Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), official photo
Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), having taken cognizance of the CRU Archive Incident, has vowed to call for an investigation of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to determine whether and in what manner that body has been complicit in scientific fraud.
Senator Inhofe, in separate interviews with Jed Babbin and Melanie Morgan of the Washington Times' America's Morning Show and Ed Morrissey of Hotair.com, has stated that he was not surprised to learn that the East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was engaging, as he sees it, in scientific fraud, but only that some person or persons unknown was bold enough to reveal it by releasing an archive of incriminating evidence.
This thing is serious, you think about the literally millions of dollars that have been thrown away on some of this stuff that they came out with.
Earlier last week, after Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), Majority Floor Leader, had postponed consideration of the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade bill until next spring, Senator Inhofe said this to Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) 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...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...Today I have been vindicated.
Climatic Research Unit (Photo courtesy CRU)
Senator Inhofe, of course, said that before the discovery of the CRU Archive.
Senator Inhofe is no stranger to the controversy surrounding the idea of anthropogenic global warming (AGW). In a 2005 floor speech denouncing the IPCC, Senator Inhofe said:
Today, I will discuss something else – scientific integrity and how to improve it. Specifically, I will discuss the systematic and documented abuse of the scientific process by an international body that claims it provides the most complete and objective scientific assessment in the world on the subject of climate change – the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC. I will conclude with a series of recommendations as to the minimum changes the IPCC must make if it is to restore its credibility.
Senator Inhofe was talking about a 1996 IPCC report, a chapter of whicht, Inhofe says, was altered to change its entire meaning at its final peer review. The lead author for that chapter was Ben Santer, one of several scientists implicated in the CRU Archive for complicity in non-compliance with Freedom of Information requests and, in one instance, of threatening physical violence against a noted AGW skeptic. But Inhofe blamed pressure from the US State Department, then under then-Secretary Madeleine Albright, as the key agent of the changes.
Senator Inhofe readily acknowledges that he cannot affect the operations of the IPCC, over which the UN, and not the USA, has jurisdiction. However, he hoped to stall efforts, legislative and executive, to compromise US sovereignty while using AGW as an excuse.
Senator Inhofe has served on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works for most of his Senate career, either as chairman or as ranking member, depending on which Party controlled the Senate in any given term.
UPDATE, November 25: Senator Inhofe has sent letters to several of the climate scientists named in the CRU e-mails, and to their respective inspectors general, ordering them to retain copies of e-mails on their end, as part of his widely-anticipated investigation.
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Inhofe is an idiot.
Agreed, Inhofe is a joke.
Al Gore is the real joke, that and you fools that believe the lies, to the slaughter go the sheep.
Just a "Powers That Be" coverup. Nothing. And I mean NOTHING EVER comes of investigations. Ever notice that. Another scam to pull the wool over the People's eyes.
They all need to be thrown out. Now we're into the Trust Republicans don't Trust Democrats part of the game. But the actors are all the same. EXCEPT this time the stakes are Global and much higher.
People know that Global Warming = Climate Change or whatever the new PC term of the month is, was and is all B#llsh!t. We need a way to kill this Copenhagen crap AND Cap and Tax AND get rid of the PHONIES in Washington.
Inhofe has pretty much singlehandedly kept the US out of this mess so far. Now with their chance to hook their biggest fish in jeopardy, and their credibility (further) on the line, Global Warming/Cooling will go back in the can for another decade or two.
And we'll all live to tell about it...
Inhofe is a "V"
I wouldn't count on that!
Anyone who believes the IPCC or Al Gore is an idiot. AGW is about control over our lives. WAKE UP!
I vote for prosecuting James Inhofe if he is wrong and sending him to Gitmo. Consider a non-Scientist like Inhofe versus 30,000 climate educated scientists.
Inhofe reasons that global warming is a hoax because God won't let it happen. How scientific is that? Really?
"Who is the bigger fool? The fool or the fool who follows?" - Ben Kenobi from Star Wars.
Al always lost on the playground.
The fraud and collusion exhibited by the aquired emails of the so-called UK "scientists" demonstrates that there is more politics than science behind their fear mongering.
Logically, if all oceanside cities are threatened by polar ice cap melting, wouldn't it make more sense to prepare or relocate them instead of merely trading carbon tax credits or using CFL lightbulbs?
Perhaps they recognize that without real scientific data, the trillions of dollars and decades of preparation just wont be spent.
Perhaps someone shopuld inform these "chicken little political scientists" that true science is a quest for the truth, not merely achieving an ideological agenda.
He's a moron. Whatever side he's on will lose because he's another dumb hick.
Global warming is a farce, made up by Gore and others seeking cap and trade. The truth is coming lowlifes.
IT AINT GETTING WARMER FOLKS! DEAL WITH IT!!!!
Rob Misek hit the nail on the head. Now lets can the global warming crap and get on with dealing with the deficit.
Inhofe is the perfect one to investigate possible lies and corrupt influences - he's an expert, having engaged in them his entire political career.
We here in the great state of ExxonMobil know that climate change is caused by dinosa er cow farts. If those liberal scientists hadn't used cap and trade last century we would still have acid rain. When solar power is dirt cheap then who will start wars over oil? Greenland is going to be green!
did you know that if the ice at the north pole,and the sea ice at the south pole,if that all melted t,morow there would be zero sea level rise,why? because it is already floating in the water and occupying its space,simple schoolboy science,yet you let the alarmists brainwash you into thinking 2plus2 eqauls five,they constantly ram it down your throat on mainstream media,talk about dumbing down,wake up sheeple! www.thenewtruth.org.uk
The continents float in the ocean like corks and the ice on the continents is lighter than air and when it melts the atmosphere will be wet and shutup that's why. Dumb liberals.
Inhofe is doing nothing but setting up to sweep this latest revealing of the Truth, UNDER THE RUG.
We need to have a REAL investigation, and until that happens ALL the legislation tied to it must be stopped. It has no basis in Science and is therefore a FRAUD. Cap and Tax, Copenhagen ALL OF IT.
Inhofe is full of Sh!t. He will do nothing but delect the issue. Don't fall for it. There's TOO much $$$$ involved. Look at the Health Care Crap.
Prisonplanet must be down today. The men in black are shoving the illuminati down our throat with morgellon vaccinations. We must not let the gold standard defeat the bilderbergs. U.F.O.
Go To Sleep is a government shill.
dr zauss, Antarctic ice is on LAND, miles deep - when IT melts, the ocean levels rise A LOT.
there's a reason most of central North America was underwater during much of the Cretaceous.
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