Despite NASA, NCDC, WMO Findings, Inhofe: "Actually, We're In The 3rd Year Of A Cooling Period."

[hatrack]

WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Remember 2010? U.S. and international scientists reckon it tied for the warmest year on record, supporting findings of unequivocal global climate change. Climate skeptics remain unconvinced.

Those who study the climate skeptic position say this raises echoes of scientific controversies of the past, including the debate over the health hazards of tobacco.

In Washington, the most vocal denier of human-caused climate change is U.S. Senator James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican who has repeatedly dismissed the idea as a hoax.

"Actually, right now we're in the third year of a cooling period," Inhofe said in December, before the January release of statistics from the U.S. National Climate Data Center, NASA and the World Meteorological Organization showing 2010 tied for the hottest year since modern record-keeping began in 1880.

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http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFN0826757520110208

[Systematic Chaos]

1. I can't say much about Inhofe at this point...

...that's not completely beyond the pale.

[madokie]

6. And to think up until we started using electronic vote counting machines

you couldn't find a puke in office in the state. Even today very few of our local officials are pukes. Now at the state and federal level though and all we have are the pukies. I think the machines are at fault.

Most local elections won't even have a reptilican file. The race will be decided at the democratic primaries.

[Angry Dragon]

2. When you have the mental capacity of inhofe you do

not need science or facts to back you up

[postulater]

3. There are some people for whom a fact is

the same as an opinion since they have no capacity to tell the difference.

That is why we have schools. He must not have paid attention during the first twelve years.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

4. As Click and Clack would say......

"Non impediti ratione cogitationis conloquium currus" or "Unencumbered by the thought process". All the evidence in the world wouldn't convince this goofball, so why even listen to him?

[abqmufc]

5. Here is a typical Inhofe move...Transportation midnight rider.

All federally recognized Tribes have the ability to create their own water quality standards as well as air quality standards. This is according to the US Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act. In all but Oklahoma, the Tribes gain approval for their standards from the US EPA and States have little to no say in the matter. This is according to US federal Indian law. However, here is what Senator Inhofe did a few years back. TAS = Treatment As a State. WQS = water quality standards.

"Giving tribes no other choice is exactly what happened when the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma gained TAS status and WQS program approval in 2004. Not surprisingly, a lawsuit was filed by the state challenging the EPA’s decision, and Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, Chairman of the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee, requested an investigation into the handling of TAS applications in the state. What came as a surprise, not only to the tribe but also to the EPA and the Governor of Oklahoma, was a midnight rider attached to a transportation bill after the House and Senate had agreed on the bill’s final version. Congress passed the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act of 2005. Tucked away in subtitle B “Other Miscellaneous Provisions” is a short paragraph essentially stating that if Oklahoma gains approval to run state environmental programs, the EPA, on request of the state, must approve administration of the state program in Indian country located within the state “without any further demonstration of authority.” The act also provides that the EPA may treat an Oklahoma tribe as a state only if, in addition to satisfying federal TAS requirements, the tribe and the state enter into a cooperative agreement. Oklahoma must agree to “treatment of the Indian tribe as a State and to jointly plan administer program requirements.”" (page 532-533)

One small paragraph in the midst of 10,000 page legislation stripped all Tribes in Oklahoma of their sovereignty by Inhofe.
The document from which the text is pulled is a great tribal water rights review.
http://www.wmitchell.edu/lawreview/documents/5.Sanders.pdf

[Nihil]

7. How can that be legal?

> ... a midnight rider attached to a transportation bill after the House
> and Senate had agreed on the bill’s final version.

:wtf:

How can you have a legal addition to an agreed final version?

(Please explain in simple terms for a foreigner rather than suggesting I slept
through some sort of civics class that might have covered this?)

[Viking12]

8. Verbal Agreement. Slip in the rider. Hold a Formal Vote.

The formal vote is the legally binding part and votes are cast in ignorance. Dishonest and unethical practice, but all too common in USA politics.

[Nihil]

9. Thanks. (n/t)

:hi: