One Senator's Christmas Caca
by David Sassoon - Dec 21st, 2007
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Just in time for Christmas, arch-denialist Senator Inhofe has issued a new report questioning global warming science. You'd think at the yuletide he'd be offering the American public some freshly baked cookies. Not.
If you really want to pick through the good Senator's steaming offering, Adam Siegel has done the spadework for you here.
If you are in the mood to be charitable, you can go here and see how the NYT blog Dot Earth handled the chore.
The office of Senator James Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican and ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, released a report
online today listing hundreds of scientists and links to peer-reviewed studies that it says challenge whether humans are dangerously influencing climate.“This new ‘consensus busters’ report is poised to redefine the debate,” the news release said.
But when you sift through the studies, what emerges (to me at any rate) is not so much the shattering of a consensus as a portrait of one corner of the absolutely normal, and combative, arena in which scientific ideas emerge and either thrive or fade.
Wow is Andy Revkin ever into the Christmas spirit!
But before you go anywhere, be prepared. You can pick up a pair of knee-high Wellington boots here.
And here's a link to a giant scoop aluminum shovel for only $24.99.
Only four more shopping days to Christmas!
And hey, let's send the Senator our best cookies anyway. 'Tis the season to kill him with kindness.
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