James Inhofe (R-Exxon): Denial Ain’t Just a River in Egypt

The Senate Republicans aren’t just doing nothing about global warming, they are funding rearguard attacks by climate skeptics.

They just put out a report out from 400 scientists [Editor's Note: Scientists is a pretty loose description of this motley crew, read about their "qualifications" here] skeptical on the whole idea of global warming.

“A Senate minority report lists 400 reputable scientists who think the only melting ice we should really fear was in the cocktail glasses of attendees at the recent global warming conference in Bali.

In the wake of the Dec. 3-14 conference, where delegates worked to draft a successor to the failed Kyoto Protocol on global warming, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., ranking member on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has released a report that lists scientists who challenge both Al Gore’s assertion that the debate is over and the Bali conclusion that the planet is in imminent danger.”

And of course, Inhofe’s patrons at fossil fuel giants like Exxon continue to fund “denials” around the certainty of global warming.

Not surprisingly, Exxon and their cohorts in the fossil fuel industry are top funders of Inhofe and lots of other notable US politicians.

Oil and Gas’s contributions over past election cycles
James Inhofe’s top contributors
Top recipients of Coal Mining’s money, Inhofe is #3
Top recipients of Oil and Gas’s money, Inhofe is #5 (and fancy that, Hillary ranks #2 with oil and gas)

Why do we wait around for Congress to bring us change when they are so in the pocket of industry giants like Exxon?

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Scott Parkin is a grassroots campaigner with Rainforest Action Network, Rising Tide and Bay Rising affinity group. Originally from Texas, Scott now lives in San Francisco where he city treks, hikes, bikes, camps, listens to live music, plays fetch with his cat Barlow, spends time with his friends and works on different direct democracy and direct action campaigns.

2 Responses to “James Inhofe (R-Exxon): Denial Ain’t Just a River in Egypt”

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1 Eli Rabett Dec 23rd, 2007 at 9:51 pm

Thin qualifications is not the tenth of it. Rabett Run has a complete alphabetized list with a soupcon of snark. There are also something like 45 TV weather folk amidst those scientists. This is similar to the 2660 physicists who signed the original OISM petition, with a very few climate scientists among them
2 Sean Dec 27th, 2007 at 12:14 pm

There is a special place in hell reserved for Sen. Inhofe.

Anyone who lies and misleads about an issue with such serious life-impacting implications will take their place among such evil men as OBL and Hitler.

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