The Oklahoman put out an editorial today supporting U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe's increasingly marginalized stance that climate change isn't the result of human emissions of heat-trapping gases.
Inhofe says 650 scientists support his theories, which go against the global scientific community and United Nations reports. As Grist points out, Inhofe has a history of reshaping the climate change debate by tricking the media into ignoring sound science:
The Oklahoman (which, for point of disclosure, is my former employer) ends its editorial with a question:Deniers like Inhofe have a serious media problem -- an ever growing number of studies, real-world observations, and credible scientific bodies all point to human-caused emissions as the increasingly dominant cause of planetary warming and dangerous climate change.
What's a denier to do? The answer is simple: Repackage previously debunked disinformation, release it as a "new" so-called "Full Senate Report" full of hysterical headlines, push it through right-wing news outlets, and hope the traditional media bites. Why not? It worked before.
With at least 58 Democratic senators, will Obama try to ratify the job-killing Kyoto global warming treaty?He might, which makes it good to know Jim Inhofe will be waiting and ready.
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thanks for highlighting this editorial -- i saw it yesterday and found the info on grist about how many of the folk on inhofe's list are bogus -- some have asked their names be removed from the list and yet those names remain on the list. my question -- why doesn't the oklahoman investigate inhofe's list with the same kind of quality journalist standards as grist? are they just that biased on inhofe's behalf?
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