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http://www.politico.com/news/sto…Jim Inhofe slams Al Gore on climate 'hoax'
"After weeks of the global warming scandal, the world's first climate billionaire is running for cover. Yes, I'm talking about Al Gore," Inhofe charged. "He's under siege these days. The credibility of the IPCC is eroding. The EPA's endangerment finding is collapsing. And belief that global warming is leading to catastrophe is evaporating. Gore seems to be drowning in a sea of his own global warming illusions nevertheless. He's desperately trying to keep global warming alarmism alive today."- You're sadder than a sack of Huckabees.********
- WTF does Inhofe know about science?DrBombay
- Where's AG then? Sticking his head in the sand like an Ostrich, HAHHAA I love that!********
- WTF does Gore know about it?********
- No really, what does Inhofe know about science? Thought you couldnt read comments? Lying again?DrBombay
- What does this fool know about ANYTHING?Josev
- You're sadder than a sack of Huckabees.
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"I neversaid that I wanted troops out of Afghanistan, someone has to govern that corrupted wasteland."
Then why don't you go there and rule over them. They be brown, so you must be better. They'll instantly recognize your genius and innate superiority and beg you for more funny cartoons of Obama.
Go fuck a goat.
Besides. So, Obama's policies are inline with what you think should be done, yet you post criticisms of him on exactly that policy.
Douchebag.
- Actually, if you have a better idea why not speak up, tough guy!?********
- the f*ck I do idiot********
- Actually, if you have a better idea why not speak up, tough guy!?
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subcommandante, you're so full of sh*t. The only hypocrites in this thread are the f*cks that swallowed the cum of BO. F*ck the kool-aid, you're all over his c*ck like a two cent whore on the corner. Now that his promises haven't even nearly been fulfilled at this point, people are second guessing their votes. Especially moderates and independents, which he clearly swept up with his BS rhetoric last election.
Part of my spout previously....
BO is an oratorial pugilist par excellence! In ancient Greece, I bet he'd have been awarded the highest possible trophy in the Repartee department. Guy is f*cking eloquent. But having said that, I still stand by what I said last time. All this hype about change will amount to crap. There's no way Obama (or any US president for that matter) can take on the real forces that control American foreign policy. No ways US will suddenly dismantle all those military bases around the world. Empire will remain empire - period. I look at all the people across the world jumping up in jubilation to 'welcome a new era' & I shake my head in despair. Will the human race ever wake up? I think not. As they say, 'let the dead bury their fellow dead'.
Now have fun with your liberal dreams and go f*cking wank off the rest of the pansies in this thread.
- Now having said that, there is NO f*cking way I'm voting for a guy that is talking about taxing me MORE!********
- What is with you guys and the gay domination?DrBombay
- Now having said that, there is NO f*cking way I'm voting for a guy that is talking about taxing me MORE!
- ukit0
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/20…
After snow blanketed Washington for several days last month, political opponents of efforts to address climate change pointed to the blustery weather as evidence that global warming is a hoax.
Sen. James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, sent his grandchildren out to build an igloo next to the U.S. Capitol, with a sign calling it " Al Gore's New Home."
Doubts about climate change have been repeated and amplified by cable channels, talk radio and the blogosphere. In raising such doubts, Inhofe and others also have cited e-mails hacked from a British climate lab as well as mistakes in the 3,000-page compilation of research put together in 2007 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations panel that along with Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize that year.
Meanwhile, some of those who want climate change to be a front-burner issue have issued increasingly dire predictions in recent years. After Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005, for instance, environmental groups insisted the science was settled, the debate over and the need for action more urgent than ever.
All of this back and forth can be confusing, some would say deliberately so. But many scientists say the Washington blizzard and Katrina are examples of short-term weather conditions, not long-term climate trends, and don't undermine or support decades of peer-reviewed science about climate change.
Nor have the stolen e-mails or IPCC errors revealed much beyond the intemperate language some climate scientists used to describe their critics, and the human fallibility of others.
The debate reflects how politicians and activists tend to speak in black and white, while most scientists speak in shades of gray and temper their complex findings in degrees of uncertainty.
"There have been some mistakes by scientists, but they have been blown completely out of proportion," said John Cook, an Australian physicist who writes the popular blog and iPhone application Skeptical Science, which catalogues peer-reviewed climate change studies. "Skeptic arguments typically are based on one small part of the puzzle, rather than the broader picture." Lost amid the ruckus is the widespread agreement, even among many skeptics, that greenhouse gases pumped into the atmosphere, largely from the burning of fossil fuels, are driving up global temperatures. That remains one of the core conclusions from the IPCC's landmark report, and was echoed repeatedly by the Bush administration even as it was criticized for failing to do anything about it.
But the IPCC report said most of the Himalayan glaciers would be gone by 2035. Isn't that false? Yes, two sentences in a section of the report erroneously stated that 80 percent of the Himalayan glaciers would soon be gone due to climate change. The conclusion is attributed to an environmental group's report, but isn't backed up by the peer-reviewed science.
The IPCC acknowledged that the statement, buried in the group's 3,000-page report, slipped through procedures intended to ensure that only valid research is cited. Peer review helps provide that check by requiring scientific papers to be vetted by other scientists before publication.
Still, the IPCC says the broader conclusion hasn't changed: Many glaciers already have melted significantly, which could affect the water supply for more than one-sixth of the world's population. Though some glaciers have grown, the rate of melting has accelerated worldwide since the 1970s, according to multiple independent studies.
Did the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration misplace weather stations and exaggerate warming? Anthony Watts, a weather forecaster whose Web sites, Watts Up With That and surfacestations.org, have become focal points for climate skeptics, enlisted volunteers across the country to photograph weather stations. Citing NOAA's own criteria, Watts concluded last year that hundreds of the stations were in poorly located sites, next to parking lots or heating vents or other areas that could inflate temperatures.
"The U.S. temperature record is unreliable," Watts concluded. "And since the U.S. record is thought to be the best in the world, it follows that the global database is likely similarly compromised and unreliable." A new peer-reviewed study by scientists at the National Climatic Data Center, the federal office that tracks climate trends, agrees that problems with the locations of many weather stations are real.
But the temperature records from the poorly located stations cited by Watts actually have a slightly cool bias, not a warm one, according to the review, scheduled to be published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres.
"Fortunately, the sites with good exposure, though small in number, are reasonably well distributed across the country," the researchers concluded, adding that the "good" or better stations cited by Watts show warming over time similar to NOAA's overall data.
There also are multiple other surface and satellite measurements of global temperatures, all of which show a warming trend.
- ukit0
JazX, how is Obama taxing you more?
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DrBombay, shut up about the wife. You sound mentally challenged. (no offense to the mentally challenged)
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I only see one pansy in this thread. A guy who says we should lord it over Afghanistan and calls other people pussies and sits behind a keyboard.
I've broken a few limbs fighting skinheads in my days trying to rescue a brother from their rightwing dickhead ways. I still walk with a target on my back. It might not be afghanistan, but I fight for what I believe in and have scars and the police record to prove it.
if I believed in what we're doing in the middle east you'd better believe I'd be there.
Douchebag, Keep talkin', cause you ain't walkin it. Fuck you pansy.
- ukit0
Oh yeah, Jim Inhofe, I'm sure he's a science expert, right?
http://www.desmogblog.com/inhofe…
Inhofe received more in donations from the oil and gas sector than any other Senator. According to the latest available election financing data, in the last five years Inhofe has received just over $3.4 million in donations from 20 industry sectors - almost $1 million (29%) is from the Energy/Natural Resources Sector and their respective PACS.
- ukit0
This article goes into pretty good detail about what a shameless industry whore this guy is.
http://www.prospect.org/cs/artic…
Inhofe opened the hearing by swearing fealty to "sound science." He then lavished praise on a highly controversial paper, authored by two scholars at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, that has been denounced by mainstream climate scientists. "In many important ways," Inhofe declared, the study "shifts the paradigm" away from the accepted view that the late 20th century saw unprecedented global temperature spikes.
Harvard astrophysicist Willie Soon, one of the paper's authors, then spoke, claiming his work showed that 20th-century temperatures were not, in fact, anomalous. He didn't note, however, that his research had been partly funded by the American Petroleum Institute.
Soon -- who did not respond to written questions submitted for this article -- was backed by David Legates of the University of Delaware, another contrarian and co-author of a later version of the paper. Both scientists have collaborated in the past with the George C. Marshall Institute, an organization skeptical of much climate-change science that received $90,000 from ExxonMobil in 2002, the last year for which records are currently available.
O'Keefe himself has previously chaired the (anti-Kyoto Protocol) Global Climate Coalition and served as chief operating officer of the American Petroleum Institute. In addition, he's a registered lobbyist for ExxonMobil, though he comments, "I keep my Exxon work and my Marshall work separate."
Inhofe and others question whether fossil-fuel connections bias climate science. "It's not the politics of the scientists that counts or who funds them," says O'Keefe. "It's the immersion of the hypothesis in the acid bath of truth."
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Two pages later, and no response to my post about Gov. Christie's NJ budget from the conservatives.
Anyone care to chime in and explain how it's more ethical to put psychiatric patients on the street and cut education budgets than raise taxes on the wealthy?
- ...anyone?luckyorphan
- No one agrees with that.DrBombay
- They let dr Bombay out and he seems ok, for a tranny!********
- Thank you for your usually well-thought contribution, cnaps.luckyorphan
- DrBombay0
The tea baggers embarassing Americans once again.
- This video is absolutely disgusting.DrBombay
- You still here bitch??? is'nt it time for milk and cookies!********
- Wow you are an ignorant person.DrBombay
- that video was marked as private and i couldnt watch itfooler2
- http://www.youtube.c…DrBombay
- It is very disturbing. Thank you Faux news for creating this envrironment!DCDesigns
- fooler20
I'm surprised nobody has made a big deal about this.
If GW misspelled something us lefties would be all over it!Barack Obama Picks Kansas in Bracket, Misspells Syracuse
Wednesday
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About mother fucking time somebody sack up and grill this panzy ass...ain't so fun when it's not softball questions Barry!!!!!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/…
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Some of the bullshit spewing from Palin's uneducated mouth on this one. Apparently the health care push through the house is a "corrupt process", an "unconstitutional process"...why don't those fuckwits at Fox pull her up. It is a perfectly constitutional process, one that has been used many times by the Republicans themselves.
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opi…
Nancy Pelosi is a coward, a bully and a hypocrite -- and Barack Obama is hiding behind her skirts.- Almost as ugly as Hillary. Really, these women over 50 should quit, while the cameras still suit them.********
- yeah, they should be in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant.fooler2
- Almost as ugly as Hillary. Really, these women over 50 should quit, while the cameras still suit them.
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- ROFL/LMAO... BWAHAHHAHA! Ohhh it just keeps getting better with this guy.********
- A grown man using internet acronyms...DrBombay
- ...and Newt Gingrich, of course.luckyorphan
- A grown man, using an internet pseudonym! The horror! ;)ismith
- ROFL/LMAO... BWAHAHHAHA! Ohhh it just keeps getting better with this guy.
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Super genius!
Biden mistakenly blesses Irish leader's mother
(AP) – 11 hours ago
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden asked for God's blessing for the late mother of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen during a White House celebration of St. Patrick's Day — except the elderly lady is very much alive.
"God rest her soul," Biden said Wednesday night as he introduced Cowen and President Barack Obama. He quickly caught himself and noted that it's Cowen's father who is no longer living. Of the prime minister's mother, Biden said, "God bless her soul."
Biden then cited the Irish proverb that "a silent mouth is sweet to hear" and yielded the podium to the president.
- ukit0
Wow, 5:30 AM and already you guys are at it. Must have been something extra strong in those tea bags this morning.
- 8:30 AM and working here pal********
- Democrat party is cracking up and your worried about what time someone posts something! dooossshhhhh!!! ********
- 8:30 AM and working here pal
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Just felt like posting this stammering joke of a prez bumbling his way through a real interview .....AGAIN...IT AINT THE OPRAH SHOW BUDDY!!!!!! BRING OUT THE WAAAAAAAAAMBULANCE FOR THE LIBS......
- dude wasn't stammering you fucking hick, he was trying to answer a fucking questionBonSeff
- You sure about that? what makes you think im a hick?? Isnt that stereotyping and couldnt that be perceived as racist if i were say, black? you thought because i was black i must be poor or a criminal?? but since im not a lib ....ohhh i must be in a trailer park!! you are exactly what you are crying about every day...dumb ass!********
- You're very emotional.IRNlun6
- Oh thats funny!!!********
- FAUX FOX NEWS, LMAOutopian
