Inhofe: Global Warming Isn't Real: "God's Still Up There"

Think Progress:

On C-Span's Washington Journal this week, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), the godfather of global warming deniers, said that he will travel to the climate change summit in Copenhagen this fall to present "another view." "I think somebody has to be there -- a one-man truth squad," he said. Throughout the program, Inhofe went through his tattered global warming denier claims: that climate change is a "hoax," that CO2 is not a pollutant, and -- latching on to the latest false right-wing talking point -- that clean energy legislation will cost American families $1,700 a year.

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Comments

[deathwobbles]

11:49 PM on 11/17/2009

Lets first of all put aside climate change and look at the millions of hectars of forests being cut down, the oceans polluted, the animals extinct, the famines. Even if global warming is not humans doing (which it is), we are the cause of the constant and continuing destruction of the Earth.

Now with GW. Climate change is not simply an environmental problem, but fundamentally a development problem. There is widespread agreement that climate change has been caused by the past development of todays rich countries. Unless greenhouse gas emissions are cut drastically - mostly in the developed world, but also in those countries in the process of growth and development - the effects of climate change and therefore climate-related poverty will be exacerbated.

In 2009, the global food crisis is likely to add another 100 million people to the list of those living in extreme poverty. But at least you have your SUV's, right?

For those who are sceptics, fighting over your insurance, even though you may not be sick at the moment. You want insurance 'just in case'. Well, lets do everything we can to stem the tide of global warming, just in case.

And if you wont, just be quiet, sit on your couch and let us try. You make me cringe.

[Visvesvaran Subramanian]

01:03 AM on 10/06/2009

Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), the godfather of global warming deniers, said that he will travel to the climate change summit in Copenhagen this fall to present "another view."
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooo...

[research]

04:08 PM on 09/29/2009

And if we replace our oil, coal and nukes energy with rooftop solar and waste biofuels, how could we convince people to go to war for energy? Where would I get my bribes?

Fake christian.

Jesus is a liberal.

Remember charity, healing, tolerance,

Oh wait you never read the words of Jesus have you?

[ReedYoung]

11:31 PM on 09/29/2009

Or maybe he read "You hypocrite!" and thought it was part of the instruction about how to assure one's place in heaven. (really, give everything to the poor and live on charity as a wandering ascetic)

[ReedYoung]

11:34 PM on 09/28/2009

Has anybody heard even a rumor about another Senator or a House Representative going to Copenhagen to represent the sane American delegation?

[soapington]

03:39 PM on 09/27/2009

I don't think this sleazy old reptile believes a word of this nonsense - he just wants other people to believe it. And of course he's being paid a lot of money to say it.

[vgirl1]

02:14 PM on 09/27/2009

That's right Inhofe. And floods, fires, famine, genocide, wars aren't real either because God is still up there.

Has this man learned nothing about Christianity in that God gives man free will and it is up to man to decide how the earth, mankind, animals etc will be treated? That is, man can do the wrong thing and destroy Gods gifts or man can do the right thing and protect them.

Unfortunately, man has proven too often that he is willing to do the wrong thing and destroy God's work.

Get out your bible Inhofe, talk to your Christian leader and get reeducated for real about the relationship between God, mankind and God's wonders.

[emrogers]

02:43 PM on 09/27/2009

Oddly, they call themselves the party of "individual responsibility" but take no accountability. That's a wierd trick...

[ReedYoung]

11:29 PM on 09/28/2009

If you can stomach it, the country would benefit greatly from people with your character reforming the Republican Party. It seems to me that a lot of their voters are sincere -- many of them to a fault -- and I'd rather have them led by a decent Christian like you than a corporate-owned xian like Inhofe.

[MyOwnPerson172]

01:57 PM on 09/27/2009

Global warming is a fact. While some arguments may be made about the cause, a natural cycle or man made, there can be no argument about the results. The ocean level will rise. The mean and extreme temperatures will rise. Storms will become more violent. Weather patterns, amount of rainfall, will shift. Human, other animal life, and plants will die, perhaps whole species.

The question is not whether we are suffering from global warming or, indeed, are its cause or just a contributing factor but what are we going to do about it. Inhofe and his ilk are diverting and begging the question to avoid having to do anything about it as doing anything would probably cost their corporate sources of gravy some money. Spewing trillions of TONS of carbon dioxide into the air annually can't be good but the real challenge will be what to do with the millions of people who can no longer live where they now do and replacing the millions of acres of farmland that will no longer be able to produce crops.

But then again, maybe global warming will be moot. It's not like carbon dioxide is our only pollutant. Has anyone looked at the government allowable pesticides on its definition of organic?

[mtracy9]

01:05 PM on 09/27/2009

This guy is just a complete total su.ck-up to the oil and fossil fuel industry. The religious argument provides him a cover with his clueless Southern constituency.

[SimJack]

01:04 PM on 09/27/2009

You could show this obsequious tool balanced chemical equations that describe the detonation of gunpowder or high explosives and he would say the science isn't there and that the almighty must be responsible for the killing and maiming of tens of thousands of American troops and hundreds of thousands of decent, law abiding Iraqi civilians. Whichever is more convenient and/or paid for by his corporate overlords. They say jump, he begs then to tell him how high.

[getoffmedz]

01:02 PM on 09/27/2009

Jeebus gunna protect y'all.

Not.

[jamie461]

01:01 PM on 09/27/2009

There are many of us who are people of faith who also believe in the good stewardship of God's creation. And that includes minimizing the damage we do to the Earth. I do not understand the supposed theological reasons for people like Inhofe thinking as they do. Perhaps he missed the statement in the Bible where we were told that God gave mankind "dominion over all the earth." That means He left it in our hands to manage it well. Allowing the cumulative effects of global warming to destroy it is NOT supported by theology.

[PDinCA]

02:02 PM on 09/27/2009

The problem is that some people think that reason is the enemy of faith, so the less reasonable they are, the more faithful to god.

[KindOne]

08:36 PM on 11/20/2009

I thought he was just being anti-pagan.

[Markhax]

01:01 PM on 09/27/2009

Judging from the two men it has elected to the Senate, Inhofe and Coburn, I think Oklahoma must be the dumbest state in the nation, edging out South Carolina. It's hard to believe this is the state that elected an intelligent person like Mickey Edwards to the House, where he served until 1993, before going on to teach at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Together Coburn and Inhofe exemplify the decline of the Republican party into a party of ignorant extremists. They should be an embarrassment to any intelligent Oklahoman.

[vgirl1]

02:16 PM on 09/27/2009

Don't forget Arizon and Minnesota.

All these RED states are fighting for top billing as the dumbest of the dumb who chose to be led by the dumb.

[mtracy9]

12:58 PM on 09/27/2009

This guy is just pandering to religious zealots and anti-science scr.ewballs.

[AZterritory]

12:57 PM on 09/27/2009

Let me get this straight . . . g*d is up there in the sky with truth. Obviously we've got global warming down here, Inhofe is here and he's the opposite of truth. That would make all of us living here on Earth in h3ll with Inhofe. Yeah, I think I've got it.

[sheaintsayin]

12:55 PM on 09/27/2009

'A one man truth squad." I do not think this is a dream; I know the republicans are in fact this effed up, but what are we to do to save them? What could us lowly humans possibly do to intercede before they fall off this flat earth? Sometimes we just have to have faith that God's will will be done. Let us pray...