User:Sagredo/J. I.

Environmental issues

Inhofe believes "that too many times current environmental regulations are not based on science. As a result, they usually do harm and put undue restrictions upon the freedoms of many Americans. ...poorly designed environmental regulations have been a large contributor to the energy problems we now face. If we rethink environmental regulation, we could be in a better position in the future and find ourselves in a place where we can have far greater environmental protection, more reliable and diverse energy sources and a strong economy."

Inhofe, former chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, was given the lowest possible score on environmental issues by the League of Conservation Voters in 2006.

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Inhofe believes that global warming is a hoax." However 76 out of 79 of climatologists believe that mean global temperatures have risen compared to pre-1800s levels, and 75 out of 77 believe that human activity is a significant factor in changing mean global temperatures, according to apoll performed by Peter Doran and Maggie Kendall Zimmerman at Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago

Inhofe has a history of making inflammatory and incorrect claims about the science of climate change, according to climate scientists Michael Mann, Stefan Rahmstorf, Gavin Schmidt, Eric Steig, and William Connolley.

(Rationale: This does accurately describe the situation. The statement is made by notable climate scientists. Yes, it is a blog. Yes, WP:BLP does not allow blogs, but this is a time to Ignore the rules, because the alternative is to list many of Inhofe's inflammatory and incorrect claims and refute them one by one.)

Inhofe has been fighting for years against the growing body of science that human activity causes climate change.

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Global Warming

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In The Republican War on Science, Chris Mooney stated that Inhofe "politicizes and misuses the science of climate change" while in the UK, Johann Hari stated that Inhofe's statements have been "repudiated" by "even the handful of contrarian scientists Inhofe constantly cites."

In a July 28, 2003, Senate speech, Inhofe stated that "compelling evidence that catastrophic global warming is a hoax. That conclusion is supported by the painstaking work of the nation's top climate scientists." He cited as support for this the 1992 Heidelberg Appeal and the Oregon Petition (1999), as well the opinions of individual scientists that he named. In his speech, Inhofe also said that, "satellite data, confirmed by NOAA balloon measurements, confirms that no meaningful warming has occurred over the last century." However the satellite temperature record corroborates the well-documented warming trend noted in surface temperature measurements.

In a 2006 interview with the Tulsa World newspaper, Inhofe said regarding the environmentalist movement, "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." Inhofe had previously compared the United States Environmental Protection Agency to the Gestapo and he compared EPA Administrator Carol Browner to Tokyo Rose. Inhofe had previously stated that Global Warming is "the second-largest hoax ever played on the American people, after the separation of church and state." Inhofe, citing uncertainties related to climate science and the adverse impact that mandatory emissions reductions would have on the U.S. economy, voted on June 22, 2005 to reject an amendment to an energy bill that would have forced reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases and created a mandatory emissions trading scheme.

Inhofe has similarly criticized predictions of ozone depletion, particularly in relation to the Arctic.

In 2006, Inhofe gave a speech in the Senate in which he argued that the threat of global warming was exaggerated by "the media, Hollywood elites and our pop culture." Inhofe asserted that "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." He also accused the media of ignoring scientists such as Roger A. Pielke and William Gray who, Inhofe asserts, disagree with global warming.

In 2006, Inhofe introduced Senate Amendment 4682 with Kit Bond (R-MO). This bill would have modified oversight responsibility of the Army Corps of Engineers. According to the League of Conservation Voters, a political advocacy organization, analyses for Corps projects "have been manipulated to favor large-scale projects that harm the environment." During the 109th Congress, Inhofe voted to increase offshore oil drilling, to include provisions for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the House Budget Amendment, and to deny funding for both low-income energy assistance and environmental stewardship, citing heavy costs and unproven programs. As of 2006, the League of Conservation Voters has given Inhofe the lowest possible score on environmental issues.