1, 2, 3, 4, 5 GOP Congressmen From Core Drought Areas Say No Link Between Warming, Weather Extremes

[hatrack]

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"I think the science suggests you have to have long-term trends, not one-year droughts,” said Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.), noting his district saw worse conditions in the 1950s and 1980s and “variability in the drought is not unusual."“La Nina is going on,” he added, “and there’s plenty of suggestions there that that’s what’s impacting the weather.”

Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.) also believes current conditions are part of normal volatility. “We’ve got oppressive heat and we’ve broken some records, but there’s a lot of records standing that have been there for a long duration. These things cycle and we’ve been unseasonably wet and we’re cycling into a hot, dry period.”

Other GOP members questioned why environmentalists and others raise concerns about the planet warming during hot spells, but the opposite doesn’t occur during bouts of severe winter weather. “Those same people don’t say that when we have cold weather, like if there’s a cold snap, so they’re not being consistent,” said Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.), whose Colorado Springs-based district saw the most destructive wildfire in state history earlier this summer. “I don’t think we can say which direction the planet is going based on a few events one way or the other.”

In a floor speech last Monday, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said, "Look at the patterns. It gets cold, it gets warmer, it gets colder, gets warmer. God is still up there, and I think it'll continue in the future."

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http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/242239-harsh-weather-doesnt-prove-global-warming-republican-lawmakers-say

[Scuba]

1. No link found between these inbred doucherockets and intelligent life.

I just love typing "inbred doucherocket".

[matt819]

2. But you can bet they and their constituents still accept federal assistance

What hypocrites! But you can also bet they'll claim they built their farms on their very own hard work.

[Teamster Jeff]

3. Sounds like they are whistling through the graveyard nt

[Angry Dragon]

4. I really get pissed when politicians bring god into the equation

[Ezlivin]

5. May God Bless Senator Jim Inhofe

He's doing God's work and selflessly bearing witness to the truth regardless of what the secular scientists say.

With more people like him in leadership this country could effortlessly jump hundreds of years into the glorious past.

[hatrack]

6. Amen, Brother!

Now, where did I leave that hairshirt and whip?

[Frustratedlady]

7. But say they are wrong...we've wasted all this time because of stubborn dolts.

It isn't going to hurt anyone to correct our problems of greed and laziness. It would be refreshing to see everyone working together to solve this problem rather than put up barriers for the wealthy to amass more wealth.

It has always amazed me that the common folk can't see through the Koch brothers and their ilk. It would help to clean out a good percentage of Congress while we're at it.

[madrchsod]

8. hey jimmie...it`s mother earth and she`s PISSED OFF

jimmie you`d better read the passages in the bible where your god said you must be a steward of the land and all things on it.

it would seem to me god is wondering what you are going to about this.....

[phantom power]

9. Jim Inhofe, Juggalo of Congress

fucking patterns, how do they work?

[hatrack]

10. Y'all lyin', and gettin' me pissed

A fucking magnet is an object or material that creates a motherfucking magnetic field and shit. Magnets are miracles and no one knows how they work, though scientists have created many lies to explain the laws of electro-motherfucking-magnetism.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=magnet