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Jim Inhofe is a small-plane-flying, global-warming-denying senator. And now he’s got a gavel
Washington Post ^ | 1/08/15 | Ben Terris

Posted on 01/11/2015 2:07:58 PM PST by Libloather

At the end of last year, with most of his colleagues stuck in Washington for an important Senate session on a Saturday, Sen. James M. Inhofe was in Tulsa getting spurs fastened onto a pair of boots.

“They’re ostrich,” said Inhofe (R-Okla.), the country’s most prominent climate-change denier, referring to his footwear. “Probably some endangered species; I have a reputation to maintain.”

Inhofe could have been wearing Birkenstocks and it wouldn’t have put a dent in his notoriety. The senator cemented his status as public enemy No. 1 for environmentalists long ago, topping it off with his 2012 book on climate change, “The Greatest Hoax.” This year he takes over the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee — the panel most associated with climate policy oversight — and says he plans to continue his role as a “one-man truth squad” on the issue.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: cargocultscience; climatechange; globalwarming; inhofe; senator
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To: Libloather

I love Jim Inhofe. A great American.


61 posted on 01/11/2015 3:10:46 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Moonman62
Really? Does he actually deny that the climate changes?

Are you denying that global warming is a hoax?

62 posted on 01/11/2015 3:12:34 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I'm a man of no-color and proud of it.)
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To: Libloather

Occasionally, elections matter greatly.


63 posted on 01/11/2015 3:16:15 PM PST by Elsiejay
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To: amigatec

Weather? In oklahoma? You’re joking. ;-)


64 posted on 01/11/2015 3:17:44 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: ifinnegan

>>Why don’t all the fake conservative leftists Spewing their propaganda here tell us again not to vote for Republicans because there is no difference.<<

b/c they prefer to throw tantrums, eat worms, take their ball and go home and give elections to the extreme left as they did in 2012.


65 posted on 01/11/2015 3:19:06 PM PST by freedumb2003 (AGW: Settled Science? If so, there would only be one model and it would agree with measurements)
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To: Fresh Wind

Is that at the Kentucky lake where cankles and her brother also had houseboats and were not paying the Ky state taxes they owed?

Just another “non-news” story that disappeared the rabbit hole...


66 posted on 01/11/2015 3:19:29 PM PST by snuffy smiff (Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.)
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To: freedumb2003

Remember, they don’t get paid by the *post*, they get paid by the *replies* to their posts, as they well document.


67 posted on 01/11/2015 3:22:01 PM PST by txhurl
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To: Moonman62
Really? Does he actually deny that the climate changes?

You be the judge bro..........

The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future

68 posted on 01/11/2015 3:22:05 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I'm a man of no-color and proud of it.)
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To: Libloather
Jim Inhofe is a small-plane-flying..

For those that do not know or forgot... Jim Inhofe flew a Grumman Tiger to and from DC for years and, on one trip, HIS PROP Partially or totally separated from the plane! He immediately declared an emergency and flew HIS GLIDER to a safe landing at the nearest airport!

I don't know what he flies today...

69 posted on 01/11/2015 3:22:56 PM PST by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: deadrock

I attended a conference last week where there were WH staff in attendance. The subject of climate change came in the context of big data, particularly observational data. The WH staffers could not help themselves but to sneer at those who “deny that the climate is changing”. No member of the panel had the temerity to let them know that they would be hard pressed to find any credible scientist who denies that the climate is changing. Panel members were equally lacking to point out the lack of observational data that indicates human induced climate change.


70 posted on 01/11/2015 3:23:52 PM PST by CheneyClone
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To: txhurl

There’s global proof that climate changes in every textbook that everyone accepts: dinosaurs were here, and now they aren’t, and they didn’t commit suicide.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Thank God (and Greyhound) they are gone!


71 posted on 01/11/2015 3:34:11 PM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: txhurl

That’s right, they were sold into slavery and put on a ship.


72 posted on 01/11/2015 3:47:05 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: txhurl

dinosaurs were here, and now they aren’t, and they didn’t commit suicide. —

They were declared to use too much resources (air, food, and space), and were denied health care by the liberals, resulting in their demise.


73 posted on 01/11/2015 3:53:07 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (/s /s /s /s /s, my replies are "liberally" sprinkled with them behind every word and letter.!)
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To: Scrambler Bob

But the cockroaches survived — that’s where Republicans come from.


74 posted on 01/11/2015 3:54:16 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (/s /s /s /s /s, my replies are "liberally" sprinkled with them behind every word and letter.!)
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To: deadrock

When the globull warmers say “Climate Change” they really mean man caused warming, but they have learned the hard way to never ever to say that again.


75 posted on 01/11/2015 3:59:07 PM PST by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: Paladin2

The one she whined about being revealed on the web

http://www.californiacoastline.org/streisand/lawsuit.html


76 posted on 01/11/2015 4:00:38 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (/s /s /s /s /s, my replies are "liberally" sprinkled with them behind every word and letter.!)
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To: gaijin

Doesn’t his wife own this house ..?? I know he bought her a house a few years ago .. after his flame started going out.

I believe it was her requirement to even stay married to her.

Smart! It’s free and clear from all liens.


77 posted on 01/11/2015 4:14:24 PM PST by CyberAnt ("The hope and changey stuff did not work, even a smidgen.")
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To: Libloather

Senator Inhofe is true presidential material... it is a terrible shame that the way that the game is played will prevent him from being our next president.


78 posted on 01/11/2015 4:22:00 PM PST by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
I believe in global warming. My understanding is at one time North America was covered by one big sheet of ice.Now it’s not. Hurray!

Ha....don't be too quick with the happy talk....

It might happen again.

79 posted on 01/11/2015 4:22:42 PM PST by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: Libloather

Ahhhhh!!!! Onoz! Not a small plane!!! You mean Inhofe actually owns an operates a vehicle that burns petroleum products to move people and stuff from point A to point B, and emits some CO2 and water vapor???? Oh, wait.....never mind


80 posted on 01/11/2015 4:28:06 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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