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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGuess Who Will Now Be The Most Powerful Environmental Senator?
Mr. Jim "Climate Change Is A Hoax" Inhofe.
Congratulations, Voters. You Just Made This Climate Denier the Most Powerful Senator on the Environment.
In handing Republicans control of the Senate on Tuesday, Americans effectively voted for the party's hostile plans against President Barack Obamas 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.
In that same speech, he argued that an international body of climate change scientists resembled a Soviet-style trial, in which the facts are predetermined, and ideological purity trumps technical and scientific rigor.
The rest: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120134/climate-change-denier-james-inhofe-lead-environment-committee
Jesus Harold Christ....The Koch Bros and other major polluters must be popping the champagne.
Peacetrain
(22,875 posts)cry.. we have the Fox in Hen house now.. with this character heading up the committee..
jillan
(39,451 posts)Bombs away!
Marr
(20,317 posts)If you lose an election, you employed a losing strategy. If all you do is blame the public for not buying your product, you don't see the problem with your product and should probably let someone else work on it.
As long as the party is run by the Third Way/Center Right faction, it's going to keep on playing a game of 'how little can we get away with doing for you', and it's going to keep on losing. They don't need to leave the party-- their support is still welcome. But they shouldn't be running it.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)I wonder if they'll roll back mixed marriage laws now!!