Climate Change Denier Inhofe Says Monster Tornado 'Hard to Explain'

[dzika]

Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe (R), who maintains that global warming is a hoax created by former Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations, said on Tuesday that it was "hard to explain" why Monday's tornado was "so much worse."

Video at link...

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/climate-change-denier-inhofe-says-monster-to

[hatrack]

1. No, Jimbo, not hard to explain at all . . . .

Asshole.

[ananda]

5. OK, I just have to laugh.

I can't help myself. What an eejit!

[CurtEastPoint]

2. The Brain Dead also looks like the Walking Dead.

What a shameful POS

[lovuian]

3. He got a WAKE UP CALL

these tornadoes and winds are going to get worse folks

[AverageJoe90]

31. Maybe, maybe not.

Though one graph I've seen indicated that there may have been FEWER strong & violent tornadoes since the end of the '70s.....I'll try to see if I can dig it up sometime.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. No, it's not. Just ask RW preacher, John McTernan. It's "God systematically

destroying America" for not heeding his wishes. That was his explanation for Hurricane Sandy.

[LiberalFighter]

12. Yep

Systematically doing it in the same areas over and over. Especially in the Bible Belt areas to get rid of the believers.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

6. Taking lessons from Billo, I see.

"Tides go in. Tides go out. You can't explain that."

[ProdigalJunkMail]

7. while this storm was devastating due to where and when it hit

it wasn't all that unusual. it was an EF4... not even the highest category. there is nothing TO explain.

sP

[Wednesdays]

17. I'm sure that comes as a relief to the thousands who lost homes

Including many whose property has only a foundation slab left.

I live 11 miles from the storm track, and I can see this one was every bit as bad as the 1999 tornado that took almost a perfectly identical path, and probably even worse. The f4 rating is just preliminary. When you have neighborhoods wiped clean of EVERYTHING, you're looking at a probable f5 event.

Edit: yesterday's tornado has just now been officially rated an f5.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

22. fine it's an EF5...

they happen every year... this one just happened to hit a heavily populated area.

what in my post lead you to believe that I have no sympathy for those with losses? all I am saying is that the storm is NOT out of the norm other than where it hit. there is no need to 'explain' an EF5 tornado... they happen.

now, go read something into someone else's post.

sP

[Kelvin Mace]

37. I don't think the poster is dismissing

the suffering and damage, he is just pointing out that you can't single out one event and say, "Yep, global climate change".

Now, when the number of F4 and F5 tornadoes occurring each season increases, you begin to have a case. Let us not fall into the bad science practices of our opponents.

[Shrek]

20. Exactly

I've lived in Kansas for 50 years.

Unusual would be a spring without tornadoes or other damaging weather.

[AverageJoe90]

32. And yet, some people INSIST that this particular event was SURELY connected to climate change.......

Even though there's no evidence to support that conclusion right now. I tell you, man, people on both sides can be real ignorant sometimes.....

[jpak]

38. Ummm...it was EF5

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57585572/oklahoma-tornados-strength-upgraded-to-rare-ef5/

Try again

yup

[ProdigalJunkMail]

40. um...don't bother to read the TIMESTAMP on the post

since at the time of the post the preliminary estimate was EF4...

try again...

sP

OnEdit : unless you are trying to say that an EF5 is somehow worthy of explanation attempts... in which case your post is still a failure of logic since they, too, happen every year.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

42. what? you don't want to come back and apologize for making unfounded statements?

hmmmm...

maybe time is a problem for you?

sP

[Ganja Ninja]

8. There's a simple rule when assigning blame in the Republican Party.

If it's something a Republican did then blame it on the media.
If it's a so called act of God blame it on the gays.

[geek tragedy]

9. Benghazi!!! nt

[hatrack]

11. Of COURSE! How could I forget?!?!?

[jessie04]

13. Exactly. nt

[Cooley Hurd]

10. Anyone who is THIS BAD as a pilot...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhofe#Misconduct_while_piloting_an_aircraft_in_2010

...should be immediately disqualified as a Senator.

There were HUGE "X"'s on the runway, yet this inept tool decided to drop his aircraft into it because he felt he couldn't be inconvenienced by driving a few extra miles to his destination. He gives ALL pilots a bad name.

[MindPilot]

27. How does anyone that dumb get a pilot's license?

Maybe if you're a senator you don't actually have to prove to the FAA that you know anything.

[Cooley Hurd]

28. All he has to do is prove he's physically fit to fly...

...MENTALLY fit is a whole other ball of wax.

[AverageJoe90]

33. In fact, how does he even get to DRIVE, for that matter? n/t

[SummerSnow]

14. Senator..no need to be puzzled....

just ask Sarah Palin. She posted on her Facebook page over the weekend that climate change doesn't exist cause it snowed in Alaska during May. She was adamant about it when she said ' climate change my ass.



Sister Sarah has all the answers senator

[AverageJoe90]

35. Palin's an idiot, no doubt(u betcha!).

So, too, however, are many of those who jump at every bad weather event and automatically blame it on climate change.....

[Shrike47]

15. God keeps telling the Midwest to vote Dem, but do they listen?

Why doesn't the senator just listen for a change?

[jessie04]

16. The ultimate Neanderthal .

Dumbshit.

[spanone]

18. it's sad that someone with so little comprehension of science and facts can become a U.S. senator

[KansDem]

29. He also sits on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works

Environmental issues Inhofe, former chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, does not believe that human activities cause climate change.[32] In The Republican War on Science, Chris Mooney stated that Inhofe "politicizes and misuses the science of climate change".[33] On the other hand, Inhofe's view on climate change have been praised by Australian geophysicist and climate change skeptic Bob Carter, who says that Inhofe "has been instrumental in making sure that some of the other side of the story on climate change remains in the public domain."[34]

Inhofe often repeats his claim that human influenced climate change is a hoax and impossible because “God’s still up there.” and that it is “outrageous” and arrogant for people to believe human beings are “able to change what He is doing in the climate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Inhofe

[RainDog]

45. someone this stupid gets elected by people

who vote for his stupid ass.

people who think it's more important to build a football stadium than to build storm shelters for children.

so, really, we should be asking people why they insist on electing such idiots and making such bad decisions for their own and others' well being.

[reformist2]

19. What would happen to a Repug if he even hinted it *might* be due to climate change?

[winter is coming]

21. "Hard to explain without alienating my campaign donors" != "hard to explain". n/t

[Arugula Latte]

23. Rightwing logic:

It's not climate change, and God didn't do it. However, if a person or a dog gets pulled out of wreckage, that's God's doing, and we should all pray to this god, (even though a supposedly benevolent omnipotent deity wouldn't have caused or allowed this thing in the first place -- Shhhh!). However, when bad things happen to bad liberal and coastal areas, it IS God's doing, and He is punishing the godless, the gays, and the abortionists.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

24. After all, Oklahoma loves Jeebus and Republicans

That's what he's really wrestling with here, folks.

[SidDithers]

25. ...

Sid

[CatWoman]

26. I saw him this morning on Morning Joe

he found a picture in his son's yard that had traveled 80 miles all the way from Shawnee, after a tornado hit that city on Sunday.


http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3036789/ns/msnbc-morning_joe/vp/51048281#51950090

[AverageJoe90]

30. Does Inhofe not know of this thing called "tornado season"?(And about the twister......)

This is a guy who probably thinks that Gaawwwdd's hannnd is behind every little storm and shower there is in the world.

Jimmy boy, this tornado isn't hard to explain; it's May. Tornado season. And sometimes, big tornadoes DO happen in Oklahoma.

And by the way, one thing I should point out, though, is that though yesterday's tornado DID kill more people than the '99 tornado, the truth is, in many other respects, the May 3rd tornado was actually WORSE, including in intensity. And to be honest with you, I'm a little bothered by the hyperbole that the MSM engaged in while this whole thing: no, this was NOT the worst tornado ever recorded in American history, nor even that of the state of Oklahoma. It was bad, yes. Real bad. But not the worst, period.

Really wish the lamestream media would stop using so much hyperbole every time something like this happens.....frankly, not only is it a tad insensitive to those who suffered, but it's actually giving ammo to the deniers, including people like James Inhofe, too.

[Rhiannon12866]

34. That was one hell of a "hoax!"

[Zoeisright]

36. Yes, it is hard to explain.

If you're a FUCKING MORON.

[KinMd]

39. I guess Al Gore will stop at nothing to prove a point

[tanyev]

41. Well, you keep thinking about it, Senator Hoof In Mouth.

Try not to hurt yourself.

[IDemo]

43. "Senator" Inhofe

You can't explain that.

[niyad]

44. so true

[Solly Mack]

46. No kidding.