Inhofe Declares 2009 "The Year of the Skeptic"

Says UN Cap and Trade Effort Dead, Urges New Path Forward

UPDATE:

Please view clips of Senator Inhofe's speech:

Full Text of Senator Inhofe's Speech to the Senate, Nov 18, 2009

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Remember the first time I heard Sen Inhofe talk about 'junk science' and nodding my head in agreement. Figured it was only a matter of time until the 'real' scientists stepped forward with facts to debunk the 'junk science' of Al Gore and others on global warming. In the meantime, Al Gore has made millions and millions off this 'junk science' flying around in his private jet which the Green movement didn't seem to mind. Another Democrat scam job that the Green Movement swallowed hook, line, and sinker.

No one including the Senator thinks we should waste natural resources but to say almost everything we do leads to global warming pointed at what it was -- 'junk science' as the Gore people were using flawed data and methodology.

Senators Inhofe and Nickles along with Cong J.C. Watts were responsible for bringing the National Weather Service and Storms Prediction Center to the Norman Campus of the University of Oklahoma. OU is a leading research university and the home of the brand-new National Weather Center. The School of Meteorology which is part of the new College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences is now housed within the National Weather Center, which also contains the National Severe Storms Laboratory and the Storm Prediction Center. The College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences is also home to the Department of Geography and the Geographic Information Science program.

With some of the leading professors and researchers in the world at OU working in these programs, new advances in geography, GIS, and meteorology are being made daily. Emphasis on interdisciplinary projects involving all three areas allows the College to address current challenges in areas of renewable energy, climate change, and sustainability of the natural and built environments. The real facts not 'junk science' about what is happening on climate change are coming out.

Why anyone would think that Al Gore had all the answers as he shopped around for people that agreed with him is beyond common sense. His radical approach now being debunked shows that Al Gore was nothing but an opportunitist and scam artist who has made millions and millions of dollars. Where is the outrage from the public about what Gore has been doing? Or for that fact where is the media? Some of the media not only made fun of Senator Inhofe but considered him to not come close to measuring up to Al Gore when in fact, Senator has had the facts for a long time.

Senator Inhofe has understood the facts a lot better then Al Gore who ignored facts for years including making a movie. As a proponent of research by helping bring the NWS and Storms Prediction Center to OU to partner with the university has led to the research we see today. Inhofe knew what he was doing unlike the scaremonger Gore. While Gore has been dealing with fuzzy math, Inhofe has been dealing with facts.

It is so refreshing to see Senator Inhofe proven right and Al Gore outed for the scaremonger, opportunist, and scam artist he is after he has made by some accounts a 'billion dollars' while he preyed on people that wanted a better environnment with his flawed data. Al Gore should be investigated but we figure that is too much to ask since he is a Democrat.

UPDATE, 3:31 p.m. cst: A friend of this site has provided us some more background on all of this:

Senator Inhofe notes that this is the year those questioning the consensus are being heard. It is more than that, though. There have been several major science developments. Among them are,

First, the continuing lack of warming during this decade, contrary to the predictions of the IPCC, to the extent that the organization itself and supporting scientists have had to acknowledge that failure and create excuses. The alarmists also have additional unwelcome anamolies which include increasing Arctic ice, slowing ocean level rise, ocean heat measurements, etc.

Secondly, it has been revealed to many shocked scientists that the HADCRUT, which was placed in charge of the world's definitive compilation of temperature data, has "lost" or eliminated the original data of weather stations worldwide. Since that data was entrusted to the institution, it became the sole repository of much data, and all that is seems to remain now is the "value added data" and it is now impossible to verify the accuracy of the manipulations HADCRUT performed, and continues to perform. This is especially disconcerting since HadCrut "corrections" over the years have consistently had the effect of enhancing 20th century warming and their methodology is clearly questionable. This distressing story has been developing rapidly over this year due to HADCRUT's. (http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=6789 http://rankexploits.com/musings/2009/free-the-cru-data/ & http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/24/a-new-view-on-giss-data-per-lucia/ among many others)

Thirdly, MIT Prof.Lindzen et.al. published a seminal paper (www.drroyspencer.com/Lindzen-and-Choi-GRL-2009.pdf) directly analyzing the energy balance of Earth using satellite data now available, and those calculations directly show that the effect of increasing CO2 is incorrectly incorporated by ALL of the climate models. Also in the research front, two new mechanisms Meehl's new mechanism involving Sun,stratosphere and oceans, (http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2009/solarcycle2.jsp) in addition to the Svenson's long proposed Cosmic Ray mechanism and Lindzen's Adaptive Iris, have been proposed and partly verified that have an amplifying effect on changes of energy from the Sun gained ground in explaining how Solar energy changes can be directly amplified. The alarmists have long denied that such positive feedback exists, though historical data has long suggested that it must.In addition to the research and data developments, professional scientific organizations have come increasingly under pressure this year by their memberships for espousing the alarmist viewpoints. The American Physical Society is now reviewing their "official statement" as a result (http://www.openletter-globalwarming.info/Site/open_letter.html) has been signed by 160 members of APS including a Nobel ]. The venerable Journal of journal Chemical and Engineering News has seen a saw the members of the world's largest scientific organization create a firestorm as a result of their chief editor writing that "the science of anthropogenic climate change is becoming increastingly well established."

(http://www.newswithviews.com/Morano/marc104.html) is settled. An American Meteorological Society poll results published in Oct2009 included such nuggets that well under half of their certifed weathercasters believe that it is certain climate is warming, half believe that most of the warming since 1950 is NOT human-induced, and more than two-thirds believe the climate models are reliable (http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/climate_change/). These among many other examples demonstrate that those who are familar with science and the scientific method are increasingly angered by the way "global warming" crowd has put the credibility of science itself under attack.

Inhofe declares victory in speech on global warming
By JIM MYERS World Washington Bureau

Published: 11/18/2009 9:23 PM; Last Modified: 11/18/2009 9:23 PM

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, perhaps Congress’ most vocal skeptic of man-made global warming, essentially declared victory Wednesday in a lengthy speech on the Senate floor.

“I proudly declare 2009 as the ‘Year of the Skeptic,’ the year in which scientists who question the so-called global warming consensus are being heard,’’ the Oklahoma Republican said.

“Until this year, any scientist, reporter or politician who dared raise even the slightest suspicion about the science behind global warming was dismissed and repeatedly mocked.’’

Inhofe recalled his own 2003 remarks in which he said much of the debate over global warming was predicated on fear rather than science.

Alarmists warned of a future plagued by catastrophic flooding, economic dislocations, droughts and mosquito-borne diseases, he said.
Inhofe also recalled his most famous comment in which he suggested that man-made global warming would turn out to be “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.”

“Today, I have been vindicated,’’ he said.

Inhofe pointed to the upcoming international conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, which previously was viewed as a chance for nations to make some kind of a binding agreement on greenhouse gases.

White House aides said Sunday that a fully binding legal agreement would be put off until a December 2010 meeting in Mexico City, The Associated Press reported.
Inhofe said Wednesday that “the reality, of course, is that Copenhagen will be a disaster.’’

Inhofe is the top Republican on the Senate Environment and
Public Works Committee. He recently helped lead a Republican boycott of that panel’s efforts to act on a major climate change bill.
Democrats were forced to vote the measure out of committee without amendments, and an effort already is under way to come up with a different bill.

That measure now is not expected to be taken up in the Senate until next year.

Source: Tulsa World