How effed up ARE we when we can't appreciate Obama? Well according to Canadians....

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93. I saw that on Bill Maher. I responded thusly...

WHAT THE HOLY FUCK!

FactCheck: Bush made change to "climate change," not Obama
Inhofe writes on p. 85, that after a series of blizzards in 2010, Al Gore commented, "Just as it's important not to miss the forest for the trees, neither should we miss the climate for the snowstorm." Inhofe adds, "The American people were suspicious to say the least, especially when they noticed a deliberate shift in terms over this period from catastrophic 'global warming' to 'climate change.'" Inhofe implies that the Obama administration made this rhetorical switch around 2009, in the post-Bush era. Is that true?
No, it's not; the switch was made during the Bush presidency. Our staffer, Jesse Gordon, worked as an EPA contractor in 2001-03, preparing content for the epa.gov website. Gordon reports, "During that period, word came down from EPA to change all instances of the term 'global warming' to 'climate change.'" That timing means that the Bush administration changed the rule from that of the Clinton administration; Obama & Gore had nothing to do with it, so Inhofe's implication is incorrect.

Source: OnTheIssues FactCheck on The Greatest Hoax, by James Inhofe , Feb 28, 2012




Stop cap-and-trade from getting in via regulatory back door
Even though global warming hysteria and cap and trade are long dead, the fight is far from over because President Obama is now moving forward with a plan to achieve through regulation what could not be achieved through legislation. In December of 2009, the Obama EPA issued what it called the "endangerment finding"--a finding that greenhouse gases harm public health and welfare. Armed with this "finding" the EPA is planning to regulate greenhouse gases instead through the Clean Air Act, which was never meant to regulate carbon. Like cap and trade, this plan will have the same $300-$400 billion pricetag, it will put the same amount of jobs in jeopardy, and it will cause the same amount of havoc for our economy. My fight today is to stop them from achieving this cap and trade agenda through the back door.
Source: The Greatest Hoax, by James Inhofe, p. ix , Feb 28, 2012




Restricting fossil fuels will not spur shift to other energy
Under cap and trade, each regulated entity may only emit a certain amount of carbon, and if it exceeds that limit, it can buy credits from other entities that are not exceeding their limits. Of course, higher emitting entities such as coal-fired power plants, would have to purchase a large number of credits to continue business as usual.
Of course, the philosophy behind cap and trade is that if we restrict enough supply of fossil fuels, the price will increase, and we can then simply shift to less costly alternatives. Yet this is wishful thinking. Alternatives are fine, but in most cases, they aren't widely available or commercially viable yet--certainly not in a form that can efficiently, affordably, and reliably meet our existing energy needs. How are we supposed to run this machine called America without proven and reliable sources such as oil, coal, and natural gas? The answer is we can't.

Source: The Greatest Hoax, by James Inhofe, p. 47 , Feb 28, 2012




God promised to maintain cold & hot seasons
I take my religion seriously--I always say I'm a Jesus guy--so why wasn't I buying into what evangelists such as Rev. Richard Cizik were saying? Cizik was being sponsored by many environmentalist groups who were pushing the idea that evangelicals were on board with global warming hysteria.
Many times during my global warming fight, I turned to Day 36 of "Promises" which features one of my favorite Bible verses, Genesis 8:22:
As long as the earth remains
There will be springtime and harvest,
Cold and heat, winter and summer,
Day and night.And this is what a lot of alarmists forget: God is still up there, and He promised to maintain the seasons and that cold and heat would never cease as long as the earth remains.
Source: The Greatest Hoax, by James Inhofe, p. 68-71 , Feb 28, 2012

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