{"id":9097,"date":"2006-11-17T17:15:09","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T22:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9097.html"},"modified":"2006-11-17T17:15:09","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T22:15:09","slug":"james-inhofe-is-an-even-more-dangerous-idiot-than-i-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/james-inhofe-is-an-even-more-dangerous-idiot-than-i-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"James Inhofe is an even more dangerous idiot than I thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-reaction.blogspot.com\/\">Michael J.W. Stickings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sen. James Inhofe &#8212; thankfully the outgoing chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee &#8212; on <em>FOX &#038; Friends<\/em> this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now look, God\u2019s still up there. We still have these natural changes, and this is what\u2019s going on right now. New science comes out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If the northern hemisphere is warming up, it\u2019s not due to manmade gases. And that\u2019s what these people all come to the conclusion. And yet the other side, the far left, the George Soros, the Hollywood elitists, the far left environmentalists on the committee that I chair \u2014 all of them want us to believe the science is settled and it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, there\u2019s all kinds of new things. Gretchen, you\u2019ll enjoy this. Get your violin out and get ready. They came out with a great discovery just a few weeks ago. And this came from the geophysical research letters and you know what they said? Hold on now! They said the warming is due to the sun. Isn\u2019t that remarkable?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Come on, FOX, tell us. It&#8217;s remarkable, right? It&#8217;s true, right?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>GRETCHEN: Wow.<\/p>\n<p>BRIAN: That\u2019s a Fox News alert.<\/p>\n<p>GRETCHEN: That is a Fox News alert.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s how it went. I kid you not. <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2006\/11\/17\/inhofe-hoax\/\">Think Progress<\/a> has the video and the transcript along with a reminder that pretty much every serious climatological scientist thinks that human activity has been a major cause of global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Inhofe thinks it&#8217;s all a hoax. But the joke &#8212; and the tragedy &#8212; will be on all of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Sen. James Inhofe &#8212; thankfully the outgoing chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee &#8212; on FOX &#038; Friends this morning: Now look, God\u2019s still up there. We still have these natural changes, and this is what\u2019s going on right now. New science comes out&#8230; If the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}