Is It Hot In Here?

He's back and he's bad...he white and he's mad...the good Senator Dustbowl is back with a vengence, Senator Inhofe snaps back at critics of his 9/25/06 speech, dumping a big bucket of hellfire on global warming's parade. He hits the media, he hits the science, he praises that feisty, misguided swath of America that has embraced his non-science...he's well...he's acting like he's the lead blogger in God's army. A couple of quick reality checks, those 60 Canadian scientists Inhofe cites as rejecting global warming are in reality a motley bunch of low end crackpots later refuted by 90 reputable scientist and if my remedial math holds up, 90 is a larger number than 60. There's a ton of info out there on global warming and here's just a few reality based opinions (link):
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - created by the U.N. asserts in its most recent assessment, "IPCC states unequivocally that the consensus of scientific opinion is that Earth's climate is being affected by human activities:

The National Academy of Sciences reports, "Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise" The report explicitly asks whether the IPCC assessment is a fair summary of professional scientific thinking, and answers yes: "The IPCC's conclusion that most of the observed warming of the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations accurately reflects the current thinking of the scientific community on this issue"

A few more: The American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) all have issued statements in recent years concluding that the evidence for human modification of climate is compelling.

I guess Senator Dustbowl would say we are cherry-picking again (I do believe there are no indiginous cherry trees in Oklahoma hmmmm...) but I dare say most of the scientists predicting a growing global warming "problem" are slightly more qualified than oil company hatchetman Inhofe, who espouses that great Oilman credo, "drill first ask questions later". Just a few of the injustices Mr. Inhofe tirelessly battles against: the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, and Superfund legislation. It's unfortunate that our festering political cesspool has created a forum where nasty, eco-hating, little turd like Mr. Inhofe (characterized as one of the "dumbest men in Washington" by Slate) has risen to the top of that steaming coil of poop we call Congress and assumed a position of power on (ironically) an important environmental committee...only in America. For a reallly comprehensive look at this evangelical windbag, his career and politics of fascism, checkout this article by Dr. Steven Best (link) which highlights, among many other things, Heir Inhofe's characterization of the American Humane Society as a front for a terrorist animal rights organization...it only gets better.
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