Senator (Inhofe) calls UN climate meeting "brainwashing"

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate's most vocal global warming skeptic, James Inhofe, on Thursday dismissed a U.N. meeting on climate change as "a brainwashing session."

Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican who will step down as chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee in January, told a news conference, "The idea that the science (on global warming) is settled is altogether wrong."

A majority of scientists, many in the U.S. government, accept that global warming is spurred by human actions and the emission of greenhouse gases. President George W. Bush said as much in July at a summit of industrialized nations.

Inhofe said he acknowledged that the planet is warming but disputed those who attribute it to human activity and the emission of greenhouse gases. Instead, he blamed climate change on natural cycles.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061116/pl_nm/environment_climate_inhofe_dc_2

[Horse with no Name]

1. Inhofe is irrelevant.

I doubt he likes that either.:evilgrin:

[The Count]

4. Yup. Bring Barbara Boxer already!

[IndianaGreen]

2. Inhofe is not a skeptic, for that denotes reason and critical thinking

Inhofe's denial of global warming is on a par with the Flat Earth Society and those that deny there was ever a Moon landing.

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. No, the science of global warming is not settled

But the fact of global warming is now established scientific fact, and the evidence of human contribution is irrefutable. Where there is still debate is on what, if anything, can be done to mitigate the damage and prevent a global catastrophy.

[BootinUp]

5. You and your technicalities

:sarcasm:

It will be a huge breath of fresh air when this asshat is demoted.

[sakabatou]

6. Isn't Inohofe in with Big Oil?

[donheld]

7. Inhofe has nothing to worry about

He has no brain to wash.

[gratuitous]

15. If you never use your brain, it never gets dirty

Therefore, he doesn't need a brainwash.

[YankeyMCC]

8. Ignorante and immoral jerk!

Just watch the world burn and give no consideration to the future.

Jerk.

[pinniped]

9. This idiot doesn't have the capacity to even comprehend the concept of....

global warming.

It doesn't say what his scientific background is. Because he's the chair of whatever, that doesn't mean shit.

Sorry he wasn't at the meeting, they had a book suited for his comprehension level.

As an example of U.N. brainwashing at this week's climate change meeting in Nairobi, Inhofe held up a children's book he said was distributed at the gathering, called "Tore and the Town on Thin Ice."

[saigon68]

12. He has the Brain of a flea

My apology to fleas.

[Vinca]

10. I'd like to formally invite the senator to my New Hampshire home

where yesterday - November 16 - I noticed I had new petunias blooming in the planter on the front steps. Strange, strange weather.

[Joe Bacon]

11. Now, now, now, now Jimmy is just waiting for THE GREAT FLOAT OFF®

Jimmy doesn't care about global warming because he really believes that J C and his Sonshine Band are gonna do THE GREAT FLOAT OFF® in a week or 2 and take him and all his rich white Christian pals away.

[MGKrebs]

13. And his point is? We should therefore do nothing?

We are helpless to slow the process?
Might as well use more oil? Let our children deal with it?

[Nihil]

14. Don't worry Jimbo, it would never work on you ...

... seeing as how you are pretty deficient in the "brain" area ...

[asthmaticeog]

16. It's so cute that he still tries.

:eyes:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

17. He's right, it would have worked, but for his lack of any brains.

There is nothing left to wash or even rinse, his skull resembling the vast, dry, empty expanses of the west, most often seen in Spaghetti western movies.