“Protecting the environment requires a sweeping reform of political funding, only then corporations will stop throwing big money at senators“
Uh-huh… what do you suppose the outcome would be if corporations stopped throwing much larger donations at green groups? Where would climate alarm be without the $300,000,000 Al said he was spending over 3 years? (Whatever became of him and all that cash anyway?)
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity.” These words, from WB Yeats’s poem The Second Coming, came to mind as I read the testimony from Wednesday’s Senate hearings on climate change.
They’re not a precise description of what took place, as the two most eminent climate scientists who testified before the environment and public works committee, Christopher Field and James McCarthy, were not lacking in conviction. But they were, as scientists should be, careful and meticulous, laying out their evidence calmly and sequentially, saying nothing that was not supported by the data.
By contrast, the Senate committee’s ranking member (its most senior Republican), James Inhofe, spoke with the demagogic passion of a revivalist preacher. “The global warming movement has completely collapsed … the science of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was finally exposed … The time has come to put these tired, failed policies to rest and embrace the US energy boom so that we can put Americans back to work, turn this economy around, become totally energy independent from the Middle East, and ensure energy security for years to come.”
In other words, Inhofe argued, we should take no action on climate change, which he has described as “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people”.
Yes George, that evidence for global warming is so overwhelming voters basically don’t give a crap.
Inhofe is wrong. “Global warming” is the greatest (and potentially deadliest) hoax ever perpetrated on humankind.
Stop this culture of paying Moonbat for trumpeting climate change.
There’s laws regarding what happens if you give money to a judge to affect the outcome of a case. So much as a nickle (US$0.05) can get you a term in the penitentiary, and the judge too.
Just do the same for public officials, problem solved.
Eric, it’s not that simple. Donation to a campaign fund is indirect and entirely legal. That’s why we have such a campaign finance law system so convoluted that the Speaker of the House couldn’t keep it straight.
Wasn’t Inhofe called the favotite whore of big oil? Would that explain his position?
Even though I suspected James/Harold I wasn’t interested enough to bother checking incoming ip address, sure that you’d soon make it beyond doubt.
So which is the sock puppet persona, or is it both? I’d say both since trolls of your ilk rarely put forth their own name.
I imagine you were expecting this given that this identity was placed in an immediate moderation trap.
About the only thing I am curious about is whether you are paid piecework rates? Do you get a bonus or something if you manage to associate “Inhofe” with “whore” + “oil” a certain number of times?
Whatever, you are a boring and tedious individual James/Harold. I really don’t appreciate the extra moderation work you generate.