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Sen. Inhofe offers heresy in a PC world
Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe stands out like a heretic in a world in which political correctness has become its own religion. One of the chief tenets of this new faith is that manmade global warming will be the ruination of us all. Inhofe is on a one man crusade to debunk the idea.
It doesn’t matter that the “global warming” vocabulary is subtly being switched to “climate change,” and for a very good reason. There is some question about how much, if any, the earth is still warming despite ever increasing carbon emissions.
Political correctness is not concerned with facts, only in agreeing with the majority. Louis Pasture had the same problem with the scientific community of his day who refused to look in their microscopes at smaller than the eye could see bacteria that were causing illnesses.
Inhofe says if Congress passes the “cap and trade” bill currently on the table the resulting tax increase will be astronomical. The kicker is, even if it is passed and implemented, reduction of carbon dioxide emissions would be infinitesimal.
Worse, passage would mean even more manufacturing jobs would go to Mexico, China and India where emissions restrictions are even less stringent than they are in the United States.
When cap and trade legislation first cleared the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this year, Sen. Inhofe was confident it would never make it through the Senate.
In December he is attending the United Nations conference on global warming in which, he says, other member nations will attempt to force America to join in an international treaty. He thinks this, too, will see defeat.
We hope his confidence is well founded and that one day global warming/climate change is seen for what it is — a politically correct and toothless bogeyman we don’t need to bankrupt ourselves over to fight.
— Loné Beasley
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Water is source of life
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Ten Commandments on trial again
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Obama an ideologue first, a politician second
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