Senators Inhofe and Barrasso tagteam EPA Director Lisa Jackson

This was one Committee hearing of the Environmental and Public Works Committee chaired by Senator Boxer (D-CA) that I would have paid money to attend.  Seeing Senators Inhofe (R-OK) and Barrasso (R-WY) going after EPA Director Lisa Jackson would have been priceless.

Senate Democrats still don't get it yet when it comes to the environment. In the 70's it was the 'Ice Age' is coming and now for the last decade or so it is 'Global Warming' is going to destroy the world even to the point of blaming all the cold temperatures and blizzards with record snowfalls on 'Global Warming.' Makes you wonder how much money was put in the pockets of people like Al Gore who supported Global Warming as much as anyone while continuing to fly his private plane everywhere and using more electricity in his home in TN that any other homeowner by far. Typical Democrat hypocrite. By all accounts Gore made millions off his 'Global Warming' hoax. "There's a sucker born every minute" comes to mind.

Senator John Barrasso’s reminded everyone of the consensus in the 1970s that the climate had begun to cool so significantly that the world needed massive government interventions in energy production and consumption to survive it. Barrasso quotes from Newsweek and Time articles of the period. Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) attempts to ride to EPW Chair Barbara Boxer’s rescue by introducing an article that claims the global-cooling consensus of the 1970s was a “myth,” and Boxer urges Udall to add it to the record. But that’s just the set-up Jim Inhofe needed to complete this two-man demolition of “consensus” and to expose the main White House adviser on climate change as a chronic crank, as the Daily Caller reports:

The exchange started with Barrasso addressing the committee’s witness, Environmental Protection Agency Director Lisa Jackson.

“Forty years ago, the same scientists that are predicting the end of the world now from global warming were predicting the end of the world from global cooling,” said Barrasso. “So if we had committed the same amount of taxpayer resources and government manpower that the administration now wants us to commit to prevent global warming — if we’d done that prevent global cooling, we wouldn’t be the most prosperous nation on earth.” …

Still later, Inhofe got into the science debate by citing a 1971 study by Dr. John Holdren, who just so happens to be President Obama’s advisor on science technology. In that study Holdren wrote, “The effects of a new ice age on agriculture and the supportability of large human populations scarcely need elaboration here.” Holdren went on to write that the effects could “generate a tidal wave of proportions unprecedented in recorded history.”

A visibly satisfied Inhofe then turned to Boxer, and stated, “So even the president’s people are agreed with me, Madam Chairwoman!”

NOTE:  Remember — Holdren is one of the leading voice in the US on global warming now.  He’s also Obama’s climate-change czar. (Source:  Hot Air)

One of the first statewide events I attended after we were transferred to Oklahoma had Senator Jim Inhofe as one of the Speakers. Always remember how he called Global Warming 'junk science' and I burst out laughing -- now he has been proven right. Since the Democrats took over the Senate, he has been a thorn in Sen Boxer's side the whole time. It is rumored if she is on an elevator and he gets on, she gets off.

Looking forward to 2012 when Republicans take back the Senate and Senator Inhofe is once again in charge of the Environmental and Public Works Committee. The big question is 'Will Barbara Boxer stay a member of this Committee if she is no longer Chairman?' I am betting she will NEVER be the head of the Minority with Senator Inhofe as Chair.

Think the first order of business in 2013 should be to put the EPA back under a cabinet secretary so all these regulations they instituted for years that have been hurting our economy are brought under control with some common sense instead of hysterics of 'the sky is falling.' Making the EPA a separate entity was one of the worst mistakes ever that goes back to President Nixon. Senator Boxer has been pushing for the EPA to be a cabinet position and President George W. Bush agreed. Why would he agree? EPA does not need to be given more control in our opinion.

The final word from Ed Morrisey at Hot Air:

I haven’t seen that kind of a setup and payoff since Bob Hope and Bing Crosby made movies with Dorothy Lamour. That was during the period when American industry and economic expansion held the national consensus rather than Chicken Little hypotheses with chronically faulty models and contradictory results. Man, I guess I am getting old.