Phew, that's a relief. As we're shufflling toward the Apocalypse, at least I don't have to worry about the pesky problem of climate change. For a sea-level dwelling Floridian in particular, this announcement is most welcome. According to this posting from Think Progress, Senator Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) debunks the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Check out the link; you'll enjoy it.
As Senator Inhofe modestly states, "It turns out that I was right all along." Whereas you and I might have had the impression that the IPCC relied on the reports of thousands of scientists, Inhofe has learned that they relied on only one.
[quote from transcript portion included at Think Progress]
[T]he more I checked into it, the things started with the United Nations, the International Panel on Climate Control, and they used one scientist. And his name was Michael Mann, the famous hockey stick — remember that — where he plotted the temperatures that went all the way across on a horizontal line, then you got to the 20th century and it started going up.
Well, one thing they forgot to do is put in the medieval warming period, which was from about 900 to 1400 A.D., when it was warmer then than it is now.... So in all of the recent science, as I`ve mentioned on your radio show, it confirms that I was right on this thing. This thing is a hoax.[quote from transcript portion included at Think Progress ends]
Before reading this article, I had only Lord Wakeham's assurance that a little global warming isn't necessarily a bad thing to console me, particularly after Al Gore's cruel film (in which the homeless, drowning polar bears desperately seeking a piece of ice to rest upon were a particularly nasty twist of the knife).
So thanks, Senator, for setting the record straight! Now assure me that the victims of last year's hurricanes are housed and safe, that there will be no further hurricanes this summer, and that things are going to work out fine in the Middle East, and I can rest easy once more.
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