Courtesy of The Hill:
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) threw a snowball on the Senate floor Thursday in an effort to disprove what he sees as alarmist conclusions about man-made climate change.
Inhofe, chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, said the snowball was from outside in Washington, which he used to argue against claims that the earth’s temperature is rising due to greenhouse gas emissions.
“In case we have forgotten, because we keep hearing that 2014 has been the warmest year on record, I ask the chair, do you know what this is,” Inhofe said to Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who was presiding over the Senate’s debate, as he removed the snowball from a plastic bag.
“It’s a snowball. And it’s just from outside here. So it’s very, very cold out. Very unseasonable.”
He then warned Cassidy before throwing the snowball at him.
Well hell I guess I stand corrected. I mean who could argue with logic like that?
I will assume that sometime this week Sen. Ted Cruz will show up on the Senate floor with a chimpanzee to disprove the theory of Evolution.
I wish these dimwitted goobers would get it through their idiot skulls that:
ReplyDelete1) Weather is not climate.
2) It is always summer somewhere on the planet. Yes, the summer went away, and snowballs starting falling from the sky. In the US and the rest of the northern hemisphere. It is summer in the southern hemisphere right now and it is plenty damn hot.
Send the memo to Al Gore.
DeleteI don't think they really believe their bullshit on climate change as much as they believe in the money they get from corporations to deny it. It's their dimwitted followers that believe it. It's very sad for our country to have so MANY dimwitted people who vote for them.
DeleteI don't think the Bible, on which Inhofe relies for his information and decisions, mentions snow or snowballs.
ReplyDelete"I will assume that sometime this week Sen. Ted Cruz will show up on the Senate floor with a chimpanzee to disprove the theory of Evolution."
ReplyDeleteFirstly, the chimp would make a better senator and secondly, Cruz makes me question evolution all by himself!
If Cruz shows up anywhere with a chimpanzee my first couple of thoughts would be that 1) he's dating her, or 2) he's showing his mother around the capitol.
DeleteWhy not send Mr. Inhofe a note saying that Alaska could use some of that snow, as the Tour of Anchorage ski even has been canceled?
ReplyDeleteAnd they had to move the start of the Iditarod due to lack of snow and the Iron Dog is on dirt, etc, etc.
DeleteInhofe is just another big energy shill addressing the RW ignorati. He doesn't care about the disaster left for future generations. Sociopaths do what sociopaths do.
ReplyDeleteHell, Nefer, I'd be willing to bet you couldn't convince those fools that the 2 hemispheres are opposite each other in seasons, so you certainly aren't going to educate them about the differences between weather and climate!
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing that so many in congress and the senate are too ignorant to realize what asses they are making of themselves on a daily basis.
ReplyDeleteIt is February. That is winter in Washington DC. Since when is snow "unseasonable"??? Warm weather would be; snow and cold, not so much. Grandstanding idiot!
ReplyDeleteHe has a lot of company. Their world extends as far as they can see and no further. There is no way they would fathom the idea that weather is not climate.
ReplyDeleteThe weather is not climate, but is climate the weather?
DeleteSometimes I think a law should be passed that would that would allow people to slap all voting age Oklahomans across the face and shake our finger at them while we ask them what the hell they were thinking when they keep voting this guy in office.
ReplyDeleteIt is so embarrassing to think that Inhofe chairs the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works. The GOP side of the aisle in both Houses of Congress is filled with imbeciles. I guess no one has tried to explain to Inhofe that the crazy weather this winter has been due, in part, to much warmer ocean water in the Pacific. He's just show up with two snowballs.
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DeleteIs that La Nina or El Nino?
I can never tell one from the other, anon at 1:25 pm. All I know is that the meteorologists on The Weather Channel keep saying that the Pacific is unusually warm and causing the jet stream to rise unusually high. No mention of either La Nina or El Nino. There had been talk just before winter started of a "weak" one or the other; I cannot remember!
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It appears that the adults in the room have the last word.
ReplyDeletehttp://crooksandliars.com/2015/02/senator-whitehouse-rips-senator-snowball
That was excellent.
DeleteOn February 19, the predicted temperature here in Rochester, NY was -7 with a wind chill of -25 to -30. The temperatures for Barrow, AK were predicted to be 12 degrees with a wind chill of -5.
ReplyDeleteWhen western NY is THAT much colder than Barrow, AK (almost 2,000 miles further north), there is something very strange going on with our climate!
You mean weather. Remember from the first comment, weather is not climate.
DeleteNo, actually I meant climate, but I didn't explain myself thoroughly.
DeleteI was reading just the other day that the changes in our climate and overall warming of the earth are causing drastic shifts in the jet stream which is becoming more unstable and wobbly. As the jet stream undulations become more pronounced, it brings much colder or warmer temperatures to places than what we would expect to see in a typical season.
Increased temperatures in the oceans and higher air temperatures mean more moisture in the air. This seems to be leading to more extreme weather events - increased flooding due to more intense and longer lasting rainstorms and more snow in the colder seasons.
Yes, the upside-down temperatures themselves (and the vastly increased quantities of snow many of us are seeing this winter) are all 'weather', but they are caused by long-term shifts in the climate.
The jet stream is having more frequent dips to the south and climatologists are saying that this will be the new normal, leaving the far north enjoying the effects of pacific warming and the midwest and the east coast having more frequent and longer lasting cold. One of the latest east coast cold events was caused by a stream of air from Siberia traveling straight across the North Pole, through Canada and into the Lower 48 states, bypassing the jet stream altogether.
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DeleteExactly. I heard on the news tonight that we just set a new record for the coldest month ever in Rochester, using records that go back to 1830. It broke the record of 12.6 degrees set in 1934 which was the last time Lake Ontario completely froze over. The lake isn't entirely frozen - yet - but we have another week or two of below average temperatures predicted so we might just see it happen again.
We've broken all sorts of records for daily low temperatures, will tie the record for the most days in a single month with temperatures below zero, and we'll have had snow on 27 out of 28 days this month.
We thought last year's polar vortex was an anomaly, but it may just be the new normal for the northeast.
You can't get AIDS from unprotected sex. I had unprotected sex and I don't have AIDS. QED
ReplyDeleteI was watching Alex Wagner and loved her analogy to Inhofe's snowball...She said that's like bringing in a helium balloon and saying you don't believe in gravity.
ReplyDeleteJesus Christ on rollerskates! Every time it snows here in D.C., Inhofe pulls some illogical snow-related prank! Last time, he dragooned his grandchildren into building snowmen, and then called for the cameras!
ReplyDeleteThis has been the coldest and snowiest winter I've seen here in decades, and I say that Jim Inhofe should slip on an icy sidewalk and fracture his jaw.
Antarctica's melting ice is changing the shape of the Earth: Researchers warn area is 'ground zero' for climate change
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For his next trick, he'll shit his pants as a way of disproving evolution.
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