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| US Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) |
US Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) returns as chairman of the US
Senate Environmental Committee for the 114th Congress. A vocal opponent
of climate alarmism, the senior statesman, entering his eighth decade of life
and third decade in Congress, outlined the unsettled science around global
warming, or “climate change”. Leftist
blog Think Progress mocked the newly-installed chairman for
purportedly continuing to deny the obvious.
In light of what Chairman Inhofe recently accomplished, left-leaning
global warming militants may rethink their snide attacks against serious
policymakers, who dispute the seriousness of slightly increasing temperatures
in limited cases around the word. Last week, during the Senate Amendment
process for Senate Bill One, authorization of the Keystone Pipeline, Inhofe the
“climate change denier” joined with polar opposite US Senator Sheldon
Whitehouse (D-RI) to
cosponsor Amendment
29, which read as follows:
of the Senate that climate change is real and not a hoax.
Did the conservative Republican from Oklahoma finally buckle
under the heat and drink the climate change koolaid? Not at all. In what NewsMax
described as “Sen.
Jim Inhofe Outfoxes Dems on Climate Change in Keystone Vote”, the Senator slyly removed the language from the
amendment which identified climate change as a dangerous phenomenon created by
man, and therefore they would have to do something about it.
Inhofe issued the following tweet on his
co-sponsorship:
voting YES on Whitehouse's amdmnt saying climate change is a hoax, bc it is.
I'll address my vote in floor speech soon.
hoax? What’s going on, Senator?
climate is changing. The climate has always changed, and will always be. There
is archeological evidence of that. There’s Biblical evidence of that. There’s
historic evidence of that. It will always change. The hoax is that there are
some people who are so arrogant to think that they are so powerful, that they
can change climate. I ask for my colleagues to vote for the Whitehouse-Inhofe
amendment.
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| Inhofe explains why climate change is a hoax |
voted “Nay”, and Senator Reid was “necessarily absent” following a brutal slip
and fall while jogging on the icy, cold Nevada streets.
and vote. First, he denounced Cap-and-Trade, dressed up as a carbon tax to
protect the environment, but in reality a Wall Street scam which will enrich
the few at the expense of the many, while creating more pollution. He then cited
the Wharton School, which denounced the carbon-reduction program, having
figured that such a tax would cost the average American family $3,000 a year
more in taxes.
Climate Change. He listed the numbers of scientists who called him to challenge
global warming, or climate alarmism, including Richard
Lindzen of MIT. He provided charts documenting long periods of fluctuation
in the global climate. Where Inhofe presented facts, Whitehouse delivers
rhetoric: “Time to Wake Up!” Zzzzz.
smarter in general, and more scientifically researched/well-read than their
illiberal counterparts. Inhofe radiantly provided this point.
Vice President AL Gore), then referenced to the same medium, Time Magazine, followed by the weekly
magazine’s frequent shift of position on climatic, climactic cataclysms: “The
World is Freezing!” followed thirty years later by “The World is Warming Up!” From
the science, to the scientific consensus, to opinions of local climatologists
(including weather forecasters), Inhofe outlined the startling lack of
agreement on the subject of climate change, and particularly whether the United
States should care about it, or pass laws to control it.
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| US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) |
Now, the fact that Inhofe faced the liberal Whitehouse’s
argument head on is commendable. Analyzing this political power play further,
Republicans in Congress, and conservatives in general, can adopt and expand
their game to other issues. Consider the following: Why are we talking about
climate change instead of global warming? The hazy language of the Left has
permitted climate change alarmists to push their reasoned opponents into a
corner. Anyone who says “I don’t believe in climate change” is evidently wrong,
precisely because the climate is changing. Yet liberal politicians looking to
enshrine the bureaucratic dream of carbon control have subverted the terms to
refer to catastrophic global distortions.
restore the words’ proper meaning, and deflate the entire argument. “Of course
I believe in climate change. Why
are you worried about it?” Carry this political logic to abortion. “I
support a woman’s right to choose, and many of them choose to support
reasonable restrictions on abortion.” What about gun control? “I support gun
control. Let’s keep them out of the criminals’ hands!” Equal pay for equal
work? Duh!
the upper hand, Republican
Senate staffers mocked the Democrats for wasting the chamber’s time. The
political climate is changing on climate change, and savvy Senate conservatives
like Inhofe are winning.