{"id":7209,"date":"2015-01-20T11:16:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T17:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7209"},"modified":"2015-01-20T11:16:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T17:16:42","slug":"inhofe-is-proof-that-conservatives-reject-and-despise-science-and-education-as-if-we-needed-more-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/inhofe-is-proof-that-conservatives-reject-and-despise-science-and-education-as-if-we-needed-more-proof\/","title":{"rendered":"Inhofe is proof that Conservatives reject and despise science and education (as if we needed more proof)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eugene Robinson: Republicans are stubbornly blocking the road on climate – The Washington Post<\/a> <\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 7: Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) holds a telephone conference with reporters in his office on Capitol Hill on January 7, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik\/For The Washington Post) <\/p>\n

\"Eugene<\/a> <\/p>\n

By Eugene Robinson<\/a> Opinion writer January 19 at 6:59 PM <\/p>\n

\u201cHold on a minute,\u201d I hear someone objecting. \u201cI seem to recall that last winter featured the dreaded polar vortex, which brought frigid arctic air to much of the United States. Some warming!\u201d <\/p>\n

Is that you, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), new chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee and the Senate\u2019s point man on climate change? Let me try to put this in a way you might understand: The planet we live on is really, really big \u2014 so big that when it\u2019s cold in our country, which covers only a small percentage of Earth\u2019s surface, it can be hot in other places. At the very same time! <\/p>\n

Okay, I\u2019m being somewhat unfair. Inhofe actually reacted to the news of 2014\u2019s record heat by calling the reported increase tiny and meaningless. But his long-held position is not that climate change is overblown or misinterpreted or poorly understood but that it is actually a \u201choax\u201d and a \u201cconspiracy.\u201d He wrote a book<\/a> taking this stance. At times, he has claimed that global warming, if it were indeed taking place, would be a good thing. And he has scoffed at the notion that humans could ever have such a massive impact on God\u2019s immense creation. <\/p>\n

Let me repeat: This is the man whose task is to lead the U.S. Senate in setting environmental policy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Eugene Robinson: Republicans are stubbornly blocking the road on climate – The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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