"It must be very lonely being the last flat-earther."

[Viking12]

It must be very lonely being the last flat-earther.

Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, committed climate-change denier, found himself in just such a position Tuesday morning as the Senate environment committee, on which he is the ranking Republican, took up legislation on global warming. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was in talks with Democrats over a compromise bill -- the traitor! And as Inhofe listened, fellow Republicans on the committee -- turncoats! -- made it clear that they no longer share, if they ever did, Inhofe's view that man-made global warming is the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people."

"Eleven academies in industrialized countries say that climate change is real; humans have caused most of the recent warming," admitted Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.). "If fire chiefs of the same reputation told me my house was about to burn down, I'd buy some fire insurance."

An oil-state senator, David Vitter (R-La), said that he, too, wants to "get us beyond high-carbon fuels" and "focus on conservation, nuclear, natural gas and new technologies like electric cars." And an industrial-state senator, George Voinovich (R-Ohio), acknowledged that climate change "is a serious and complex issue that deserves our full attention."

Then there was poor Inhofe. "The science is more definitive than ever? You keep saying that because you want to believe it so much," he said bitterly. He offered to furnish a list of scientists who once believed in climate change but "who are solidly on the other side right now." The science, he said, "already has shifted" against global-warming theory. "Science is not settled! Everyone knows it's not settled!"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/27/AR2009102702845.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

[phantom power]

1. That man does not disappoint.

You carry that torch, Jim!

:patriot:

[Viking12]

3. It's a very entertaining article.

Sounds like Boxer and Kerry were deliberately and openly mocking Inhofe. Then he repsonds with his lists of made-up 'scientists', too funny :evilgrin:

[louis-t]

2. Solidly on the other side?

How much were they paid?

[Viking12]

4. Not necessarily paid, but certainly NOT scientists who know anything about climate

[Mugweed]

5. Alexander's response is typical Republican thinking

When told that his house is about to burn down, he'll buy fire insurance. Sounds like a typical Republican who would 1) not actually try to figure out why the house is about to burn down and then try to prevent it, and 2) make an attempt to financially profit from the house burning down.