By Brad on Dec 8, 2008 in Hypocrisy, Worth Considering | comments(1)
Think Progress calls Bill O’Reilly to account:
Despite his annual tirades against the so-called War on Christmas and people who say “Happy Holidays,” Fox News host Bill O’Reilly has a “Great American Holiday Quiz” up on the Parade Magazine website:
By Brad on Oct 9, 2008 in America, Our Town, Politics, Things That Make You Shake Your Head, Worth Considering | comments(0)
The debate Tuesday night between incumbent (and perennial embarassment) U.S. Senator James Inhofe and challenger Andrew Rice is getting a little national attention, especially in the blogosphere.
Think Progress picked up on Inhofe’s continued inexplicable defense of his comment in 2003 that global warming is “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.” I didn’t watch the debate or really even read about it because I know Inhofe will win anyway and he makes me absolutely sick to my stomach every time I hear him speak. However, Think Progress reported this excerpt from that debate: 
INHOFE: I think I was right on that, and I do believe — first off, let’s keep in mind, though, what the issue is. It’s not whether or not we’re going into a global warming period. We were. We’re not now.
You know, God’s still up there. We’re now going through a cooling spell. And the whole issue there was is it man-made gases, anthropogenic gases, CO2, methane. I don’t think so.
Think Progress’ story goes on to say:
Asked whether John McCain is a victim of the global warming “hoax,” Inhofe responded, “People are afraid of some of the environmentalists out there because they pour all the money into campaigns and, consequently, we have a lot of people who fall in that category, and some of them are Republicans.”
Summing up his assessment of global warming science, Inhofe declared: “It’s hysteria.”
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This chart prepared by NASA’s Goddard Institute clearly disproves the notion that we’re in a cooling period:
Far from a “cooling spell,” the U.S. is now entering a period of “global boiling.” Each day brings new, troubling headlines of a world wrought with extreme storms, floods, droughts, rising seas, catastrophic change, and species loss.
In addition, the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) recently reported that Arctic sea ice volume likely hit a record low in 2008. NASA data shows that for a four-week period in August 2008, sea ice melted faster during that period than ever before. Apparently, the “cooling spell” hasn’t been felt in the Arctic.
