#James Inhofe

[contemplatingoutlander]

Interesting proposal by Nate Loewentheil in a guest column in The New York Times. Not only was his proposal thought provoking, but two of the comments regarding it by readers were also worth contemplating. Below are some excerpts from the column, followed by the two comments.

Here is a proposal for the environmental movement: Pool philanthropic funds for a day, buy a small plot of land in Washington, D.C., and put up a tall marble wall to serve as a climate memorial. Carve on this memorial the names of public figures actively denying the existence of climate change. Carve the names so deep and large, our grandchildren and great-grandchildren need not search the archives. This is not a metaphor. The problem with climate change is the disconnect between action and impact. If politicians vote against construction standards and a school collapses, the next election will be their last. But with climate change, cause and effect are at a vast distance. We are already seeing the consequences of our past and present greenhouse gas emissions. In coming decades, those emissions will wreak their full havoc on the climate, and it will take hundreds, possibly thousands, of years for those pollutants to fully dissipate. But in the short term, the most immediate burdens are borne mostly by the poor in America and distant people in distant lands. Misaligned incentives are at the heart of why some political and business leaders deny and delay. [...] I would first nominate those who have sown confusion over climate science, like Myron Ebell, who recently retired as director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment, where he sought to block climate change efforts in Congress, and served as the head of Donald Trump’s transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Ebell has argued that the idea that climate change is “an existential threat or even crisis is preposterous.” Then there are lawmakers who have consistently stood in the way of federal action, like the recently retired senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the author of the book “The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future.” [color emphasis added]

Below is the first thought provoking comment to this article:

There is, in Iceland, a memorial to a dead glacier - the Ok Glacier. It reads: "Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it." [color emphasis added] --Chris D., Colorado

Photo of the plaque at the at the Okjökull (OK Glacier) memorial.

Here is the second thought provoking comment to this article:

For reference this graph https://i.redd.it/ljifc828iui31.jpg is from the Exxon internal scientific report on climate change, 1982, produced by scientists working for that fossil fuel corporation. Look at what their graph predicted for 2020. Approaching 420 ppm CO2 and a rise of 1.2 C degrees above pre-industrial temperature - very close to what we actually got in 2020. Then look at what the graph shows for later this century, based on not reducing emissions. Very serious temperature rises, that could make agriculture very difficult in many countries. Yes, and then Exxon, having seen this, got involved in PR campaigns to "cast doubt" on climate science, to protect their assets. [color emphasis added] --Erik Frederiksen, Ashville, NC

1982 Exxon graph depicting average global temperature increases over time correlating with increases in atmospheric CO2. NOTE: Graph color was modified for greater clarity.

Fossil fuel companies like Exxon, and fossil fuel oligarchs like the Koch brothers should be included in any "Climate Wall of Shame."

[tomorrowusa]

Republicans keep writing nominally non-fiction books which truly belong in the fiction section. And those books end up not doing well like the Tucker Carlson biography.

GOP former Senator James Inhofe from the oil state of Oklahoma actually did write the 2012 book depicted in the cartoon by Bruce Plante. As a shill for fossil fuel barons he was one of the leading climate deniers on Capitol Hill. He once drew attention to himself by bringing a snowball to the Senate chamber to prove there was no global warming.

Being a typical Republican ignoramus, Inhofe doesn't understand that it snows more when the temperature is close to freezing than when it is well below freezing; the colder it gets, the less moisture there is in the air for precipitation. This is something understood by almost any observant person from the north of the US. Republicans may regard physics as too "woke" for them.

Be prepared to hear more climate denial during the GOP debate on Wednesday as most of the candidates attempt to out-Trump Trump.

Let Republicans return to power and you can kiss this planet good-bye.

[calicojack1718]

Election 2024: The Motivations of the Press and Democrats Behind the Biden So Old Drama

The Biden so old thing seems like its never going away and is in danger of becoming the James Comey moment of the election. Why won't the press and Democrats drop it when it can only help Trump, literally, destroy the world?

SUMMARY: The Biden so Old election controversy features intriguing motivations of the participants in this unprecedented political situation. Unpacking the motivations behind this clash and the media drama that ensued, this post offers a comprehensive analysis of the reason the FOR PROFIT political media have been writing multiple daily stories about it, and the Democrats who feel compelled to…

[peterfeld]

RIP, imbecile.

(above from 2011)

Climate change bites back! Idiot global-warming denier Sen. James Inhofe “contracted a respiratory illness” after swimming in Grand Lake, Oklahoma, where “sustained high temperatures” have caused “a bloom of toxic blue-green algae.”

[maeamian]

Dipshit down!!!

[rrrick]

I’ll bet he’s going somewhere hot

[sophieinwonderland]

>"hey, coming from an endogenic system, could you possibly tone down the invasion of the anti endo tags? i think it's a bit much and it reflects poorly on the endo community. thanks :3"

I used to be pro-separate spaces like you (and actively went around asking both sides to stop invading), but then I took transphobia and anti-science to the knee.

I have found conservative spaces where people were transphobic, conspiracy theorists, and LITERALLY mocked peer-reviewed scientific literature that proved them factually wrong (imagine being so full of hate you mock scientists that spend decades of their life studying something, and think politicians like James Inhofe and his snowball are more credible). Instead of people thinking they obviously sound like stupid and hateful little kids that have no idea how reality and science works, their immature and bigoted comments received dozens of upvotes.

I have followed syscourse for a long time, and anti-endos these days are more often than not acting the same way as them, even if they do sometimes use different terminology. Both groups are dangerous to traumatized individuals and systems, and their anti-science rhetoric threatens actual lives (like anti-vaxxers, or claiming that alters are inherently evil and final fusion is the only possible way to recover from trauma, to provide some examples) and undermines the credibility of science.

None of these people deserve a safe space.

This!

I really feel, at this point, that if people don't see the parallels between anti-endo and conservative talking points, they aren't paying attention. I mean, the recent accusations of "grooming" people to be systems is ripped straight from queerphobic rhetoric the Right uses, claiming people are "groomed" to be gay or "groomed to be trans, to associate LGBT people with child abuse.

These are literally the same exact arguments repackaged for a different outgroup!

And it just feels like ignoring it only allows the problem to grow and for this bigotry to further take root!

[meret118]

— The fossil fuel industry is apparently paying off Republicans — in a practice legalized by Republicans on the Supreme Court — to make sure Congress never passes legislation to hold them accountable for all the death and destruction they’ve caused by lying about climate change for the past 50 years.

Here, for example, are the biggest recipients of their largesse, according to OpenSecrets: Romney, Mitt (R-UT) $8,291,262; Cornyn, John (R-TX) $4,678,062; Cruz, Ted (R-TX) $4,138,421; McConnell, Mitch (R-KY) $2,852,107; McCarthy, Kevin (R-CA) $2,581,832; Hutchison, Kay Bailey (R-TX) $2,332,021; Inhofe, James M (R-OK) $2,320,139; Pearce, Steve (R-NM) $2,236,714; Barton, Joe (R-TX) $2,211,987; Brady, Kevin (R-TX) $2,087,396; Scalise, Steve (R-LA) $1,847,013; Murkowski, Lisa (R-AK) $1,792,602. If you haven’t yet noticed the trend, just check out the party affiliation of each…

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Without telling us, so far as I can tell, Bloomberg is reporting that the FBI (and the DHS more generally) stopped seriously monitoring and infiltrating violent white supremacist groups two years ago, around the time they were being trashed for such investigations by sedition-, Putin-, and Trump-loving Republicans in the House. The pressure seems to have worked.

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Putin’s internet trolls, operating with huge budgets and the resources of the Russian state behind them, have since become a major force on the top social media sites, and both X and Meta are no longer suppressing their lies and attacks on democracy. Is it fossil fuel billionaires or social media billionaires who are the greatest threat to the future of world peace and democracy? Hard to choose…

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Greedy insurer interrupts cancer surgery in shocking mid-procedure call... Dr. Elisabeth Potter was in the middle of surgery on a breast cancer patient when a nurse ran into the operating theater to say that UnitedHealthcare was on the phone demanding to speak with her. She interrupted the surgery, leaving the unconscious patient whose chest was cut open on the table, to take the call. Here’s her story in her own words, as she told it on Instagram and later confirmed with Newsweek:

“So, I scrubbed out of my case and I called UnitedHealthcare, and the gentleman said he needed some information about her. Wanted to know her diagnosis and whether her inpatient stay should be justified. And I was like, ‘Do you understand this? She's asleep right now and she has breast cancer?’ And the gentleman said, ‘Actually, I don’t — that’s a different department that would know that information.’ And I was like, ‘Well, she does need to stay overnight tonight, and you have all the information with you because I got approval for this surgery, and I need to go back and be with my patient now.’ But, yeah, it’s out of control. Insurance is out of control. I have no other words.”

Indiana Republicans want to threaten rape victims with felonies if they try to get an abortion. Over at her brilliant “Abortion Every Day” substack newsletter, Jessica Valenti tells us that Indiana State Senator Mike Young has proposed legislation that would subject a woman in that state to 2.5 years in prison if she were to claim rape to get an abortion (about the only way to get an abortion in Indiana, unless your life is in danger) and then can’t subsequently prove to the satisfaction of the state’s GOP that she was actually raped. The bill also makes it a crime to possess the abortion drug mifepristone, evoking the possibility of midnight raids with Indiana police kicking in the doors of women who Indiana Republicans think may have purchased the drug from an online telehealth physician. Freedumb!!

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But consider this story from Newsweek titled “Trump Organization Accused of Tax Evasion in Panama.” Just like the way he scammed New York State out of tax dollars (for which he was adjudicated and sentenced last year) his failed hotel in Panama hadn’t been paying its taxes either. Trump’s involved in a huge lawsuit down their right now, and some speculate that toppling the Panamanian government might work out well for his personal interests. Keep an eye on this one!

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

"Everything You Need to Know About Project 2025's Plan for the EPA"

"That woman watching James Inhofe hold a snowball on the floor of Congress to “disprove” global warming?

That’s the lead author of #Project2025’s section on destroying the EPA.

Great catch by @amywestervelt . Read more here"

--- Jamie Henn @jamieclimate Director, Fossil Free Media

[automatismoateo]

Sen. James Inhofe longtime anti-LGBTQ foe is dead | Inhofe was among a group elected evangelical officials pledged to erecting a Christian Nationalist state. via /r/atheism

Sen. James Inhofe, longtime anti-LGBTQ+ foe, is dead | Inhofe was among a group elected evangelical officials pledged to erecting a Christian Nationalist state. https://ift.tt/1HPoK4O Submitted July 10, 2024 at 12:53AM by crustose_lichen (From Reddit https://ift.tt/xEHvOYf)

[isfeed]

James M. Inhofe, Senator Who Denied Climate Change, Dies at 89

An Oklahoma Republican who led the Environment Committee, he took hard-right stands on many issues but was especially vocal in challenging evidence of global warming. Source: New York Times James M. Inhofe, Senator Who Denied Climate Change, Dies at 89

[the-sayuri-rin]

An Oklahoma Republican who led the Environment Committee, he took hard-right stands on many issues but was especially vocal in challenging evidence of global warming.