{"id":8366,"date":"2015-02-27T14:28:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T14:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8366"},"modified":"2018-11-26T18:01:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T18:01:47","slug":"look-at-global-picture-sen-inhofe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8366","title":{"rendered":"Look at global picture, Sen. Inhofe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>It was just a matter of time before someone would do this.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., brought a snowball to the Senate floor Thursday to <em>prove<\/em>, by golly, that climate change is a hoax.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/234026-sen-inhofe-throws-snowball-to-disprove-climate-change\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/234026-sen-inhofe-throws-snowball-to-disprove-climate-change<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inhofe chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and he also is one of the Senate&#8217;s leading deniers on climate change\/global warming. He just will not tolerate the notion that climate change might be caused by carbon emissions thrown into the air by manmade sources &#8212; you know, coal-fired power plants, oil refineries, petrochemical plants,\u00a0deforestation, motor vehicle\u00a0exhaust &#8230; those kinds of things.<\/p>\n<p>So he pulled a snowball out of a bag and noted how &#8220;unseasonable&#8221; the temperature is outside the Senate chamber, meaning it&#8217;s really <em>cold<\/em> out there.<\/p>\n<p>I just want to remind the senator that conditions outdoors at any particular time doesn&#8217;t prove a single thing about this issue. He knows that, of course, but he refuses to look at the big picture when it might go against whatever point he seeks to make.<\/p>\n<p>My friends on the right keep insisting that climate change is a concoction brewed by leftist influences out to destroy American industry. Scientific data, though, suggest that the planet&#8217;s climate is changing. It&#8217;s getting warmer. The only debating point left is over whether it&#8217;s manmade or part of some ecological cycle that Earth experiences every <em>few million<\/em> years.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever, Chairman Inhofe should cease playing silly snowball games.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s cold in the Texas Tundra, too, Sen. Inhofe. It&#8217;s snowing as I write these words. The temperature is in the low teens.<\/p>\n<p>Is it prudent to use current weather conditions to pass judgment on what science has been tracking over many years? It&#8217;s wiser to look at the really big picture.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was just a matter of time before someone would do this. U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., brought a snowball to the Senate floor Thursday to prove, by golly, that climate change is a hoax. http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/234026-sen-inhofe-throws-snowball-to-disprove-climate-change Inhofe chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and he also is one of the Senate&#8217;s leading deniers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8366\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Look at global picture, Sen. Inhofe<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1027,1028,1927,2478,4204,4668,4980],"class_list":["post-8366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-change-deniers","tag-global-warming","tag-jim-inhofe","tag-senate-environment-and-public-works-committee","tag-texas-panhandle","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33825,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366\/revisions\/33825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}