Video: Senate Environment Committee chair says global warming is media hysteria
David Edwards
Published: Saturday September 30, 2006
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Video_Environment_Cmte_Chair_says_global_0930.htmlGlobal warming is a myth created by media hysteria, says Senator James Inhofe (R-OK). Inhofe, who is Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, went on Fox News to counter the "lies" told by most of the media.
Inhofe said that Fox News "is the exception" to the media, which is spreading the myth of global warming.
A transcript follows the video.
HOST: You recently did give a speech about this. Tell us where you stand. Do you think that global warming exists?
MR. INHOFE: Yeah, well, first of all, the earth's temperature is warming right now but, I believe, from natural causes. The hype in the media is just -- you guys Fox News, you're just really the exception -- but the speech I made, the eighth speech I made on this subject on the floor on Monday concentrated on just the media and how they're distorting this thing. You have got to keep in mind, you guys, how back in the turn of the century, starting about 1900, back then they said, "well, we got a cooling period that's coming up, an ice age. We're all going to die." Then they went into the 1930's and they said, "it's global warming." Then they went into the 1950 and they said it's... So, it's always been hysteria and now we look at it and see that the preponderance of the scientific evidence, since 1999, has actually, has refuted many of the things that they are saying right now in terms of human or green house gasses causing global warming.
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HOST: And the thing that is difficult is that a lot of people signed on to it but aren't following it either. So, there is a big debate about that. Let me ask you this. Are we as a country, as a nation, doing better trying to see, you know, what we do could adversely effect the planet or are we moving in the right direction when it come to making sure that we aren't unnecessarily destroying the planet.
MR. INHOFE: Yeah, well, we really are. This president, president Bush, has an initiative that far exceeds what anyone else has done. It would be a mandated 70% reduction in socs(sic), noc(sic), mercury, things that are pollutants. Keep in mind, and CO2 is not a pollutant. So, we are doing it. So, we are doing it. It's a success story since the Clean Air Act of 1970. And in spite of the fact that we have twice as many cars, twice as many in the population, our air is much cleaner. It is a success story. And those who don't want it to be told are the one who are saying, "Ah, we have global warming." This is something that people, you know, politicians are afraid to talk about. Just because of the huge amounts of money that the far-left environmentalists pour into campaigns.
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