Thursday - December 14, 2006

EnviroNuts Take Control

The game of musical chairs in Congress is going to make for some strange new policies for the next two years. The environment is one area that is probably going to see radically different legislation (and bullshit hearings) for the next two years.

As Bill Steigerwald explains below, when Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) departs as chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee he will be replaced by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and the two are “polar opposites.” (Dang! I wish I’d thought of that phrase!)

Inhofe doesn’t believe all the hype about glowball warming and he believes the media is full of crap. Boxer, on the other hand, is a Liberal darling of the media and to her, glowball warming is a religion. Literally. She has faith in the media reports and considers any scientist who questions glowball warming to be a heretic. She probably has a summer home in Kyoto.

So you all better buckle up your seat belts and strap on your helmets for the party that is about to start in January. It is going to be an agonizing two years ahead as the tinfoil-hat crowd tries to make up for six years of being stuck outside in the wilderness. You are going to learn a lot about spotted owls, polar bears and penguins real soon. Oh yeah ... almost forgot ... you’ll also learn a lot about the E-E-E-EVIL oil and energy companies. Stay tuned ...

_{Mike Lester - The Rome News-Tribune (GA)}

Blowing Cool Air at Global Warming
-- By Bill Steigerwald

Does hot air about climate change spewed in the U.S. Senate contribute to global warming? No one really knows for sure, since Al Gore didn’t address that question in “An Inconvenient Truth.”

But we’ll probably find out in January, when, thanks to the Democrats’ capture of Congress, Sen. Barbara Boxer takes the wheel of the Environment and Public Works Committee from Republican Sen. James Inhofe and makes a liberal U-turn.

As Boxer showed Wednesday morning during Inhofe’s hearing on “Climate Change and the Media,” the California Democrat and Inhofe are polar opposites on global warming.

Boxer is a 10-alarm believer in human-caused climate change. She thinks global warming is the challenge of our generation and can’t wait to start holding hearings and passing laws to tax carbon and torture the evil energy companies.

Inhofe, the current chairman, still holds the quaint, old-fashioned conservative belief that government policy—especially when addressing huge issues like global climate change—should be based on nonpoliticized science and should take into account economic costs.

As the Senate’s chief GW skeptic, he is the archenemy of the global worrying crowd and their evergreen allies in mainstream media, who he charges have misled the public with their “nonstop hyping of ‘extreme scenarios’ and dire climate predictions.”

Inhofe also has dared to utter—on the sacred Senate floor!—the politically heretical truth that “catastrophic global warming is a hoax.” (The key word “catastrophic” is usually dropped when his enemies quote him.) Streamed live on the Internet and featuring scientists on both sides of the global warming debate, Inhofe’s hearing was an under-attended, underreported dud.

Incoming chairwoman Boxer, already feeling her oats, pontificated about the importance of a free press, befuddled witnesses with dumb questions and presented evidence she said proved the media are fair and balanced on global warming coverage.

Apparently, Boxer, who touts herself as a former journalist, is the only liberal in America who doesn’t religiously read The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post or Time magazine.

Because each of those “Four Flagships of the Global Warming Apocalypse”—as well as the major networks and even The Weather Channel—regularly commits what star skeptical witness and Australian paleoclimate researcher Bob Carter said is the media’s main sin: the failure to fairly transmit the reality—i.e., all the facts and the scientific uncertainty—of global climate change to the public.

Amazingly, Boxer wasn’t the most airheaded or most arrogant senator at Inhofe’s hearing. That prize went to New Jersey Democrat Frank Lautenberg, who is equally concerned about his grandchildren’s lives and the polar bears, which he has been mislead to believe by Time magazine have been reduced to “ragged herds searching for food.”

Inhofe called his hearing to show how media bias and unbalanced or simplistic reporting could mislead the public and cause Congress to make “poorly conceived” policy decisions on global warming.

Grandma Boxer’s and Grandpa Lautenberg’s public blatherings unwittingly proved Inhofe’s point. It looks like there’s going to be a lot of scientific silliness in the Senate for the next two years when Boxer and her crew get to be in charge of saving the Earth.

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_{Bill Steigerwald is a columnist at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. E-mail Bill at bsteigerwald@tribweb.com. ©Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, All Rights Reserved. If you’re not a paying subscriber to our service, you must contact us to print or post this column on the web. Distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons, Inc. Contact Cari Dawson Bartley cari@cagle.com for subscription information.}

Posted by The Skipper     on 12/14/2006 at 01:30 AM   
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