Senator James Inhofe told a room of climate change deniers they’re “doing the Lord’s work.”

[n2doc]

Senator James Inhofe told a room of climate change deniers they’re “doing the Lord’s work.”The chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is best known for his insistence that global warming is a hoax, and he offered a pep talk on Monday to a group that hasn’t exactly seen things go its way of late.

“As COP21 continues this week, I look forward to hearing what kind of cover-up deal emerges from this international climate conference,” Inhofe said in a prerecorded message broadcast during an unofficial side event to the Paris climate conference. “And you guys here in this room, as you always have, just keep it up. Our progress would not have happened without you. You’re doing the Lord’s work, and we’re going to win this thing together.”

His seven-minute rant, which summarized every conservative argument you might hear against a global climate agreement, was part of the Paris counter-programming planned by a few prominent denier groups, including the oil-funded think tank Heartland Institute.

https://newrepublic.com/minutes/125206/senator-james-inhofe-told-room-climate-change-deniers-theyre-doing-lords-work

[msrizzo]

1. Sure

If your lord is Lord Voldemort.

[valerief]

2. Cuz the Lord has massive oil and coal investments. nt

[pampango]

3. Makes you wonder how any Paris agreement will ever be ratified by our congress with these bozos

in charge.

If Paris is successful, we could be the only country that does not ratify it. If it is "binding" (enforceable), how do we react when the rest of the world 'enforces' some environmental ruling on the US?

[n2doc]

5. There is zero chance of it getting ratified in the US

Even if Dems win the WH and the Senate next year.

[pampango]

8. As important as the climate change negotiations in Paris are, you have to wonder what

people there think about the fact that the US congress will not ratify anything.

We can only make changes around the edges that can be done with executive authority and don't require congressional action. In other words, not be as bold as the crisis demands.

The rest of the world must at the US as the biggest obstacle at the table. Perhaps they can reach a significant and binding agreement with an enforcement mechanism and just leave the US out of it until we decide to actually become a part of the world.

[librechik]

4. cuz the objections to climate science are based on quasi-religious hocus pocus.

the Lord they are speaking about is the one with hooves and horns.

[Botany]

6. Doing the Lord's Work

[pandr32]

7. I thought all joining Congress had to take an "Oath of Office"...

...you know...to support and defend the Constitution, and to observe the Laws, etc. He may be using his First Amendment rights to talk about "the Lord's work", but to include himself in a religious group that "is ready" to work against the interests of this country, its values, and its government, not to mention the rest of the world, seems to me to be a departure from his oath of office and he should find his arse in a sling ready to be catapulted out of office...at least from being Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee for a start.
Am I wrong?

[yellowcanine]

9. The LORD being Big Oil, presumably.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. Nothing Christian Taliban apocalyptic about that.

[Initech]

11. This anti-environment rant brought to you by ExxonMobil.

[Johonny]

12. The funy part is this moron is too liberal for most modern conservatives

They really are the party of fools. F him.

[Orsino]

13. In the feudal sense, anyway. n/t

[Gothmog]

14. Inhofe is an idiot