SENATOR INHOFE ANNOUNCES PUBLIC RELEASE OF “SKEPTIC’S GUIDE TO DEBUNKING GLOBAL WARMING"

[DeepModem Mom]

U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works: SENATOR INHOFE ANNOUNCES PUBLIC RELEASE OF “SKEPTIC’S GUIDE TO DEBUNKING GLOBAL WARMING”
EPW FACT OF THE DAY: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 08, 2006

Washington D.C. - Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the outgoing Chairman of Environment & Public Works Committee, is pleased to announce the public release of the Senate Committee published booklet entitled “A Skeptic’s Guide to Debunking Global Warming Alarmism. Hot & Cold Media Spin Cycle: A Challenge To Journalists who Cover Global Warming.”...

The color glossy 64 page booklet -- previously was only available in hardcopy to the media and policy makers -- includes speeches, graphs, press releases and scientific articles refuting catastrophe climate fears presented by the media, the United Nations, Hollywood and former Vice President turned-foreign-lobbyist Al Gore....

***

The book, which features web links to all supporting documentation, also serves as a handbook to identify the major players in media bias when it comes to poor climate science reporting. The guide presents a reporter’s virtual who’s-who’s of embarrassing and one-sided media coverage, with a focus on such reporters as CBS News “60 Minutes” Scott Pelley, ABC News reporter Bill Blakemore, CNN’s Miles O’Brien, and former NBC Newsman Tom Brokaw.

Senator Inhofe’s “Skeptic’s Guide” also includes hard hitting critiques of the New York Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek, Associated Press, Reuters, the LA Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post.

Senator Inhofe has challenged the media in a series of speeches and hearings to stop the unfounded hype.

“The American people are fed up with the media for promoting the idea that former Vice President Al Gore represents the scientific “consensus” that SUV’s and the modern American way of life have somehow created a 'climate emergency' that only United Nations bureaucrats and wealthy Hollywood liberals can solve,” Senator Inhofe said in October....

http://epw.senate.gov/fact.cfm?party=rep&id=266711

[devilgrrl]

1. Is it written in crayon?

eom

[muriel_volestrangler]

31. Of course not. Exxon Mobil has only the highest production values

and they've been doing this for 20 years now - more like 40, if you count the work the 'independent ' lobbyists did on trying to persuade the public that tobacco was not a health problem.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1875760,00.html

[Irreverend IX]

44. Great news that this is out...

The anti-global warming nuts have broken the sophist's first rule: never make any official statement of your position or platform. Now this thing will be debunked hard from every angle and the anti-GW argument will be eviscerated. In a few years the anti-GWers will be backpedaling from this booklet and pushing different crackpot theories.

[Faryn Balyncd]

49. Appropriately coincides with GOP - - DESTRUCTION - - of - - EPA - - LIBRARIES

EPA Scrubbing Library Website to Make Reports Unavailable - - Agency Sells $40,000 Worth of Furniture and Equipment for $350

Agency Sells $40,000 Worth of Furniture and Equipment for $350

In defiance of Congressional requests to immediately halt closures of library collections, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is purging records from its library websites, making them unavailable to both agency scientists and outside researchers, according to documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). At the same time, EPA is taking steps to prevent the re-opening of its shuttered libraries, including the hurried auctioning off of expensive bookcases, cabinets, microfiche readers and other equipment for less than a penny on the dollar.

In a letter dated November 30, 2006, four incoming House Democratic committee chairs demanded that EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson assure them "that the destruction or disposition of all library holdings immediately ceased upon the Agency's receipt of this letter and that all records of library holdings and dispersed materials are being maintained." On the very next day, December 1st, EPA de-linked thousands of documents from the website for the Office of Prevention, Pollution and Toxic Substances (OPPTS) Library, in EPA's Washington D.C. Headquarters.

......Meanwhile, in what appears to be an effort to limit Congressional options, EPA is taking steps to prevent the re-opening of the several libraries that it has already completely shuttered. In its Chicago office, which formerly hosted one of the largest regional libraries, EPA ordered that all furniture and furnishings (down to the staplers and pencil sharpeners) be sold immediately. Despite an acquisition cost of $40,000 for the furniture and equipment, a woman bought the entire lot for $350. The buyer also estimates that she will re-sell the merchandise for $80,000.

The GOP approach to environmental truth is definitely a two-pronged approach.

[zreosumgame]

52. notice how it focuses on jounalists and not the science?

hell, i wouldn't download that trojan if that defeated moron paid me.

[Hawkeye-X]

2. What, he managed to figure out how to debunk himself?

I'm sure all the critics are going to be busy peeing themselves in laughter on his latest "debunk" of the global warming problem.

What planet is he living in anyway? Uranus?

Hawkeye-X

[Patsy Stone]

3. Please don't worry

He can't hurt you anymore. He's thiiiiis big now.

[InvisibleTouch]

4. A last gasp of denial and desperation? Pathetic. n/t

[DeepModem Mom]

7. Published at taxpayers' -- at our -- expense! And with the imprint of the U.S. government! nt

[Gman]

14. And they don't understand why they don't control Congress anymore

[theHandpuppet]

35. What the hell!!!????

Exactly who sits on this "Environment & Public Works Committee" and was this fishwrap approved by the committee? Outrageous!

[rusty charly]

5. ironic in light of tonight's bill moyers:

"Is God Green?"

A new holy war is growing within the conservative evangelical community, with implications for both the global environment and American politics. For years liberal Christians and others have made protection of the environment a moral commitment. Now a number of conservative evangelicals are joining the fight, arguing that man's stewardship of the planet is a biblical imperative and calling for action to stop global warming.

But they are being met head-on by opposition from their traditional evangelical brethren who adamantly support the Bush administration in downplaying the threat of global warming and other environmental perils. The political stakes are high: Three out of every four white evangelical voters chose George W. Bush in 2004. "Is God Green?" explores how a serious split among conservative evangelicals over the environment and global warming could reshape American politics.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/green/index.html

[Mojambo]

6. Sounds like it's a whole lot of attack the messenger, not the message. n/t

[VenusRising]

8. Skeptics, my backside!!

"Out of 925 recent articles in peer-review scientific journals about global warming, there was no disagreement. Zero." - Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth

They can whine and cry about alarmism, but no one does alarmism better than the GOP. Facts are facts, and any person who has even the smallest interest in the environment believes in the existence of Global Warming.

[stillcool]

Who paid for this color-glossy

64 page pile of horse-shit? The oil companies?

[DeepModem Mom]

12. I'm assuming U.S. taxpayers paid for it? Isn't it a government publication? nt

[Theduckno2]

9. I hope they at least used recyled paper.

That's it Senator, just get rid of the messenger and we won't have to deal with the bad news.

:grr:

[jgraz]

28. Are you kidding? The book's made from old-growth trees and baby seals

Inhofe wanted to use human skin, but he couldn't get funding.

[EFerrari]

10. Wow. This is nuts even for him!

:wow:

[pinto]

11. For cryin' out loud, Inhofe's real beef is with the UN and those "wealthy Hollywood liberals"

not the global warming issue, that's pretty clear:

<snip>

“The American people are fed up with the media for promoting the idea that former Vice President Al Gore represents the scientific “consensus” that SUV’s and the modern American way of life have somehow created a 'climate emergency' that only United Nations bureaucrats and wealthy Hollywood liberals can solve,” Senator Inhofe said in October.

http://epw.senate.gov/fact.cfm?party=rep&id=266711

:eyes:

[Bigmack]

13. What pisses me off....

.. is that assholes like Inhofe NEVER have to own up to the fact that they were wrong, and that their obstinacy cost lives and money.

None of the politicians or pundits who crowed about how easy the war would be have had to eat their words in public.

Inhofe will be dead by the time Oklahoma is ocean-front property, so he won't have to eat his words.

[depakid]

15. It sounds like this guy has OCD

I mean- really, his obsession borders on delusional.

What an embarrassment he must be to rational Oklahomans.

[Teaser]

16. Welcome to obscurity, fucktard.

nt

[rickrok66]

17. Look at the sources

I scanned it quickly and will defitely read through it. However, take a look at the sources. Most of them are local newspapers quoting Imhoff and either supporting his views or reportin on his views. The lion's share of the sources are op-ed pieces. There's really no scientific data here.

It is like a lot of sources that you find in a many conservtive pundit works, especially the ones that come out of Regnery Press. All the sources for a given pundit's book are other right pundits and from conservative putlets like Fox News, The Washington Times, and The New York Post.

[orleans]

18. inhofe is an ASSHOLE! n/t

[0007]

56. ....and....and....that is putting it lightly!

[silverweb]

19. This is gonna be interesting.

I'm looking forward to what the new Chairperson of the Environment & Public Works Committee, my senator, Senator Barbara Boxer, will have to say about this piece of garbage.

Hopefully she'll also find a way to make Inhofe reimburse the taxpayers for his little outgoing snit on paper....

:popcorn:

[truthisfreedom]

20. follow the money, and you'll find out who's really behind this nonsense.

dangerous game big oil is playing with humanity and our planet.

[nam78_two]

21. One of the WORST....Ugh-how much I loathe this man.nt

[Stephanie]

22. does he have any children? grandchildren?

they will curse him in his grave.

[Quantess]

23. The name "Inhofe" will become an embarrassment and badge of shame in 20 years

I predict his great grandchildren will change their last name to something else. They will get tired of people saying "James Inhofe was your grandpa? Isn't that the guy who told everyone global warming isn't real?" ....as a drink gets thrown in their face....

[Ken Burch]

30. "Mom! Billy called me an INHOFE"!

n/t

[foo_bar]

32. or perhaps the name of a great lake

"Shut up and swim, Billy!"

[nodehopper]

24. does this mean my tax dollars paid for this?

if it's senate-published?

[DeepModem Mom]

26. That 's what I'd think. nt

[nodehopper]

27. *seething rage*

to whom do I write a letter about this? I assume writing it to the assclown in question wouldn't matter.

I mean, he is entitled to his crazy opinions, but I don't want my tax dollars paying for it.

[DeepModem Mom]

60. Maybe the new chair of the committee, Barbara Boxer? nt

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

25. any chance OK will vote him out in '08?

if allen can go, surely this guy's not impossible

[Ken Burch]

29. Was this blurb written at taxpayer expense?

n/t

[MGKrebs]

33. So there's a giant conspiracy,

orchestrated by anti-capitalist ex-Communists and Socialists who have infiltrated the environmental movement? The conspiracy includes the thousands of scientists throughout the world over the past 30 years who have conducted the studies, their grad students, their universities, all of their peers who reviewed the work, virtually all of the media, Al Gore, and Tony Blair?

ALL, I mean every bit, of the peer-reviewed scientific data support global warming and most of it a human contribution to it. You can choose to believe that, or, on the other hand, you can choose to believe a few op-ed articles and a giant global conspiracy. Inhofe evidently has chosen the latter.


Credit to Neal Boortz for explaining the conspiracy concept yesterday. Before then, I never quite understood the who/how/or why of all this allegedly false scientific data.

[Vinca]

34. All I know is it's December 9 and I haven't seen snow

in southern New Hampshire. Temperatures to rise into the 40's to near 50 over the next few days. I jokingly say I love global warming. Our climate is more like North Carolina now. Inhofe is a fool.

[WePurrsevere]

42. NNY here & we've only had a dusting & one night of ice that lasted

until the sun came up.

Many folks I know are saying Winter's are not anywhere near what they used to be for snow and cold. Last year was one of the first that many folks can recall where the St. Lawrence Seaway did NOT really freeze over and we only had to have our driveway plowed twice and even that was only like 8 inches of snow.

[sendero]

36. Dear Mr. Inhofe..

... you are not even a very good congressman, much less a scientist. I hope you live long enough to be considered a fool universally, as you are now by a mere majority.

[leftchick]

37. payback for EXXONSECRETS.ORG!

"How Exxonmobil Funds The Climate Change Skeptics"!!!!

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/

A very detailed interactive site showing the idiot Senator Inhofe's sources and funding for his "facts". I imagine he will be paid handsomely by the Oil Giants for all of his dedicated service to them.

[Toots]

38. release of the Senate Committee published booklet

This is a Senate Committee booklet not a personal book. Can you believe the US Senate would approve of such blatant propaganda?

[LynneSin]

39. Well the first lie is the title "Majority Fact of the Day"

As of Friday, the Republicans are no longer in the majority. I'm glad we have Barbara Boxer taking over. She is one of the reasons why I'll tolerate Joe Lieberman just a bit longer - so we can have great gals like Barbara who know the facts about global warming running the environment committee

[The Count]

40. Coming to a discount bin near you...

Only the South Park cartoons still buy this s*

[Canuckistanian]

41. Sounds like Exxon is calling in it's last favor

They've paid good money, now they want their last payback, although a pathetic one.

I'll trust the volumes of solid data and analysis from the world's experts, rather than a 64-page glossy pamphlet from a man who stood to benefit from large oil companies.

[struggle4progress]

61. Of $205K his PAC received in 2005/6, $72K came from the energy sector

The next biggest contributor is $23K from transportation, including trucking and rail. So at least half of his money is coming from fossil fuel providers or gobblers.

See http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/memberprofile.asp?cid=N00005582&cycle=2006&remove=E

[Pachamama]

43. I'd love to see a debate on the topic of Global Climate Change between Inhofe & Al Gore...

And I can't wait in the new session of Congress to see Chairwoman Boxer (my Senator) take down that Asshat about 10 notches....

:hi:

[Junkdrawer]

45. A parting, prostate throttled, shot from Inhofe...

The last roar of the dying dinosaur...

[SlavesandBulldozers]

46. Inhofe is one of the worst.

I despise him. You can just see the aura of evil permeating from him.

[Katzenjammer]

47. And there are still people who think the wealthy elites aren't nuts

It's just like alcoholism, as far as I can see. The greedy bastards will kill everyone including themselves, if we let them, because they can no more give up their wealth and power than a drunk can give up the booze. They dazzle us with their $10,000 suits, Mercedes limos, mansions, skyscrapers, and all the rest...while inside they're just like the poor bastard under the bridge, sucking on the bottle of Thunderbird that's killing him.

[skipos]

48. Reason #6732 to be thankful for the Dem senate majority. nt

[Marie26]

50. And I suppose we're paying for this propaganda.

:grr:

[Rex]

51. Inhofe...bye bye, don't let the door hit you on the way out of committee

you fucking worthless prick. We promise to use the 'report' Exxon-Mobile wrote for you (God knows you don't have the brains to write something) as toilet paper. That makes for good recycling IMO.

[DemoTex]

53. In the 40s and 50s critics of tobacco smoking were often ridiculed.

Tobacco companies hired physicians (or actors playing physicians) to tout the health benefits of smoking. Now the oil companies have hired a bad actor to play a crazy US Senator to shill for their noxious product.

[against all enemies]

54. Maybe Oklahoma will blow away again. They deserve it.

[Nicole]

64. We deserve to be blown away? What an asinine comment!

I didn't vote for Senator Jackass & resent you thinking I should be blown away because some Oklahomans did.

Do you deserve to be shot, bombed or water boarded because some Americans voted for Bush?

Like I said, what an asinine comment for you to make.

[Gregorian]

55. Denial is not just a river any more.

It's hilarious because he's up against EVERY FUCKING SCIENTIST ON EARTH! And you can't spin science. That's why I got a degree in engineering.

He's only doing it so the consumers won't get scared. And because they all know that Gore could very well sweep the nation.


I bet anything he has a pair of flippers and a snorkel in his closet.

[buddysmellgood]

57. Inhofe just put his ass on the tee. FORE!

[Barrett808]

58. Inhofe's last stand: some good discussion over at RealClimate

Inhofe’s last stand
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/12/inhofes-last-stand/#more-379

[IndyOp]

59. Thanks for the link to RealClimate - Great site! (n/t)

:hi:

[Barrett808]

62. Yeah, it eases my pain.

In the words of Homer Simpson.

[WindRavenX]

63. are you fucking kidding me

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:


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