Inhofe: Global Warming Ppl, "The Third Reich"

[TheArtist]

Remember, the more active the sunspot cycle, the "hotter" the sun is.  We are currently between cycles with low sunspot activity. Boy it sure is hot anyway lol. Looks like the tiniest hint of the new sunspot cycle has appeared and scientists say the next cycle could be a doosey.  So if you think its hot now and you believe its caused by a hotter sun, just wait a few years for the next cycle to get roaring lol.

 Here is an article about the first "Backwards Sunspot" of the season.  http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/15aug_backwards.htm

[Rico]

Looks like Richard Branson missed the comments in this thread that state "There is no such thing as Global Warming"...

Inhoffe will more than likely not be getting any campaign contributions from Virgin...

That's OK... Inhoffe will next attempt to prove there is no such thing as a virgin ...[]

Here is a link to a report regarding Sir Richards
3 Billion Dollar Pledge...



$3 Billion$

[Conan71]

Remember this about Sir Richard: first and foremost he's one of the best self-promoters that ever lived after P.T. Barnum.

Revenue at Virgin Air must have been dropping off and they needed another PR boost.

[Conan71]

Interesting note:  According to an article on the NOAA web site, the average ocean temp went up between 2003 and 2005.  According to NOAA researchers, they still don't know what this means.

Regardless of upward and downward trends, they are still talking fractions of a degree.

[Jammie]

Very interesting thread. I hope to read the rest of it tomorrow. I believe that from 1455-1855, we had a mini ice age and we're just coming out of it and really warming up again. Our glaciers have now melted to where they were 600 years ago. They've found evidence that the Dakotas and well into Canada were once tropical. Does anyone know the history of OK's weather?[]

[TheArtist]

quote:Originally posted by Jammie

Very interesting thread. I hope to read the rest of it tomorrow. I believe that from 1455-1855, we had a mini ice age and we're just coming out of it and really warming up again. Our glaciers have now melted to where they were 600 years ago. They've found evidence that the Dakotas and well into Canada were once tropical. Does anyone know the history of OK's weather?[]

"We" did not have a mini ice age, that was relegated to parts of Europe. It may be that as the planet warms those same parts could see colder weather once again as the gulf current may shift away from that area.

Oklahoma was once tropical with swamps,palms,  ferns, and ocean front property.... Millions of years ago.  Weather patterns do fluctuate.  But baring extreme, isolated, events they dont fluctuate as rapidly as what appears to be occurring.  The earth may indeed be in a natural warming cycle, BUT our adding greenhouse gasses is adding wood to the fire. The real debate is,  How much wood and how fast are we fanning the flames? Are we going to be able to handle those changes?  What effect will they have on where people live and plant crops? Are animals and ecosystems going to be able to adapt and migrate quickly enough? We have set aside areas, parks, reserves etc, but if the climate changes as rapidly as some have suggested it could in the next 150 years, will we be able to relocate them?  and us?  In some areas animals survive in tiny preserved spaces because we have encroached on their habitats and they and the flora they live with cant migrate as easily with the changing weather, weather that may be changing faster than they are able to adapt to.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/09/15/global.warming.sun.reut/index.html

[si_uk_lon_ok]

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

Remember this about Sir Richard: first and foremost he's one of the best self-promoters that ever lived after P.T. Barnum.

Revenue at Virgin Air must have been dropping off and they needed another PR boost.

Virgin Profits Jump

[MichaelC]

From Tulsa World

quote: WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jim Inhofe linked God to weather cycles as he lashed out at the media and others Monday for recklessly promoting what he sees as alarmist warnings against global warming.

"God's still up there, and we still have the cycles every 1,500 years or so," the Oklahoma Republican said in a Senate speech.

"And every time this happens, the alarmists get out there and say we're all going to die."

Inhofe, who views warnings about manmade global warming as a scientific hoax, once again took on the media and the issue during remarks.

This was his eighth floor speech on the topic.

Inhofe addressed more recent developments on the controversial topic and delivered more criticism of former Vice President Al Gore's movie on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth" -- which Inhofe again said he has not seen -- and a television documentary by former NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw.

His harshest broadside, however, was reserved for the media, which he said have alternated between scares on global warming and those on the next ice age.

Media alarmists have been falsely warning of climate disas ters for many decades, he said.

"They don't really care," said Inhofe, who is the chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. "They just want to scare you."

His targets ranged from major networks and national publications to wire services.

"Many in the media have taken it upon themselves to drop all pretense of balance on global warming and instead become committed advocates for the issue," he said.

Once again Inhofe denied specific claims by others such as melting glaciers, endangered polar bears and linking of specific weather events such as recent storms to rising temperatures.

"The media endlessly hypes studies that purportedly show that global warming could increase mosquito populations, malaria, West Nile virus, heat waves and hurricanes, threaten the oceans, damage coral reefs, boost poison ivy growth, damage vineyards and global food crops, to name just a few of the global warming-linked calamities," he said.

"Oddly, according to the media reports, warmer temperatures almost never seem to have any positive effects on planet or animal life or food production."

Borrowing a term from a British group, the senator challenged the media to give up their addiction to "climate porn."

"The American people deserve better -- much better -- from our Fourth Estate," Inhofe said. He predicted, however, that giving up the profits such hysteria produces will not be easy.

Inhofe's views on global warming have earned him internation al attention.

Reporters, he said, sometimes test him.

Pretending to be a media horde, he peppered himself with questions:

"What if you're wrong, Inhofe?"

"What if you're wrong to doubt the dire global warming predictions?"

"Will you be able to live with yourself?"

Inhofe said he had a blunt answer ready for them:

"The history of the modern environmental movement is chock-full of predictions that never came true.

"The more the eco-doomsayers' predictions fail, the more the eco-doomsayers predict."

[BixB]

quote:Originally posted by MichaelC

From Tulsa World

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jim Inhofe linked God to weather cycles as he lashed out at the media and others Monday for recklessly promoting what he sees as alarmist warnings against global warming.

"God's still up there, and we still have the cycles every 1,500 years or so," the Oklahoma Republican said in a Senate speech.

"And every time this happens, the alarmists get out there and say we're all going to die."

Wow, I almost forgot about all the crazy Visigoth doomsayers in the year 503 AD and the even nuttier global-warming pronouncements made by those alarmist Phoenicians in 1012 BC. And how could we overlook that old coot Pharaoh Shepseskaf in 2494 BC babbling on about how much hotter the desert was getting every year?

Good thing that the great historian Jim Inhofe is around to remind us.  Thanks Jim!

[papaspot]

quote:Originally posted by BixB

quote:Originally posted by MichaelC

From Tulsa World

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jim Inhofe linked God to weather cycles as he lashed out at the media and others Monday for recklessly promoting what he sees as alarmist warnings against global warming.

"God's still up there, and we still have the cycles every 1,500 years or so," the Oklahoma Republican said in a Senate speech.

"And every time this happens, the alarmists get out there and say we're all going to die."

Wow, I almost forgot about all the crazy Visigoth doomsayers in the year 503 AD and the even nuttier global-warming pronouncements made by those alarmist Phoenicians in 1012 BC. And how could we overlook that old coot Pharaoh Shepseskaf in 2494 BC babbling on about how much hotter the desert was getting every year?

Good thing that the great historian Jim Inhofe is around to remind us.  Thanks Jim!

I bet y'all also believe that Nostradamus predicted 9/11. [}:)]

[Jammie]

Just wanted to mention that the weather channel will be doing a segment on global warming. I am personally not convinced of it because I feel it's just another cycle the earth goes through. But I do plan on watching the show about it and hope they have something new and interesting on there. As I said, it's on the weather channel and I believe it's on at 4pm CST Sunday afternoon.[]

[rwarn17588]

I think it's just laughable that Inhofe criticizes the science of global warming, then makes "scientific" leaps of logic himself that are so preposterous that it's no wonder people with brains don't him seriously on the issue.

Secondly, even IF global warming doesn't exist, that doesn't mean you should pollute the air and water and waste fuel with impunity. I'm old enough to remember the dirty air and water of the 1970s and have no desire to relive that period.

Do what you can to recycle, conserve energy, etc., etc., simply because it's the RIGHT thing to do.

That's what's being lost here in the arguments, and I'm disappointed that Inhofe at least isn't taking some sort of moral high ground with this. Instead, he seems to be either talking from the dog-eared, tattered GOP playbook, or he's trying to shield a bunch of energy corporations.

[papaspot]

quote:Originally posted by rwarn17588

I think it's just laughable that Inhofe criticizes the science of global warming, then makes "scientific" leaps of logic himself that are so preposterous that it's no wonder people with brains don't him seriously on the issue.

Inhofe is to science what Bozo the Clown was to particle physics. The difference between Inhofe and Bozo is that Bozo was smart enough to keep his mouth shut on the topic of particle physics so we don't really KNOW the depth of his ignorance on the matter.

[alanoftulsa]

Eliminate Dihydrogen Monoxide!

We need people to sign a petition demanding strict control or total elimination of the chemical "dihydrogen monoxide."

And for plenty of good reasons, since:

It can cause excessive sweating and vomiting,
It is a major component in acid rain,
It can cause severe burns in its gaseous state,
Accidental inhalation can kill you,
It contributes to erosion,
It decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes,
It has been found in tumors of terminal cancer patients.

[TheArtist]

quote:Originally posted by rwarn17588

I think it's just laughable that Inhofe criticizes the science of global warming, then makes "scientific" leaps of logic himself that are so preposterous that it's no wonder people with brains don't him seriously on the issue.

Secondly, even IF global warming doesn't exist, that doesn't mean you should pollute the air and water and waste fuel with impunity. I'm old enough to remember the dirty air and water of the 1970s and have no desire to relive that period.

Do what you can to recycle, conserve energy, etc., etc., simply because it's the RIGHT thing to do.

That's what's being lost here in the arguments, and I'm disappointed that Inhofe at least isn't taking some sort of moral high ground with this. Instead, he seems to be either talking from the dog-eared, tattered GOP playbook, or he's trying to shield a bunch of energy corporations.

 Since you remember the 70s you will remember all the ozone, smog pollution etc. that actually act as cooling agents.  Thus scientists when they first started looking at global climate change thinking that if the trend continued the earth could further cool.  Apparently Inhofe remembers what they predicted in the 70s but somehow didnt get the memo that we reduced smog, ozone, cfc's and reversed any potential trend (and hopefully the ozone hole will continue to repair as well).  And that during this time we have been learning more and more about the different factors that can affect global climate change and we have been churning out more and more greenhouse gasses.