“If my doctor brought me biopsy results showing cancer, I would do something about it. Inhofe would likely call the doctor an idiot, say the biopsy was a hoax and have me skip merrily to an early death.”- New York Times columnist and Spokane native Timothy Egan on Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, a man who continully proves there’s no sewer he won’t crawl through. 

Egan recently wrote a very sharp criticism of climate change skeptic numero uno titled Weather Bane.  In it Egan reminded us why we’ve spent the better part of three years calling this guy out for his idiotic comments, his seemingly absent grasp of reality, and the bottleneck for which he is. 

For instance: the official, taxpayer-funded site devoted to the Republican position on climate change — the minority page of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee, where Inhofe is the ranking member — features a five-month-old video of Inhofe bloviating over the leaked emails of leading atmospheric scientists in England. He called it “the most significant scientific scandal of our generation.”

Surely, there would be an update, based on the latest of the independent investigations, the one released earlier this month, which found that “climategate” was much ado about poor e-mail etiquette, and nothing to do about hard science. Surely, he would want to set the record straight. But Inhofe did not post this update. If you relied on him, you would think it’s deep winter.

Source: Down to Earth

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