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Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) just can't get any respect. Nearly a month ago, he went to the climate change conference in Copenhagen to explain that global warming was a "hoax" conceived by the United Nations and spread by the "Hollywood elite." But the European press would have none of it. A German reporter even told the the cowboy boot-wearing senator that he was "ridiculous." Inhofe suffered his latest indignity at the hands of Rolling Stone, which awarded him the 7th spot on its list of the "planet's worst enemies."

Inhofe took this as a slight. "I should have been number one," he told KFAQ radio in Tulsa, "I guess [Warren] Buffet has a lot more money so he went first."

Inhofe also aired his grievances in an interview with the Tulsa World. "My first response was I should have been number 1, not number 7," he said. "I am serious about that. I have spent now literally years on this thing, and it has been a long, involved thing.''

(H/T The Hill)

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January 14, 2010 6:15 PM   

Finally, Inhofe says something that's verifiably true.

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January 14, 2010 9:20 PM    in reply to tiowally

Hear hear!

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January 14, 2010 6:33 PM   

His whole rational to not believing in global warming is because of his relationship with God.

You think Pat Robertson is bad? This guys power as a United State Senator, and his staunch literal interpretation of the Bible, will lead to the deaths of millions of people, due to his objections to any real climate change legislation.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/17/inhofe-hoax/

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January 15, 2010 11:15 AM    in reply to rbeats

I wouldn't call that a literal interpretation of the Bible. If he took it literally, he would realize humanity's role as stewards of the earth and find that he has a responsibility for the well-being of others. He would care about the poor and disadvantaged, the very people who are getting the short end of the stick when it comes to global warming.

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January 18, 2010 11:17 AM    in reply to Volumetric

Maybe it's a literal interpretation of the parts of the Bible he accepts.

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January 14, 2010 7:00 PM   

And he's mighty proud of it

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January 16, 2010 4:24 PM    in reply to jeffgee

He definitely should be #1 but I'm sure he'll work harder to fight this global warming scam.

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January 14, 2010 7:11 PM   

Inhofe is a poster child for the dysfunctional right, unable and unwilling to pull his head out of his ass no matter what.

Inhofe has a lot of supporters among the morons and climate chnage deniers, bu they are a distinct albeit loud minority. My question is how in hell does he manage to keep getting reelected?

How in the world is it possible that the good people of Oklahoma think he represents their values?

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January 14, 2010 7:19 PM    in reply to wellstone

I thought he was the poster boy for inbreeding and/or fetal alcohol syndrome.

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January 15, 2010 4:00 AM    in reply to wellstone

How does he keep getting reelected? Three reasons:

He is wholly owned by oil interests, and that is a very big deal in this state.

He claims to be a Christian, and that is an even bigger deal.

He is truly commited to helping his constituents. Any request for help that he can fill, he fills. He goes the extra mile, he always responds, and he gets things done. This makes a huge impact on rural areas. He could eat a baby live on TV, and people would tell themselves it was OK because it was a librul baby.

It really is depressing. Oklahoma, where the wind goes sweeping through our brains.

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January 15, 2010 9:49 AM    in reply to farnsworth

...and Inhofe is refusing to harvest that wind, because his oily masters might lose another billion in future profits.

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January 16, 2010 4:13 PM    in reply to JEP07

No, it's because Global Warming is a hoax and that's the truth!

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January 16, 2010 4:12 PM    in reply to farnsworth

Sen. Inhofe is a great American. We're proud of what he is doing with this global warming. He calls it for what it it! A complete hoax!

Fewer and fewer people believe in this hoax.

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January 18, 2010 10:46 AM    in reply to jack

Jack, you need to get over your crush, I can promise you that Jim will not return your love, not openly anyway..

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January 15, 2010 5:06 AM    in reply to wellstone

How in the world is it possible that the good people of Oklahoma think he represents their values?
What makes you think he doesn't represent their values? I'm serious - a lot of people genuinely think this way.

I don't know if you heard about the idiotic story about a pre-kindergartener near Dallas who was being kept in detention for violating the school dress code by having a short ponytail, but on the comments on the Dallas Morning News site, >90% said they should suck it up because 1) people need to learn THE RULES, and 2) men with long hair are scumsuckers who will never get anywhere in life. Obviously that's a more petty subject, but when you're starting from that sort of mentality, it leads very easily to Inhofe.

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January 15, 2010 11:34 AM    in reply to midnight rambler

Curious reply considering that Dallas is in Texas and ponytails have little to do with AGW.

It is far more likely that the majority believe that AGW is riding the coat tails of a natural climatological phenomenon, that CO2 has little impact on.

Don't get me wrong, I believe that many Okies are hillbillys and that Inhofe is a POS, but that's because I've met both. I just don't see how ad hominems add to the discussion.

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January 16, 2010 4:09 PM    in reply to wellstone

Because he a great senator and not fall the AGW scam.

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January 14, 2010 9:18 PM   

Read the responses in the Tulsa World article referenced above. Inhofe is the sane one, apparently. Then remember that through the rules of the Senate, these people have super majority rule whenever they're told get indigestion by Limbaugh.

Then pray (or mutter...)

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January 14, 2010 9:39 PM   

The good news: He's old. He'll die sooner than later.

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January 14, 2010 10:08 PM    in reply to Josh

I hope he lives to 150, to see his state turn into a barren desert because of his kind of idiocy.

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January 15, 2010 6:34 AM    in reply to Matt Jones

Have you seen Oklahoma? It's already a barren desert.

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January 15, 2010 11:08 AM    in reply to wetshoes

"Have you seen Oklahoma? It's already a barren desert"

You must be looking at the post armagedon photos. Try Google Earth. Compare Tonopah, NV to Tahlequah, OK.

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January 16, 2010 4:23 PM    in reply to Josh

And he will die now he's helped expose the global warming scam -- the greatest scam ever perpetrated on humanity. What a travesty!

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January 14, 2010 10:24 PM   

The leadership at that assembled at Copenhagen, for the most part care nothing about the environment and somewhat less than nothing about people. For a site that often seems skeptical of authority why is it so difficult to notice that these leaders are often either a part of or supporting the same people who have trashed the environment and oppressed the poor for decades. The cry of "the sky is falling ... the sky is falling" is followed by "give us your money". The proposal to tax globally all combustion (i.e nearly all industry) providing the clear motive for their position. At this point the validity of the data (let alone the analysis of the data) has been rightly called into question, not to mention the epochal cold spell starting around the time of the politicians meeting in Copenhagen.

I am not a republican or democrat, however, even if one were to entirely accept anthropogenic global warming how is a forced global attempt at anthropogenic global cooling either less morally offensive or risky to people and the environment? Unless of course you simply view yourself as morally superior and smarter than those you wish to control in this way.

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January 15, 2010 2:44 AM    in reply to Philip123

"... even if one were to entirely accept anthropogenic global warming how is a forced global attempt at anthropogenic global cooling either less morally offensive or risky to people and the environment?"

If you're standing under the shower scalding yourself because you turned the hot water up too high, it is not morally offensive to turn it down a bit. And it's probably a good idea to try before you're blistered.

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January 15, 2010 12:51 PM    in reply to tamiasmin

Yes, but if you are standing in the shower and someone else turns on the hot & cold water at another location and your shower becomes hotter, then you play a game of adjustment until the two reach equilibrium or one party leaves. And the next time you turn on the shower all is well because no one else is operating the other faucets.

There is more than one factor in global warming, it's not simply a matter of reducing CO2.

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January 14, 2010 11:18 PM   

"I am serious about that. I have spent now literally years on this thing, and it has been a long, involved thing.'' Just exactly, what is this "thing" he has been involved in for so long? I believe, guys like Inhofe have worked tirelessly for years and have won, in the “Climate Change" debate. By Inhofe winning, it’s now too late to turn it around.
Aloha.

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January 15, 2010 2:37 AM   

Just another example of ignorance of someone elected by a dysfunctional state - Oklahoma - a state that is closest to "Homo", perhaps they will have to change their name.

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January 15, 2010 11:19 AM    in reply to vueartist

Ah! The missing link between CO2 and AGW is found and announced!

Oklahoma almost has the word "homo" in it.

If we can just get Oklahoma to change the spelling, AGW will be solved.

Brilliant comment, dude. You must be a closet Okie.

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January 15, 2010 3:07 AM   

We underestimate his villainy. He is a traitor to the future of humans. His efforts to delay, deny and disrupt a healthy response to a real danger - just means that trouble will be coming faster than previously expected. He is dangerously delusional.

The fact that he says these things with the dramatic flair tells me that he knows he his wrong. He is playing with our future.

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January 16, 2010 4:20 PM    in reply to rpauli

The great Sen. Inhofe is protecting American from an obvious global warming scam. No matter how you smear him, the truth of the matter is he sees right through scam.

Fewer and fewer people believe in AGW -- an unproven theory.

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January 15, 2010 6:21 AM   

I'm sure that if you did an X ray of that clown's skull you would see that the wheel still spins, but the gerbil died years ago.

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January 15, 2010 12:32 PM    in reply to Joe

ROFL. Wins the thread.

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January 15, 2010 7:37 AM   

If demented people can occupy positions in government, axiomatically governments can go insane. Inhofe is one example of the evidence for holding that governments are in demented denial.

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January 15, 2010 9:59 AM   

Poor Inhofe. He's seen as incompetent even in being incompetent.

That's pretty difficult to achieve. But it's luck. It's certainly not based on his "abilities." He has a head start, though, just by coming out of Oklahoma. The only other U.S. state that could field such a person would be Mississippi.

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January 15, 2010 4:21 PM    in reply to Richardxx

I'd bet almost anyone from almost any other state could name you one of theirs they consider just as bad for one reason or another. Look at the poor folk from Minnesota who had Norm Coleman before Senator Franken sent him to the bench, or Rep. King(either one IA or NY). Kansas doesn't do too bad in this category with Roberts and Brownback. About the only difference I can see is that most of the others aren't as proud of their ignorance as Inhofe seems to be.

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January 15, 2010 10:20 AM   

Pity the poor people of Oklahoma. This guy cares only about the oil industry and his rich cronies rather than the avergare Joe.

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January 16, 2010 4:29 PM    in reply to duck_tape

He cares about protecting Americans from an obvious scam!

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January 18, 2010 11:24 AM    in reply to duck_tape

He also cares about making it tough for homosexuals in Africa.

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January 15, 2010 10:35 AM   

This man could have been a Nazi death camp commandant. You...to the left...you to the right. Gives me the creeps just looking at him.

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January 15, 2010 11:21 AM   

Hey VUEARTIST! Okla"homo"..really? are we still using that as in insult? what are you a 13 year old boy? To imply that Inhoffe is a "homo" is quite frankly an insult to real "homos"..Saying shit like that makes you just as ignorant as the fuckhead in denial about global warming...grow up

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January 15, 2010 11:55 AM   

Global warming is a sham, Inhofe is right. If a team of scientists were trying as hard to disprove global warming as the current crop of scientists are trying to prove it then nobody would believe global warming is real. At the very least, nobody would believe that human activities are more than about .0001% responsible.

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January 15, 2010 12:11 PM   

"A person who cannot enlighten himself will be quite sure he
can enlighten the world."

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January 15, 2010 2:29 PM   

From 1938 to 2008 (70 yrs), the world population doubled from 3 Billion to 6 Billion! In another 70 years, (unless there are mitigating factors), it will double again ...to 12 Billion! One more 70 year period, there will be an earth-shattering 24 Billion people, (with a commensurate increase of livestock and the needs of agriculture)! Where are all the people, et al, going to get enough water to continue life? Already in the early 2,000's, there have been many areas experiencing droughts. 70% of the World's FRESH WATER, is saved up for mankind, in the Antarctic, by Mother Nature. Sure there is Global Warming, nicely done/orchestrated, by Mother Nature...NOT...Man! For a 23 page analysis/dissertation, and more, just supply me with an E Mail Address!


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January 16, 2010 5:41 AM   

i hope he sees the light. global cooling er greenhouse affect er global warming er climate change er global dimming- is a scientific fact that's a 100% consensus amongst those who agree, and everyone who disagrees are the worst people in the world and don't love their children.
i know global...whatever they wanna call it this year is true because all my favorite papers ignored it while fox news covered it. because glen beck covered it it can't be true. yesterday he said the sky was blue, but it can't be true because he's stupid.
i bet this inhofe guy doesn't believe in all the other facts of pure science that will save the world like ethanol; and cfl bulbs; and swine flu vaccines. we better act fast before y2k causes the planes to fall out of the sky. that's another scientific consensus, and anyone who doesn't believe it is hitler.

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January 16, 2010 4:43 PM   

The truth of the matter is science is not about consensus, it's about the evidence and there's no empirical evidence point to man-induced CO2 as the driving force of climate change because man-induced CO2 can not drive climate change. Gore lied to you. If all world's brilliant scientists with super computer models, billions of tax payers' money spent and 30 yrs. later can not say with certainty that man-induced CO2 is the driving force of climate change, then we have to conclude AGW theory is false and that something else is driving the climate!

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January 16, 2010 4:51 PM   

Keep on the good fight Sen. Inhofe, you're a great man, the truth and science is on your side, you can't be wrong. All they have now is calling you names and they're becoming good at it and they will continue to do so and of course, you already knew that! Majority of the American people are behind you. Keep on exposing this scam, American people are waking up! As you said, "You lost, we won, get a life!" but then again it's not about who's right or wrong, it's about stopping a scam from happening.

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April 26, 2010 10:09 PM   

i hope he sees the light. global cooling er greenhouse affect er global warming er climate change er global dimming- is a scientific fact that's a 100% consensus amongst those who agree, and everyone who disagrees are the worst people in the world and don't love their children.
i know global...whatever they wanna call it this year is true because all my favorite papers ignored it while fox news covered it. because glen beck covered it it can't be true. yesterday he said the sky was blue, but it can't be true because he's stupid.
i bet this inhofe guy doesn't believe in all the other facts of pure science that will save the world like ethanol; and cfl bulbs; and swine flu vaccines. we better act fast before y2k causes the planes to fall out of the sky. that's another scientific consensus, and anyone who doesn't believe it is hitler.

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April 26, 2010 10:11 PM   

How does he keep getting reelected? Three reasons:

He is wholly owned by oil interests, and that is a very big deal in this state.

He claims to be a Christian, and that is an even bigger deal.

He is truly commited to helping his constituents. Any request for help that he can fill, he fills. He goes the extra mile, he always responds, and he gets things done. This makes a huge impact on rural areas. He could eat a baby live on TV, and people would tell themselves it was OK because it was a librul baby.

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