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Barbra Streisand: God Help Us! Sen. Inhofe to Head Committee on Environment
2014-12-03 16:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: In a piece published yesterday at Mother Jones, writer David Corn exposes what he calls Inhofes Grand Climate Conspiracy Theory. Inhofe, of course, is Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, author of The Greatest Hoax: How The Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Our Future and soon to be chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Corn tells of an encounter with Inhofe at the 2009 U.N. climate meeting in Copenhagen where Inhofe was a conspicuous presence, acting as a self-proclaimed...
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Inhofe grand climate conspiracy theory: About Barbra Streisand
2014-12-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: The recent news on the front page of the New York Times was stark. As thousands of diplomats were gathering in Lima, Peru, to work on an agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions, scientists and climate-policy experts were warning that it now may be impossible to prevent the temperature of the planet's atmosphere from rising by 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. According to a large body of scientific research, that is the tipping point at which the world will be locked into a near-term future of drought,...
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Watch Sen. Whitehouse, a badass, totally own Sen. Inhofe, climate denier on climate change
2014-08-01 13:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boing Boing: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) totally owns Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) for blocking a resolution that would have formally acknowledged the fact that climate change is real, and that carbon pollution is causing it. Bookmark this video, and paste it whenever you encounter climate change deniers online. "Having had the opportunity to hear those words which I can only describe as being from an alternate reality" will now become my new go-to phrase whenever I need to win an argument on the internet....
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Mike Huckabee, Jim Inhofe Give How-To On Denying Climate Change Without Any Concern For Facts
2013-08-20 03:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The Senate's most prominent climate change skeptic, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), called in to Mike Huckabee's radio show on Monday to discuss conspiracy theories on global warming and the Obama administration's plans to deal with it. In the segment, both Inhofe and Huckabee accuse the Obama administration and Organizing for Action -- the nonprofit created out of the Obama campaign to stump for the president's agenda -- of violating federal law in their push to combat climate change. Inhofe has called...
Googles Science Fellows Challenge the Companys Fund-Raising for Senator Inhofe
2013-08-01 15:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Ten years ago this week, Senator James M. Inhofe, the Republican from Oklahoma, used a two-hour floor speech to launch his campaign on the credibility of climate science pointing to dangers from the unabated release of greenhouse gases. There was a a touch of lawyerly nuance in that speech with Inhofe specifying he was asserting that catastrophic man-made global warming was a hoax. Its one thing to have a political debate about the level of danger posed by the building greenhouse effect. How...
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