"c-bee1" <c-bee1@insightbb.com> wrote in message
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"MioMyo" <USA_Patriot@Somewhere.com> wrote in message
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That is in spite of US Senator. The question here is why not just report
what the senator really said and let the chips fall where they may?

MAybe they consider the fact that he's a paid-off liar to be newsworthy.
lol

That would be true, then, for every politician in office.

really being said, possibly by you too, is sit down, shut up and just
listen & do what I say because there's no reason to discuss the matter -
even if you do have facts worthy of consideration!

"c-bee1" <c-bee1@insightbb.com> wrote in message
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"MioMyo" <USA_Patriot@Somewhere.com> wrote in message
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That is in spite of US Senator. The question here is why not just report
what the senator really said and let the chips fall where they may?

MAybe they consider the fact that he's a paid-off liar to be newsworthy.
lol

That would be true, then, for every politician in office. But what I see is
really being said, possibly by you too, is sit down, shut up and just listen
& do what I say because there's no reason to discuss the matter - even if
you do have facts worthy of consideration!

September 28, 2006
SENATOR JAMES INHOFE, CHAIRMAN, SENATE ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS
COMMITTEE SENATE FLOOR SPEECH DELIVERED THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2006

Contact: Marc Morano (202) 224-5762 (

Warming

Hysteria:

http://epw.senate.gov/speechitem.cfm?party=rep&id=263759

This past Monday, I took to this floor for the eighth time to discuss

global

warming. My speech focused on the myths surrounding global warming and
how
our national news media has embarrassed itself with a 100-year documented
legacy of coverage on what turned out to be trendy climate science

theories.

Over the last century, the media has flip-flopped between global cooling

and

warming scares. At the turn of the 20th century, the media peddled an
upcoming ice age -- and they said the world was coming to an end. Then in
the 1930s, the alarm was raised about disaster from global warming -- and
they said the world was coming to an end. Then in the 70's, an alarm for
another ice age was raised -- and they said the world was coming to an

end.

And now, today we are back to fears of catastrophic global warming -- and
again they are saying the world is coming to an end.

Today I would like to share the fascinating events that have unfolded

since

my floor speech on Monday.

CNN CRITICIZES MY SPEECH

This morning, CNN ran a segment criticizing my speech on global warming

and

attempted to refute the scientific evidence I presented to counter
climate
fears.

First off, CNN reporter Miles O'Brien inaccurately claimed I was "too

busy"

to appear on his program this week to discuss my 50 minute floor speech
on
global warming. But they were told I simply was not available on Tuesday

or

Wednesday.

I did appear on another CNN program today -- Thursday -- which I hope
everyone will watch. The segment airs tonight on CNN's Headline News at

7pm

and repeats at 9pm and midnight Eastern.

Second, CNN's O'Brien falsely claimed that I was all "alone on Capitol

Hill"

when it comes to questioning global warming.

Mr. O'Brien is obviously not aware that the U.S. Senate has
overwhelmingly
rejected Kyoto style carbon caps when it voted down the McCain-Lieberman
climate bill 60-28 last year - an even larger margin than its rejection
in
2003.


Third, CNN's O'Brien, claimed that my speech earlier contained errors
regarding climate science. O'Brien said my claim that the Antarctic was
actually cooling and gaining ice was incorrect. But both the journals
Science and Nature have published studies recently finding - on balance -
Antarctica is both cooling and gaining ice.


CNN's O'Brien also criticized me for saying polar bears are thriving in

the

Arctic. But he ignored that the person I was quoting is intimately

familiar

with the health of polar bear populations. Let me repeat what biologist

Dr.

Mitchell Taylor from the Arctic government of Nunavut, a territory of
Canada, said recently:


"Of the 13 populations of polar bears in Canada, 11 are stable or

increasing

in number. They are not going extinct, or even appear to be affected at
present."


CNN's O'Brien also ignores the fact that in the Arctic, temperatures were
warmer in the 1930's than today.


O'Brien also claimed that the "Hockey Stick" temperature graph was

supported

by most climate scientists despite the fact that the National Academy of
Sciences and many independent experts have made it clear that the Hockey
Stick's claim that the 1990's was the hottest decade of the last 1000

years

was unsupportable.


So it seems my speech struck a nerve with the mainstream media. Their
only
response was to cherry pick the science in a failed attempt to refute me.


It seems that it is business as usual for many of them. Sadly, it looks

like

my challenge to the media to be objective and balanced has fallen on deaf
ears.


SPEECH BYPASSED THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA

Despite the traditional media's failed attempt to dismiss the science I
presented to counter global warming alarmism, the American people
bypassed
the tired old traditional media by watching CSPAN or clicking on the

Drudge

Report and reading the speech online.

From the flood of overwhelming positive feedback I received, I can tell

you

the American people responded enthusiastically to my message.

The central theme was not only one of thanks, but expressing frustration
with the major media outlets because they knew in their guts that what

they

have been hearing in the news was false and misleading.

Here is a brief sampling:

Janet of Saugus, Massachusetts: "Thank you Senator Inhofe. Finally
someone
with the guts to stand up and call it what it is -- a sham. I think you

have

taken over Toby Keith's place as my favorite Oklahoman!!"

Al of Clinton, Connecticut writes: "It's about time someone with a loud
microphone spoke up on the global warming scam. You have courage - if
only
this message could get into the schools where kids are being brow-beaten
with the fear message almost daily."

Kevin of Jacksonville, Florida writes: "I'm so glad that we have leaders
like you who are willing to stand up against the onslaught of liberal

media,

Hollywood and the foolish elected officials on this topic. Please keep up
the fight!"

Steven of Phoenix, Arizona writes: "As a scientist, I am extremely
pleased
to see that there is at least one member of congress who recognizes the
global warming hysteria for what it is. I am extremely impressed by the
Senator's summary and wish he was running for President."

Craig of Grand Rapids, Michigan writes: "As a meteorologist I strongly

agree

with everything you said."

My speech ignited an internet firestorm. So much so, that my speech
became
the subject of a heated media controversy in New Zealand. Halfway across

the

globe, a top official from the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
challenged New Zealand's television station to balance what he termed
"alarmist doom-casting" and criticized them for failing to report the

views

of scientists in their own country that I cited here in America.

( http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0609/S00306.htm )

As the controversy in New Zealand shows, global warming hysteria has
captured more than just the American media.

The reaction to my speech keeps coming in: Just this morning, The

Pittsburgh

Tribune-Review newspaper wrote an editorial calling my speech "an unusual
display of reason" on the Senate floor.

I do have to give credit to another publication, Congressional Quarterly,

or

CQ for short. On Tuesday, CQ's Toni Johnson took the issues I raised
seriously and followed up with phone calls to scientist-turned global
warming pop star James Hansen's office. CQ wanted to ask Hansen about his
quarter of a million dollar grant from the left-wing Heinz Foundation,

whose

money originated from the Heinz family ketchup fortune.

As I have pointed out, many in the media dwell on any industry support

given

to so-called climate skeptics, but the same media completely fail to note
Hansen's huge grant from the partisan Heinz Foundation. It seems the
media
makes a distinction between ketchup money and oil money.

But Hansen was unavailable to respond to CQ's questions about the
'Ketchup
Money' grant, which is highly unusual for a man who finds his way into
the
media on an almost daily basis. Mr. Hansen is always available when he is
peddling his increasingly dire predictions of climate doom.

ABC NEWS PROMOTES CLIMATE HYSTERIA

I have been engaged in this debate for several years and believe there is

a

growing backlash of Americans rejecting what they see as climate scare
tactics. And as a result, global warming alarmists are becoming

increasingly

desperate.

Perhaps that explains why the very next day after I spoke on the floor,

ABC

News's Bill Blakemore on Good Morning America prominently featured James
Hansen touting future scary climate scenarios that could / might /

possibly

happen. ABC's "modest" title for the segment was "Will the Earth Become

Too

Hot? Are Our Children in Danger?"

The segment used all the well worn tactics from the alarmist guidebook --
warning of heat waves, wildfires, droughts, melting glaciers, mass
extinctions unless mankind put itself on a starvation energy diet and

taxed

emissions.

But that's no surprise - Blakemore was already on the record declaring
"After extensive searches, ABC News has found no such [scientific]
debate"
about manmade catastrophic global warming.

( http://abcnews.go.com/US/print?id=2374968 )

You have to be a pretty poor investigator to believe that. Why would 60
prominent scientists this last spring have written Canadian Prime
Minister
Harper that "If, back in the mid-1990s, we knew what we know today about
climate, Kyoto would almost certainly not exist, because we would have
concluded it was not necessary." (

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=3711460e-bd5a-475d-a6be-4db87559d605 )

On Tuesday's program, the ABC News anchor referred to Blakemore as
"passionate" about global warming. "Passionate" is one word to describe

that

kind of reporting, but words like objectivity or balance are not.

I believe it's these kinds of stories which explain why the American

public

is growing increasingly skeptical of the hype. Despite the enormous 2006
media campaign to instill fear into the public, the number of people who
believe that weather naturally changes -- is increasing.

A Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll in August found that most Americans do
not attribute the cause of recent severe weather events to global
warming,
and the portion of Americans who believe that climate change is due to
natural variability has increased over 50% in the last five years.

Given the diminishing importance of the mainstream media, I expect that
trend to continue.

I hope my other colleagues will join me on the floor and start speaking

out

to debunk hysteria surrounding global warming. This issue is too
important
to our generation and future generations to allow distortions and media
propaganda to derail the economic health of our nation.