Despite the fact that the Senate recently voted 98-1 that climate change is real and not a hoax, Sen. Jim Inhofe, who chairs the Environment and Public Works Committee, was back on the floor mocking the notion of climate change this week. Inhofe voted for the earlier resolution but insists that man is not responsible for the changes. Those pushing for measures to combat climate change bring the overwhelming majority of scientists around the world to such debates as well as dozens of studies. Inhofe brought a snowball.
Inhofe tossed a snowball in the Senate chambers to mock the notion of climate change. He also showed pictures of an igloo his daughter’s family built during the snowstorm five years ago and noted that was the same tie that all “the hysteria on global warming” began. Addressing Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy from Louisiana, Inhofe said “Do you know what this is? It’s a snowball. It’s just from outside here, so it’s very, very cold out, … very unseasonable.” He then said “Mr. President, Catch this” and threw the snowball. Wisely not trusting the coordination of his colleagues, he threw it to a page who caught the snowball with the skill of Ernie Banks.
As we have discussed, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said last month that 2014 was the warmest year on record. However, climate change does not mean that you do not get extremely cold weather. Indeed, you can have wild fluctuations in weather patterns. Many scientists have documents not just colder temperatures over all but such intensifying patterns. It certainly does not mean that you will not get snow in Washington, D.C.
Yet, Inhofe insisted “We hear the perpetual headline that 2014 has been the warmest year on record, but now the script has flipped.
Of course, even before the GOP took over the Senate, there was little action on climate change. If history is any measure, any substantive legislation has about the changes of a snowball in . . . the Senate.
Elaine, they believe the Senator with the snowball. Brilliant.
Inga – I believe that Michael Mann massaged data and is now hiding it or destroyed it. All climate change is based on his data. Assuming his data is fraudulent, the conclusions are fraudulent.
Max,
Multiple videos are merely multiple logical fallacies (appeals to authority).
I could post the same thing in rebuttal.
But they aren’t your thoughts, and don’t refute what’s been posted here opposing it.
You’re just an ass.
Oh my; another heterophobe hating hater.
You Can Believe the Senator With a Snowball or Every Major American Scientific Society
Annie,
Tired and predictably so… it’s lost its humor.
But Mr. Turley is kind enough to let remain his blog as Pogo’s playfield.
Max, yet he attempts to lecture us on civility. Too funny.
Pogo
At least I’m being topical…
… You’re just an ass.
Paul C.
I mis-spoke. I should have written Transphobia…
Now Paul C. Let’s talk intent.
Why was the need to interject transexuality into the conversation?
Why was it necessary to compare transexuals to ‘magical thinking’?
Max-1 – you are not allowed to misspeak on this blog. You are going to hell in a handbasket.
I demand more videos that no one watches.
The sheer volume will convince us all.
“A really scary group of people post here …I’m keeping my distance”
In r/K theory, rabbits exhibit fear and scatter easily.
A really scary group of people post here. Since they may have a transmissible mental illness, I’m keeping my distance.
This is a little funny one…
Hilarious!
Not Rick Astley but one of my favorite videos
(Hope this link works)
I the believers using the term “pause”; it has been adopted and accepted as a valid description without apparent question. Pause implies a resumption. How is it known that the trend will resume – from the same failed models that didn’t predict the “pause”? And if the models didn’t predict the pause because they didn’t account for the ocean oscillations, then what else might they not be accounting for that could lead them to be unreliable predictors of the future?
C’mon Max, you’re just 2 videos short of this hour’s goal.
Even a Rick Astley video would count.
You first Pogo, of the 8 ball ad hominems.
on 1, February 27, 2015 at 3:56 pmMax-1
Interaction of ocean oscillations caused ‘false pause’ in global warming
http://news.psu.edu/story/346448/2015/02/26/research/interaction-ocean-oscillations-caused-false-pause-global-warming
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Paul, obviously you didn’t read THIS.
Inga – I read the psu story when it first came out. Science was a little slippery.
“Because Max, when people have no good argument they attack the opponent personally.”
Define “insight.”
Because Max, when people have no good argument they attack the opponent personally. It’s a common trait, we’ve seen it before many times.