James Inhofe, the Republican (naturally) senator from Oklahoma was on Faux News this morning brandishing his mighty intellect. You can see the video and/or read the transcript at ThinkProgress. He claims that global warming is all a big hoax perpetrated by left-wing extremists. You see it can't be global warming, because only the northern hemisphere is warming, not the whole globe. And even if the northern hemisphere is warming, it's not caused by man-made greenhouse gases, see. It has to be natural, 'cause god is still up there. That's right, if the northern hemisphere is warming it must be because the invisible cloud-daddy wants it to be warmer. I guess he just got tired of looking at all those damn glaciers.
Let me just clarify his position. Senator Inhofe believes the warming of the northern hemisphere, where the vast majority of human population and industrialization resides, cannot be caused by human activities because the southern hemisphere, where population and industry are a great deal lower, is not experiencing warming. Uhh, buhh, wuhh? Nobody is that fucking stupid, are they?
Inhofe ends by announcing that it was discovered just a few weeks ago that the warming is caused by the sun. No shit, he said that. This guy is the chairman (until January) of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and he only just learned that the sun is the source of the earth's warmth. Fire HOT. I thought even plants knew that. It's not the source of the heat that is the problem, moron. It's the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere preventing that heat from radiating back into space. Fuck me running! When Congress is in session, the average IQ for Washington D.C. must drop 20 points.