Ownerific quote IV

cite as: F. Bi. 2009. Ownerific quote IV. Intl. J. Inact., 2:22

John Mashey, commenting on US Senator and global warming inactivist James “we’re not paid enough” Inhofe, and his assistant Marc Morano:

[...] I think that at some point [...] the State Formerly Known as Oklahoma can be renamed The Senator Inhofe Memorial Dustbowl, as it returns ~permanently (in human terms) to the 1930s.

But this time, instead of being caused by (fixable) local dumb-farming/ranching practices, it will be the Northward migration of rain from the Hadley Cell effects, not easily fixed. Weather will vary randomly as always, but over time, there will be less water [...] I’d guess that farming/ranching will pretty much disappear, leaving mostly oil&gas, i.,e., a little more like Saudi Arabia. [...]

Oklahoma City might be renamed Morano City.

Senator Inhofe is not getting paid enough for this junk!

cite as: F. Bi. 2009. Senator Inhofe is not getting paid enough for this junk! Intl. J. Inact., 2:9–10

Michael Tobis says,

The [global warming] conspiracy theorists put that [$200 million dollars spent on climate science] up against some tens of millions spent by the conspiracists’ PR arm, but that is unfair. They claim to be outspent 5 to 1, but the $200 mn actually goes to people doing science, not to people doing outreach. The main outreach efforts from the climate science community are unfunded (RC [RealClimate], blogs, public talks typefied by Hansen’s). [...] So the climate science community has unpaid, untrained volunteers telling the truth while the bad guys have tens of millions for PR professionals.

One might have hoped for a change recently with the unveiling of Gore’s “We” campaign, but I am sorry to say it strikes me as oblivious to the playing field and woefully incompetent.

Listen to Morano at the “2008 International Conference on Climate Change” whinging about how Inhofe isn’t getting paid enough by oil companies (!) (360KB, 2′ MP3). Source: extracted and re-coded from a video from the Heartland Institute web site.

What’s more, the “bad guys” — the climate inactivists — fail to include the money that’s spent in the upkeep of the US Senate Committee of Environment and Public Works’s web server (epw.senate.gov). Now, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) and his sidekick Marc Morano see fit to use this public server as a vehicle to propagate inactivist propaganda opinion pieces, to the point of cutting-and-pasting entire newspaper op-eds wholesale. Ordinarily such an act would be seen as a flagrant misuse of the taxpayer money that’s gone into maintaining the web server, but I guess there’s a special exception to this rule for Republican Senators.

In fact, Morano tells us that Inhofe actually deserves to be paid more for this junk! The logic is that, well, since the UN spends lots of money to fund such trivial pursuits as running climate models and surveying research literature, therefore Inhofe should be allowed to

• get more money from oil companies which goes directly into funding his own campaigns, and then
• use public resources — funded not by Inhofe or Big Oil, but by taxpayer money, your money — to cut-and-paste op-eds to please the oily interests!

That’s ‘balancing the debate’, my friends. Certainly, in this time of financial crisis, Inhofe’s commitment to protecting taxpayer money has never been greater.

Crapmill back in action on May Day

cite as: F. Bi. 2008. Crapmill back in action on May Day. Intl. J. Inact., 1:23–25

Well, understandably, the global warming inactivist blogosphere blogocave¹ has decided not to report on the “Heartland 500” fiasco at all. Instead, Anthony Watts and the folks at Jennifer Marohasy have quickly latched on to a new talking point, this time from US Senator James Inhofe regarding a Nature article. So I decided to ask them via blog comments why they weren’t talking about the Heartland list:

Dear Ms. Marohasy,

I deeply regret to observe that, despite your reporting of the “global cooling to 2015″ story, you have failed to make any mention in your blog of Heartland Institute’s recent list of scientists who have cast doubts on global warming. Here is a sample of the list, available via http://tinyurl.com/6zjxy4:

… Rahmstorf, Stefan, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany; Randall, David, A., NASA; Ratto, N., University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; [...lots more names...] Schilman, Bettina, Geological Survey of Israel; Schmidt, Gavin J., University of Virginia; Schmith, Torben, Danish Meteorological Institute; [...yet more names...] Tappa, Eric, University of South Carolina; Thomas, Chris D., University of Leeds; Thompson, L.G., Ohio State; …

http://tinyurl.com/6zjxy4

As a concerned citizen and defender of freedom and all that it stands for, I have a few questions I need to ask. May I know why you are being silent on the Heartland 500 list, and the oppression from the scientific inquisiton against the academics that are mentioned on the list? Has your good self been intimidated by the forces of the Left into keeping quiet as well? Is your blog now selling out to the freedom-destroying agenda of Al Gore?

I would appreciate it if you can offer me answers to my humble questions. Thank you.

– Frank Bi, International Journal of Inactivism, http://frankbi.wordpress.com/

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