Posted on 02/27/2015 4:03:27 PM PST by Libloather
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) on Thursday panned Sen. James Inhofe’s (R-Okla.) use of a snowball during a speech on climate change.
Whitehouse used his iPad to argue that a polar vortex was bringing cold air down to Washington in part because of warmer ocean temperatures.
He said that you could either believe “every major American scientific society,” the Navy, NASA, and Pope Francis that climate change is real or “you can believe the senator with the snowball.”
“You can believe NASA and you can believe what their satellites measure on the planet or you can believe the senator with the snowball. The United States Navy takes this very seriously... You can either believe the United States Navy or you can believe the senator with the snowball,” the Rhode Island Democrat said in a speech from the Senate floor.
Inhofe threw the snowball as part of an effort to dismiss climate change. The Oklahoma Republican said the snowball was from outside in Washington, using cold weather to argue against claims that greenhouse gases are behind an increase in the earth’s temperature.
“It’s a snowball. And it’s just from outside here. So it’s very, very cold out. Very unseasonable,” Inhofe said.
Whitehouse suggested that most Americans likely believed in man-made climate change.
“I would submit that if you looked at the American population and you removed the conspiracy theorists… and there are people who simply don't accept a lot of scientific truths… and if you remove the people who have financial ties to the fossil fuel industry… I would be very surprised if you find virtually anybody left that wasn’t prepared to be responsible about climate change,” he said.
How about the earth with the snowball.
Let me know if senator dumbsh...er...Whitehouse would like to talk science with me.
On tv.
Just he and I.
The carnage will be remembered for centuries.
Considering that it came out today that the weather reports from Paraguay for 2014 were adjusted up by one degree Celsius I’ll go with the snowball.
AND, this “science,” such as it is, is only paper thin.
Every see the warmists in their breathless trendmongering bothering to give more than ONE temperature for a spot on the globe?
Yes the air does have a vertical dimension.
“You can believe NASA and you can believe what their satellites measure on the planet or you can believe the senator with the sn”
All due respect to the poor senator invoking NASA, but their satellites have not in fact measured any warming at all.
NASA. Isn’t that an agency designed for the benefit of Muzzies?
I’ll believe the non Democrat.
Me too.
5 years ago those who kneel at the alter of global warming said we would be decimated by an increase in tornadoes because of global warming.
Now with three years of record low numbers for tornadoes they claim it’s because of global warming.
Same with hurricanes.
Suddenly, the old white guy POPE stuck in 2nd century ideas is BELIEVABLE? Talk about your foxhole liberals.
I’ll go with the snowball............
I believe last night’s 13 below temperature.
The Snowball is REAL !!!!!!!
He said that most Americans believe in man-made climate change. That may be true with the intelligence quotient of most Americans who twice voted for Odumbo
Bingo!
Do you believe a snowball or a Marxist Screwball?
Pray America is waking
Pinging that Sun Fact guy!
Solar activity has be very quiet for the past month.
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