If you are unfamiliar with Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), he is Capitol Hill’s skeptic-in-chief on global warming. He doesn’t exactly hedge his bets on the matter either.
In a 2003 Senate speech, he stated:
“I have offered compelling evidence that catastrophic global warming is a hoax. That conclusion is supported by the painstaking work of the nation’s top climate scientists.”
In 2006, with Tulsa World:
“It kind of reminds…I could use the Third Reich, the Big Lie…You say something over and over and over and over again, and people will believe it, and that’s their [the environmentalists'] strategy… A hot summer has nothing to do with global warming. Let’s keep in mind it was just three weeks ago that people were saying, ‘Wait a minute; it is unusually cool….Everything on which they [the environmentalists] based their story, in terms of the facts, has been refuted scientifically.”
In 2006:
“From the late 1920s until the 1960s they [the media] warned of global warming. From the 1950s until the 1970s they warned us again of a coming ice age. This makes modern global warming the fourth estate’s fourth attempt to promote opposing climate change fears during the last 100 years.”
Needless to say, Inhofe probably doesn’t get a card from Al Gore on Earth Day. But he is too high profile for the global warming enthusiasts to ignore. Journalist and environmental crusader Mark Hertsgaard is ambushing Inhofe and others that share ‘anti-scientific’ views.
In The Nation, Hertsgaard writes:
“Our plan is to confront the climate cranks face to face, on camera, and call them to account for the dangers they have set in motion.”
Well, I don’t think this is what Hertsgaard had in mind….
UPDATE: Apparently Hertsgaard wasn’t too pleased with the result. You can see his own (highly edited) version of the ambush below:
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That video is incredible. Hertsgaard uses every trick in the book in an attempt to embarrass Inhofe but he remains calm and gives an articulate response. If the goal was to expose Inhofe as a quack, it was an absolute failure.
I actually felt sympathetic for the two young girls that Hertsgaard brought along with him. Not only were they completely out of their league, but they really seemed brainwashed.
Agreed. The best line was when the first girl said she was speaking on behalf of the young people and Inhofe told her she didn’t.
But wait, there’s more. We need to ask if the ‘ambusher’ can take what he dishes out. Please see: “Global Warming Alarmist ambushes Sen. Inhofe – can the alarmist withstand a congressional ambush on him?” http://www.redstate.com/russellc/2011/02/16/global-warming-alarmist-ambushes-sen-inhofe-can-the-alarmist-withstand-a-congressional-ambush-on-him/
Excerpt: “There is a bigger problem for Hertsgaard, when we reword a biblical phrase to say, ‘let he who is above reproach cast the first interrogation’. Enviro-activists like him have long made unsupportable accusations. What happens when the tables are turned, with hard scrutiny of those accusations? Hertsgaard unwittingly opens the door to a Pandora’s box of interrogation aimed at him and many others who have portrayed skeptic scientists as corrupted by big oil interests.”