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Sen. Jim Inhofe Throws Snowball on Senate Floor in Attempt to Debunk Climate Change

Feb 26, 2015, 5:22 PM ET

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Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, throws a snowball on the Senate floor.

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This may be a congressional first.

Sen. Jim Inhofe, a devoted climate change denier, tossed a snowball at someone on the Senate floor today as he tried to debunk climate change.

“In case we had forgotten because we keep hearing that 2014 has been the warmest year on record, I ask the chair: You know what this is? It's a snowball and that just from outside here so it's very, very cold out. Very unseasonal,” he said.

“So, Mr. President, catch this,” Inhofe, R-Okla., said on the Senate floor, tossing the snowball to someone off-screen as he tried to suppress a smile.

(rest of the story at above link)

Pretending the climate email leak isn't a crisis won't make it go away

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/nov/25/monbiot-climate-leak-crisis-response

Global warming rigged? Here's the email I'd need to see

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/nov/23/global-warming-leaked-email-climate-scientists

Hackers 'expose global warming con': Sceptics claim that leaked emails reveal research centre massaged temperature data

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229740/Hackers-expose-global-warming-Claims-leaked-emails-reveal-research-centre-massaged-temperature-data.html

BJ THOMAS Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head

Number of Americans who believe in climate change drops, survey shows

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/oct/22/climate-change-us-pew-survey

epa-free-speech-causes-global-warming

http://glossynews.com/science-and-technology/environment/200909261314/epa-free-speech-causes-global-warming/

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6814912.ece

Man-made volcanoes may cool Earth

Are you aware that glaciers are growing in Washington State?

http://iceagenow.com/Open_letter_to_Congressman_Dave_Reichert.htm

'Global warming is baloney' signs put the heat on Burger King

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/05/burger-king-global-warming-us

Antarctic Ice Is GROWING,
Not Melting Away



http://www.rense.com/general85/antart.htm

Scientists to Issue Stark Warning Over Dramatic New Sea Level Figures

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/03/08-2

Rising sea levels pose a far bigger eco threat than previously thought. This week's climate change conference in Copenhagen will sound an alarm over new floodings - enough to swamp Bangladesh, Florida, the Norfolk Broads and the Thames estuary
And key to these deliberations will be the issue of ice-sheet melting.


Key Quotes:

The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - when it presented its most up-to-date report on the likely impact of global warming in 2007 - concluded that sea-level rises of between 20 and 60 centimetres would occur by 2100. These figures were derived from estimates of how much the sea will increase in volume as it heats up, a process called thermal expansion, and from projected increases in run-off water from melting glaciers in the Himalayas and other mountain ranges.

Similarly, a commission of 20 international experts, called on by the Dutch government to help plan its coastal defences, recently gave a range of 55cm to 1.1 metres for sea-level rises by 2100. "Equally important, this commission has highlighted the fact that sea-level rise will not stop in the year 2100," said Professor Stefan Rahmstorf of Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. "By 2200, they estimate a rise of 1.5 to 3.5m unless we stop the warming. This would spell the end of many of our coastal cities."

This point was backed by Dr Jason Lowe of the Hadley Centre, the UK's foremost climate change research centre. "It is still not clear exactly how much the sea will rise by the end of this century, but it is certain that rises will continue for hundreds of years beyond that - even if we do manage to stabilise carbon dioxide emissions and halt the rise in atmospheric temperature. The sea will continue to heat up and expand. In addition, the Greenland ice sheets will continue to melt," he said.

Czech President attacks Al Gore's climate campaign

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.a18bbb18df8422d8340c4db2e8eb4388.1131&show_article=1

Extreme Alaska cold grounds planes, disables cars

http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2009/01/08/ap/us/d95itr380.txt

2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved

Looking back over my columns of the past 12 months, one of their major themes was neatly encapsulated by two recent items from The Daily Telegraph.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/3982101/2008-was-the-year-man-made-global-warming-was-disproved.html

Facts melted by 'global warming'

Something very odd had happened to the daily updated graph on the official Nansen website last weekend, writes Christopher Booker.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/3883550/Facts-melted-by-global-warming.html

Al Gore sued by over 30.000 Scientists for fraud

Stubborn glaciers fail to retreat, awkward polar bears continue to multiply

"Second only to the melting of the Arctic ice and those "drowning" polar bears, there is no scare with which the global warmists, led by Al Gore, more like to chill our blood than the fast-vanishing glaciers of the Himalayas, which help to provide water for a sixth of mankind. Recently one newspaper published large pictures to illustrate the alarming retreat in the past 40 years of the Rongbuk glacier below Everest. Indian meteorologists, it was reported, were warning that, thanks to global warming, all the Himalayan glaciers could have disappeared by 2035."

Yet:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/11/23/do2310b.xml

The price of dissent on global warming




http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0%2C25197%2C24700827-7583%2C00.html

Planet Has Cooled Since Bush Took Office’ - Gore Admits ‘I’ve failed badly’



http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/6416