Posted on 08/03/2007 9:59:23 PM PDT by LdSentinal
CNSNews.com) - Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), told approximately 400 conservative students Thursday morning that despite attempts to silence global warming critics, the ground of the climate change debate is starting to shift their way, giving their views more exposure and effect.
In his speech at the 29th National Conservative Student Conference in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Young America's Foundation, Inhofe accused liberals of trying to silence the dissenting voices.
He then named a host of scientists from around the world who are critical of global warming, including MIT's professor of meteorology Richard Lindzen who calls the fear of man-made global warming "silly."
Referring to the most recent global warming report released by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, EPW Communications Director Marc Morano told Cybercast News Service, "There are 2,000 scientists affiliated with the U.N., and only 52 wrote the last summary for policymakers. Of those 2,000, they include prominent skeptics [of global warming] like Richard Lindzen and Pat Michaels."
Inhofe also referred to a letter 60 prominent scientists sent to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2006, in which they claimed the Kyoto Protocol of the 1990s was a regulatory measure written out of ignorance and which is now unnecessary based on modern scientific discoveries.
After his speech, Inhofe spoke with reporters about his criticism of the Environmental Protection Agency's membership in the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), which reportedly has engaged in blackmail and threats to advance its agenda and silence global warming critics.
Specifically, Inhofe cited an e-mail sent by ACORE President Martin Eckhart to the prominent global warming critic Marlo Lewis, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
In the e-mail, Eckhart vowed to Lewis: "It is my intention to destroy your career as a liar. If you produce one more editorial against climate change, I will launch a campaign against your professional integrity. I will call you a liar and charlatan to the Harvard community of which you and I are members. I will call you out as a man who has been bought by Corporate America."
Inhofe said he has written four letters challenging the EPA, Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture, and Department of Commerce to withdraw their memberships from ACORE.
"With anyone who is threatening like that, something has to be done," said Inhofe. "If you don't have the truth, if you don't have logic, if you don't have science, you call names and you threaten."
EPA Director Stephen Johnson reportedly is looking into the matter, but Inhofe said he does not yet know the extent of Johnson's actions.
Inhofe admitted his stance on global warming is unpopular, even with some in his own party. And he himself used to tow the global warming line until a few years ago, he said, when he began researching the Kyoto Protocol and its potential economic effects.
The $300 billion tax needed to implement the treaty in 1997 would have been the largest tax increase in two decades, Inhofe said.
In his research, Inhofe discovered there were many scientists who criticized the entire premise on which the Kyoto Protocol was based.
"We're going through a warming period," Inhofe said, adding that the Earth's atmosphere is dynamic and has undergone many recorded changes in the past.
He said he has seen too many scientists disagree with the claims that man-induced CO2 emissions are primarily responsible for the phenomenon and that the results are going to be catastrophic.
Inhofe attributed what he calls the "myth" of global warming to an ulterior power-driven motive, described by former European Union Environment Minister Margo Wallstrom. She asserted that "Kyoto is about the economy, about leveling the playing field for big business worldwide," said Inhofe.
Daniel Lashof, science director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's Climate Center, told Cybercast News Service he suspects that quotation was taken out of context.
"That should be a goal of climate policy," Lashof said. "It needs to harness market forces to drive down pollution that causes global warming."
Lashof said he has no doubt there are many scientists who support some of Inhofe's argument about global warming.
But "there are no credible scientists who would support the overall conclusion that Sen. Inhofe is propounding," said Lashof. "He tends to suggest that [climate change] is not about the environment. I think that is a misinterpretation."
Lashof said he suspects Inhofe's harsh criticism of the apparent global warming problem is driven by an aversion to adopting the policies that would be necessary to solve the problem.
I knew things were changing when I started hearing “climate change” more than “global warming”—if it’s hot, it’s bad; if it’s cool, it’s bad. Neat trick!
And the slimey liberals take another blow to their baseless efforts to create crisis and a sham -— to make money. They have become SO USELESS that they must create bogus reasons why they must remain part of our political system....
What “crisis” is next? We will probably have a couple of more between now and November-2008.
bttt
Weather Channel moonbat Heidi Cullen is deeply saddened.
Yep, covers all bases...kinda like jungles became rain forests.
The World has gone crazy.
See, there is no such thing as legitimate disagreement. When will people learn to shut up and do what their betters tell them?
</sarcasm>
It must be faced and fought, and the work falls to Republicans. Placating leftist environmentalism will fail.
Man-caused climate change IS gaudy and easily disproven. For one thing, the timeline of data is the equivalent of averaging the weather of a 24-hour day by analyzing .15 seconds taken randomly. Or less -- I haven't calculated it.
For another geological evidence clearly indicates significant rises and drops in the world sea levels over the past 250,000 years at least. And another -- things are constantly changing violently on this earth, but at a much different pace than ours.
It appears that about every 600,000 years, the Yellowstone caldera pops and covers basically the entire midwest in ash. Scientists monitor the temps and water profiles of the lakes to try to tell what's going on, since it's been about 600,000 years (give or take a few thousand years) since the last time. Next time you see a "global climate change" article in the paper, read it. I never see data that goes any further back than maybe 150,000 years quoted, usually quite a lot less. It's so absurd that it's enough to make a sensible person crazy.
The worst, most evil and despicable part that should raise all our ire, is the frightening of our children. For shame, really, for shame! Innocents being told by nattering ignorant wicked hypocrites (I'm holding back) that polar bears are drowing ... and here's what responsible people do to "stop" it. Leftist environmentalism is rotten to its very core and the people enabling it ought to be ashamed, and we (Republicans) ought to kick their asses!
*whew* I'll calm down. But I do believe that this is a sleeper issue that is as fundamental to party politics in the fight to maintain America's freedom, as the War on Terror, Abortion, Immigration -- every issue except gun control, which is the single most important issue of all.
I'll only disagree with you a little on this. IMHO fighting the "global warming" scam is the most important issue. Everything any animal life form does involves carbon processing. CO2 is the great conveyor of life on earth, without which all forms of life here would be impossible. Thus, regulation of CO2 emissions enables the regulators destructively to control the most minuscule aspect of each person's life. In other words, it's a Stalinist's giga wet dream come true, implemented by an unelected, unappealable international monstrosity created by the virulently anti-American, freedom and prosperity destroying UN. In that sense fighting it is every bit as important as protecting the Second Amendment.
Global Warming ping!
You may very well be right. My very wise and politically astute dad has been preaching the dangers of the environmentalist moveement since the very early 70s.
You may well be right. My very wise and politically astute dad has been preaching the dangers of the environmentalist moveement since the very early 70s.
Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown
New!!: Dr. John Ray's
GREENIE WATCH
Ping me if you find one I've missed.
When the Soviet Union fell the most virulent Stalinists morphed into environmentalists.
Great post!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Thank you!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.