Comments on: Inhofe: Global warming is still “greatest hoax,” McCain is afraid of environmentalists, and we’re now cooling

By: A Siegel

A Siegel — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:04:59 +0000

I would expect that Jim doesn’t plan to watch Heat (http://www.pbs.org/ wgbh/ pages/ frontline/ heat/ #press)

By: Dano

Dano — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:18:27 +0000

A subset of the population needs the Inhofes of the world.

If he were not there, someone else would fill the vacuum, much like feral cats cr*pping in your flower beds – you can get out the .22, but another one will be there next week. This is why cities with feral cat programs spay the existing ones so they can’t reproduce – the devil you know, so to speak.

Best,

By: Josh Nelson

Josh Nelson — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:36:57 +0000

James Inhofe is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the good people of Oklahoma. Would love to see Andrew Rice come out of nowhere and take that seat.

By: Michael Hoexter

Michael Hoexter — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:19:55 +0000

Actually the “God’s still up there” is key to understanding a vast majority of religiously inspired deniers, including, I’m guessing, Inhofe. They are providentialists, believing that God is in all things. The notion that people can change the world for the worse through GHG emissions is at war with their religiously held beliefs about the natural world…i.e. that God is in control, providing for us. This also contradicts more recent religious doctrine that equates unregulated economic activity stoked by a compliant natural world as “God’s will”.

It is then in many cases not so fruitful just to line up “our facts” vs. “their facts” without considering this set of assumptions behind the denier “their facts”. In fact, if I were involved in arguments with deniers, I would call attention to the religious or philosophical foundations of their preferences for certain findings and facts and their ignorance of other more salient facts.

By: David B. Benson

David B. Benson — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:42:21 +0000

Here are the five year averages of the HadCRUTv3 global surface temperature product:

http://tamino.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/5yrave.jpg

By: David B. Benson

David B. Benson — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:12:12 +0000

According to today’s TNYT, we are most likely to have Senator Inhofe around for another six, long years.

By: rpauli

rpauli — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:44:28 +0000

When does delusional ranting become dangerous speech?

By: max

max — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:38:26 +0000

Who is running against Inhofe and do they have a chance?

By: TomG

TomG — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:24:11 +0000

Do fruitcakes have a “best-before” date?

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:57:21 +0000

“People are afraid of some of the environmentalists out there because they pour all the money into campaigns and, consequently, we have a lot of people who fall in that category, and some of them are Republicans.”

Who are these strange Republicans who are environmentalists? Do you have any donor names? That is so sad, sort of like Log Cabin Republicans: deluded about the party platform.

They will never get environmental policy from McCain, they should have run one of the three or four Republicans who do vote for renewable energy and the environment – like say, Collins, Snowe or Oregan’s Smith. They are the few, the very few Republicans who do tend to vote for clean energy.

Don’t they look at voting records? You would think, if you were a big bucks donor who cared enough to try and influence policy, the least you could do would be to have your personal assisistant staff check the record!