Oklahoma’s Jim Inhofe throws a snowball in the Senate to throw cold water on global warming

How did Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe become so wise in the ways of science?

He produced a snowball on the floor of the Senate on Thursday. That’s it. The debate over global warming and climate change is done. Stick in a fork in it.

Yes, sir. The author of “The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens You Future” has discovered frozen water. Outside!

The Hill reports on this eureka moment:

“In case we have forgotten, because we keep hearing that 2014 has been the warmest year on record, I ask the chair, do you know what this is,” Inhofe said to Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who was presiding over the Senate’s debate, as he removed the snowball from a plastic bag.

“It’s a snowball. And it’s just from outside here. So it’s very, very cold out. Very unseasonable.”

He also said:

“We hear the perpetual headline that 2014 has been the warmest year on record,” he said, referring to a report last month from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

“But now the script has flipped,” he said .

Cold in February, who would have guessed?

He could have, of course, come to the Cascades in Washington, which often has the heaviest snowfall in the lower 48. He’d have a hard time making much of a snowball this winter. But he might be pleased to see all the daffodils and cherry blossoms out in Seattle — in February.

But that would be confusing weather with climate. And that would be wrong

from The Big Science Blog http://ift.tt/1EvwXt1

How did Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe become so wise in the ways of science?

He produced a snowball on the floor of the Senate on Thursday. That’s it. The debate over global warming and climate change is done. Stick in a fork in it.

Yes, sir. The author of “The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens You Future” has discovered frozen water. Outside!

The Hill reports on this eureka moment:

“In case we have forgotten, because we keep hearing that 2014 has been the warmest year on record, I ask the chair, do you know what this is,” Inhofe said to Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who was presiding over the Senate’s debate, as he removed the snowball from a plastic bag.

“It’s a snowball. And it’s just from outside here. So it’s very, very cold out. Very unseasonable.”

He also said:

“We hear the perpetual headline that 2014 has been the warmest year on record,” he said, referring to a report last month from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

“But now the script has flipped,” he said .

Cold in February, who would have guessed?

He could have, of course, come to the Cascades in Washington, which often has the heaviest snowfall in the lower 48. He’d have a hard time making much of a snowball this winter. But he might be pleased to see all the daffodils and cherry blossoms out in Seattle — in February.

But that would be confusing weather with climate. And that would be wrong

from The Big Science Blog http://ift.tt/1EvwXt1