Posted on 11/16/2006 11:52:46 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate's most vocal global warming skeptic, James Inhofe, on Thursday dismissed a U.N. meeting on climate change as "a brainwashing session."
Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican who will step down as chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee in January, told a news conference, "The idea that the science (on global warming) is settled is altogether wrong."
A majority of scientists, many in the U.S. government, accept that global warming is spurred by human actions and the emission of greenhouse gases. President George W. Bush said as much in July at a summit of industrialized nations.
Inhofe said he acknowledged that the planet is warming but disputed those who attribute it to human activity and the emission of greenhouse gases. Instead, he blamed climate change on natural cycles.
As an example of U.N. brainwashing at this week's climate change meeting in Nairobi, Inhofe held up a children's book he said was distributed at the gathering, called "Tore and the Town on Thin Ice."
He said the book, the tale of a fictional young Arctic villager who becomes aware of global warming when his dogsled crashes through thinning ice, relies on disputed science.
"This is paid for by the United Nations and it's brainwashing little kids," Inhofe said.
Inhofe did not attend the Nairobi meeting but said some of his staff did.
"What we learned in Nairobi is ... that the real focus has little to do with the fate of the planet and more to do with money -- who has it and who wants it," he said.
Inhofe will be the ranking Republican on the environment committee when the newly elected Democratic majority takes power in January. Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat with long-standing environmental credentials, will chair the committee.
Boxer and two other Democrats wrote a letter to Bush on Wednesday urging him to fight global warming by putting mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions.
EEEGGGADDDSSSS...a Republican that says it like it is....
(looking under table; under stairs; in closets) Is there another Republican that can say it like it is??????
Yer WRONG!!!
Best chance of that is to sew the pie holes shut on ALL dims.
Do her first.
Is Reuters able to back up this majority claim with data? I didn't think so.
I don't know what's in the water in Oklahoma, but more GOP politicians need to drink from it.
"brainwashing session"
Getting a group of people with a common mindset on this stupity is not brainwashing for their religion its just a church meeting.
Mars is warming at about the same rate as earth... Let's send algore to investigate and make a movie.
http://www.mos.org/cst-archive/article/80/9.html
1. Unsubstantiated hogwash. Typical Reuters.
2. Science by polling is not science.
"Long standing environmental credentials" - well we know that she doesn't think there is an environmental impact when she passes gas.
Other than that, I am unaware of her "credentials".
Nancee
Does this mean it will soon be illegal to speak the truth about climate change?
Just amazing.....thanks!
Idiot. Glow-ball warning is observable, has been since the last ice age. The anthropogenic contribution is arguable. The 'fight' is fiction, framed by the MSM conspiracy of ignorance, you fellow-conspirator you.
Either we are equal or we are not. Good people should be armed where they will, with wits and guns. NRA KMA
'Our future is the frog [spread-eagle, laboratory] . . .'
-Russian Nihilist (unnamed here although name could be furnished upon request by serious scientist.
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