Climate change denier James Inhofe is set to become the head of the Senate Environment and Public Wo
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[url]http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/06/climate-denier-jim-inhofe-in-line-for-senates-top-environmental-job[/url]
[QUOTE]The Senate’s top environmental job is set to fall to Jim Inhofe, one of the biggest names in US climate denial, but campaigners say Barack Obama will fight to protect his global warming agenda.
Oklahoma Republican Inhofe has been denying the science behind climate change for 20 years – long before it became a cause for the conservative tea party wing. Following midterm elections which saw the Republicans take control of the senate, he is now expected to become the chairman of the senate environment and public works committee.
However, advocates believe Obama will work to protect his signature power plant rules from Republican attacks, and to live up to his earlier commitments to a global deal on fight climate change.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Inhofe is one of the loudest climate deniers in the senate, as evidenced by his book The Greatest Hoax: How The Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future and many other public and written statements. If Inhofe gains control of the Senate committee in charge of climate change legislation, that’s probably the end of climate change legislation (not that great strides have been made in the past seven years of Democratic dominance). And, global warming aside, it’s probably not a good idea to put someone who calls scientific consensus a “hoax” in charge of a Senate committee that holds the purse strings for scientific funding.[/QUOTE]
Isn't the guy in charge of science a creationist?
[QUOTE=RejectedPost;46436614]Isn't the guy in charge of science a creationist?[/QUOTE]
the us science comittees are known to be full of the least scientific fucklords in congress
Yeah, Lamar Smith, the current head of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is also an idiot. Just look at this recent interview [url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/07/lamar-smith-climate-change-denial_n_6123638.html[/url]
-snip, I stand quite corrected-
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;46436719]I'll bite: he does have a point about the IPCC making unreliable predictions, memory serving in the past twelve years they reported that all glaciers in the Himalayas would've melted within four years, three times.[/QUOTE]
No, in 2007 they predicted the glaciers will melt by 2035 and have redacted that statement 4 years ago [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_IPCC_Fourth_Assessment_Report[/url]
[QUOTE=Lilyo;46436740]No, in 2007 they predicted the glaciers will melt by 2035 and have redacted that statement 4 years ago [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_IPCC_Fourth_Assessment_Report[/url][/QUOTE]
As it appears that I can no longer find a source of my statement and all of yours appear to be in order, it would appear that you are correct, as such I yield to your argument.
I know that as the majority party, they get control over committee appointments, but it sickens me to see people appointed who don't even believe in the work the committee is supposed to be doing.
Next up: The chairman of the space subcommittee believes the Earth is flat.
Seriously, people, just spend two minutes looking around the House Science Committee's site: [url]http://science.house.gov/[/url]
Smith has plastered his name and is stupid mug all over it. Every press release and piece of information you click on is an embarrassment to the nation. Most recent press release? Lamar Smith thinks the IPCC, AKA a panel assembled by the UN and made up of some of the best climate scientists in the world, puts out "political rhetoric" to provide cover for "costly new regulations and energy rationing". Science denial is on the front page of the official Science Committee website. Shit on a fucking stick, I cannot believe this is what my country looks like in 2014.
Oh, and I almost forgot the front page crown jewel: Lamar Smith's whackadoodle conspiracy theory piece on the EPA's secret maps and plot to steal land from Americans: [url]http://science.house.gov/press-release/smith-maps-show-epa-land-grab[/url]
Why would the Environmental Protection Agency ever need maps of the [I]environment?[/I] What are they hiding? [I][B]WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH BENGHAZI!?[/B][/I]
I think I need to go to the hospital, something just went "pop" in the back of my head. On second thought, for the sake of your health, stay away from the House Science Committee's website.
I'm honestly bewildered there aren't stricter laws about who runs who. How the hell is it legal for someone with absolutely no expertise in these fields to run these committees? In fact Lamar Smith seems to act intentionally against the purpose of the science, space, and technology committee and should absolutely be removed from office. James Inhofe shows extreme bias and lack of scientific knowledge SPECIFICALLY FOR WHAT HE'S ASSIGNED TO DO. What the fuck? That's like appointing the ceo of McDonalds as head of the FDA.
It's okay America, we've had the same thing since 2010.
As added bonus, incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says his main goal is “to try to do whatever I can to get the EPA reined in” to stop the EPA from regulating carbon dioxide emissions at coal-burning power plants.
[url]http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/11/07/3590277/mcconnell-priority-rein-epa/[/url]
It's kind of a standard political tactic, when you can't just destroy the government agencies you oppose, abuse your position of power to render those agencies incapable of performing their intended function.
It's only going downward, I don't like the people running my government but I have no choice but to put up with it.
...y'know, this is going to be quite the story to tell the kids, some day.
[QUOTE=Lilyo;46437422]As added bonus, incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says his main goal is “to try to do whatever I can to get the EPA reined in” to stop the EPA from regulating carbon dioxide emissions at coal-burning power plants.
[url]http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/11/07/3590277/mcconnell-priority-rein-epa/[/url][/QUOTE]
how do people not see this as straight up evil
The problem is with you fucking Americans. If climate change denial wasn't a thing, the Republicans wouldn't be preaching it and instead they would appoint members to these committees who would want to do something about.
God I can't wait till I'm 30. Hopefully by then these assholes will be out of politics.
I still don't understand why you have a system where companies can bribe politicians and literally have it show up on public record half a google search away and no-one seems to care.
Being a climate change denier in the modern age must be like being a flat-Earther. Also in the modern age.
[editline]8th November 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=MoralSupport;46437565]3:05
[video=youtube;lPgZfhnCAdI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPgZfhnCAdI[/video][/QUOTE]
I'm struggling to decide whether I find this more funny or more depressing.
Kick these fuckers out and send them back to high school. They dont know dick about science.
We're all going to die.
Said it before man, as an outside observer, this would be funny if it wasn't so fucking depressing.
Seriously what the fuck is wrong with you people?
[QUOTE=bravehat;46439621]Said it before man, as an outside observer, this would be funny if it wasn't so fucking depressing.
Seriously what the fuck is wrong with you people?[/QUOTE]
After-effects of the Cold War, religious fundamentalism, a two party political system, large corporate investment in said political system, lack of voter confidence or interest, a majority which gets its information from fox news, and a society that views itself as the most superior on earth for a start.
[QUOTE=Antdawg;46437620]The problem is with you fucking Americans. If climate change denial wasn't a thing, the Republicans wouldn't be preaching it and instead they would appoint members to these committees who would want to do something about.[/QUOTE]
"You fucking Americans" meaning "business owners and investors that have nothing to lose but everything to gain if all those nasty evil little regulations and carbon taxes were to suddenly and inexplicably go away", right?
In the HVAC field, we are forbidden by the EPA to vent refrigerant into the atmosphere on purpose (with few exceptions, ie "oh fuck there's a leak" (so long as you repair it within a year at the most) or when you remove your gauges from equipment and the gas in the hoses is released) for various reasons, the primary reason being that CFC/HCFC-based refrigerants contain chlorine which damages the Ozone layer, but even the newer HFC refrigerants are forbidden to be purposely vented because they're a heavy, dense gas and therefor have global warming potential.
My boss/half-owner [B]literally believes[/B] that the EPA regulations affecting his company are purely in place to try and milk as much money out of business owners like him as possible.
[QUOTE=Medevila;46436712]and even still there are FPers who felt a Republican majority was a positive change[/QUOTE]
its funny when some americans say republicans are just as bad as democrats, which to an outside observer, it's such an obvious lie/wishful thinking.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;46437123]I know that as the majority party, they get control over committee appointments, but it sickens me to see people appointed who don't even believe in the work the committee is supposed to be doing.
Next up: The chairman of the space subcommittee believes the Earth is flat.
Seriously, people, just spend two minutes looking around the House Science Committee's site: [url]http://science.house.gov/[/url]
Smith has plastered his name and is stupid mug all over it. Every press release and piece of information you click on is an embarrassment to the nation. Most recent press release? Lamar Smith thinks the IPCC, AKA a panel assembled by the UN and made up of some of the best climate scientists in the world, puts out "political rhetoric" to provide cover for "costly new regulations and energy rationing". Science denial is on the front page of the official Science Committee website. Shit on a fucking stick, I cannot believe this is what my country looks like in 2014.
Oh, and I almost forgot the front page crown jewel: Lamar Smith's whackadoodle conspiracy theory piece on the EPA's secret maps and plot to steal land from Americans: [url]http://science.house.gov/press-release/smith-maps-show-epa-land-grab[/url]
Why would the Environmental Protection Agency ever need maps of the [I]environment?[/I] What are they hiding? [I][B]WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH BENGHAZI!?[/B][/I]
I think I need to go to the hospital, something just went "pop" in the back of my head. On second thought, for the sake of your health, stay away from the House Science Committee's website.[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/css_injector/bg-header.jpg[/IMG]
I couldn't even get past the banner :'(
How do these nutjobs even get elected?
I don't understand how some Americans thought making the house of lords an elected seat in a previous thread was a good idea when they have stuff like this happening.
[QUOTE=MoralSupport;46437565]3:05
[video=youtube;lPgZfhnCAdI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPgZfhnCAdI[/video][/QUOTE]
If you want to see the actual clips of these interviews (not from the daily show, raw coverage) here you go
[video=youtube;ud7fHTswj5k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud7fHTswj5k[/video]
[video=youtube;WJOpDQ-PB-8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJOpDQ-PB-8[/video]
[video=youtube;wqaeAnLf2ng]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqaeAnLf2ng[/video]
Either the committee knows global warming to be real and is denying it for political/financial reasons, or they truly are the idiots of this generation. Either way, they dont deserve to be on this board. This, my friends, is why the EPA has a hard time doing anything
We should make someone has never stepped foot outside a city the chair for the agriculture committee
and then put a high school dropout into the education/workforce committee chairman's seat
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