Congraulations, Voters: You Just Made James Inhofe Chair Of The Senate Environment Committee

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In handing Republicans control of the Senate on Tuesday, Americans effectively voted for the party's hostile plans against President Barack Obama’s environmental legacy. Their votes also put the Senate's environment and climate policy into the hands of the worst science-denier in national politics: Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, who is almost certainly the next chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

Inhofe claimed in 2003 that global warming might help humanity. “It's also important to question whether global warming is even a problem for human existence. Thus far no one has seriously demonstrated any scientific proof that increased global temperatures would lead to the catastrophes predicted by alarmists. In fact, it appears that just the opposite is true: that increases in global temperatures may have a beneficial effect on how we live our lives.”

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Inhofe refuted climate change science in 2012 by citing the Bible. “[T]he Genesis 8:22 that I use in there is that ‘as long as the earth remains there will be seed time and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night.’ My point is, God’s still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.”

For anyone still uncertain about where he stands, Inhofe reiterated his position with his 2012 book, The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future.

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http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120134/climate-change-denier-james-inhofe-lead-environment-committee

[atreides1]

1. They don't care

With the Rapture happening soon...why be concerned about a planet that God plans to replace?

[CRH]

2. Emissions pledges and mitigations strategies? ...

I think the little progress that has been made in the last six years, is about to die in committee. EPA? … what was that?

[GliderGuider]

3. Thank the Goddess that pot is becoming more legal. We'll all need it. nt

[Bigmack]

6. Right....I mean CORRECT....as usual, good sir! Ms Bigmack nt

[phantom power]

4. No.

http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/

[FBaggins]

5. Was there a lot less of that type of advertising this time around?

Or perhaps it was just here in NC on the channels I watch.

It seems to me that any time the House/Senate was in danger of changing hands, the majority party would run adds in the endangered areas that would point out who would end up chairing the critical committees if the other side too over.

[Nihil]

7. Tacit agreement between the sides means that no-one wanted to rock the boat.

The Dems want to avoid the blame for allowing their corporate friends trash the world
while the Repubs want to accept the praise for doing the same.

Net result: The world gets fucked and both sets of self-centred corrupt politicians are happy.

The last thing Obama & co wanted is for the common people to realise quite how devastating
such a change of control would be ... it's not as if the environmentalists hadn't already been
chucked under the bus ages ago ...