Snow-ball Senator explains his actions

[packman]

In his recent book on climate change, which he titles The Greatest Hoax, he assures readers that the scientists -- which he refers to as "alarmists" throughout the book -- can be ignored because a greater Authority has already spoken.
"I take my religion seriously," Inhofe writes. "[T]his is what a lot of alarmists forget: God is still up there, and He promised to maintain the seasons and that cold and heat would never cease as long as the earth remains."

For those still skeptical of his climate change skepticism, Inhofe quotes from the source material, "one of my favorite Bible verses," Genesis 8:22:

As long as the earth remains
There will be springtime and harvest
Cold and heat, winter and summer

Inhofe was asked about this particular piece of Scripture during a radio interview when his book came out. The passage, he said, is so conclusive that it's simply outrageous that scientists continue to address the matter. "

Well, shit, that just makes so much sense. Keep it in mind, this wack-a-doodle is chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, with jurisdiction over the allegedly non-existent climate problem.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/06/jim-inhofe-genesis_n_6815270.html

[haikugal]

1. This is a scandal...

Isn't there some way his ignorance can be challenged and have him removed?

[MANative]

2. My personal opinion is that anyone who relies upon or uses the Bible to...

argue any legal precedent or as foundation for any legal or policy action should be recalled, impeached, or better yet, involuntarily committed.

My brother, a Christian minister and biblical scholar for more than thirty years, calls it "one giant documentation of the game of 'Telephone'."

[world wide wally]

3. OK. So it's going to be summer in Antarctica now?

What would make him think God was talking about his neighborhood anyway?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Genesis 8:22 doesn't prove anything even if you believe it.

"As long as the earth remains
There will be springtime and harvest
Cold and heat, winter and summer."

Great. But that doesn't preclude springtimes where there's a foot of snow, or winters when it's either below zero for three months or it never snows at all, or summers when it either rains all the time or it never rains and never gets below 90F. It says there will be harvests but it doesn't doesn't say there won't ever be lousy harvests because it's too fucking hot and dry to grow a decent crop.

Farkin' idiot.

[jwirr]

5. The context is also important. After the flood God promises Noah that never again will He destroy

all living things - then he says those words that give Imhofe so much confidence. One change the word remains is endures in my Bible. The verse says nothing about what mankind can do to the planet. Since the Bible is not a science book that could mean that all manner of things caused by mankind can occur under those circumstances. It could even mean that we have climate change that gets so bad that those things are affecting most of the planet and most of us are going to die.

Wonder if he will ever be able to see beyond his own ego? His interpretation or nothing?