everything in its power to bring down the price at the pump. “
. . . . According to the Energy Information Agency, the average American consumes 500 gallons of gasoline every year and the average vehicle is driven more than 12,000 miles per year. At $4.00 a gallon, people are spending $2000 a year on gas – and those are hard-earned, after-tax dollars. Even so, these national averages don’t tell the whole story. The gasoline price increases resulting from the Boxer Climate Tax Bill would have had a more harmful impact in the nation’s rural areas, like Oklahoma, where people must drive more than in heavily populated states. “
Inhofe, who has been elected three times to the Senate and will likely continue winning as long as he runs (he’s 75 years old), recently issued a U.S. Senate Minority Report titled “More Than 700 (Previously 650) International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims.”
Along with is usual claims, he quotes dozens of scientists with ambiguous credits, like “published over 200 scientific papers” to validate his science.
“So far, real measurements give no ground for concern about a catastrophic future warming.”
“It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.” -
A large number of critical documents submitted at the 1995 U.N. conference in Madrid vanished without a trace. As a result, the discussion was one-sided and heavily biased, and the U.N. declared global warming to be a scientific fact.”
“I am convinced that the current alarm over carbon dioxide is mistaken…Fears about man-made global warming are unwarranted and are not based on good science.”
I just wanted to remind everyone what we are up against. Now let’s get back to work.
