Always a lightning rod for global warming activists’ discontent, Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe was treated to some challenging tweets Thursday after the left-wing blog ThinkProgress posted a photo of melting street lights in his home state and claimed they were the result of global warming.
“WOW. It’s so hot in Oklahoma that the streetlights are melting,” ThinkProgress declared, noting the temperature topping off at 114 degrees.
“Hey Senator @InhofePress, even your streetlights are saying #ImTooHot http://ow.ly/cHbX4,” the Climate Reality Project tweeted later, linking to the ThinkProgress claim.
“Senator Inhofe, God may be trying to get your attention. Check out this picture http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/08/02/630211/in-oklahoma-its-so-hot-the-street-lights-are-melting/ …” added Environmental activist Bill McKibben, highlighted by blogger Tom Nelson.
That tweet was later deleted.
But according to KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City, the street lamps melted because of a dumpster fire in the area the night before. KFOR first posted the streetlamp photo on its Facebook page.
“That is the consensus in the newsroom,” a KFOR staffer confirmed to The Daily Caller.
On Thursday afternoon, KFOR provided a picture of the dumpster blaze to Inhofe’s staff at the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works.
If global warming melted a street lamp every car sitting in a Oklahoma parking lot would have been a puddle of plastic LONG ago.
These agendas have to be supported by lies and distortions because the truth will not suppot them.