PRESS RELEASE August 2, 2012
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Inhofe Exposes Another Epic Fail by Global Warming Alarmists
Photo Posted by KFOR and Think Progress
The dumpster fire that caused the melting lights
Photo Provided by KFOR
Link to Think Progress Blog Post
Link to Watts Up With That: Alarmist fact checking – street lights don’t melt at 115°F
Washington, D.C. – Today the far-left blog Think Progress posted a photo (originally posted on KFOR’s facebook page) of street lights in Oklahoma that had melted, they claimed, because of extreme heat. Global warming alarmist Bill McKibben took to Twitter immediately to publicize what he believed to be proof of global warming, tweeting to Senator James Inhofe (Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, “Senator Inhofe, God may be trying to get your attention. Check out this picture.”
Not long after the picture surfaced, Oklahomans posted comments on Think Progress’ blog saying that these lights had melted due to a fire – which makes sense considering that the two front lights were melted while the two back lights remained unscathed. Once this news came to light, Think Progress immediately removed the post and provided an update that reads: “After we published this piece, we saw reports from people on the ground in Stillwater that the melting streetlights were due to a nearby fire. The person who took the photo, Patrick Hunter, described the scene: ‘Being the person that actually took this photo, I’d say that this was due to a fire semi-close by coupled with the unbelievable heat we are experiencing.’ Still an amazing photo and not fake as many are saying on here. Enjoy!”
This afternoon, KFOR confirmed that the melted lights in the photo were not caused by hot temperatures but a nearby dumpster fire.
“Poor Bill McKibben – he’s been trying to get something to melt for ages but it keeps backfiring,” Senator Inhofe said. “These alarmists never learn their lesson. Remember Bill McKibben was the one who was going to melt a giant ice sculpture in the shape of the word ‘hoax’ on the national mall, but his group had to cancel because there wasn’t enough interest. Now, after proclaiming that street lights in Oklahoma are melting because of global warming, we have confirmation that a fire caused this scene.
“Amid the resurgence of hysteria from my friends on the left, I appreciated climatologist Dr. John Christy who testified this week before the Environment and Public Works committee saying that instead of proclaiming this summer is ‘what global warming looks like’ it is ‘scientifically more accurate to say that this is what Mother Nature looks like, since events even worse than these have happened in the past before greenhouse gases were increasing like they are today.’
“This isn’t the first time alarmists have tried these stunts and it certainly won’t be the last – when will they finally realize they’ve lost this debate?”
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An excellent example of confirmation bias in action.
“ericgrimsrud says:
August 2, 2012 at 9:12 pm
Reg, At my age I am no longer trying to “sell something” and realize that there are more important things that I can leave for my grandchildren than money. Why not have a go at my short course at ericgrimsrud.com – its free. Eric”
If you are not trying to sell something,go away.And if your course is soooooo great,why are you using your computer and inputting CO2 into our eco-system? Practice what you preach.
ericgrimsrud says:
August 2, 2012 at 9:12 pm
Reg, At my age I am no longer trying to “sell something” and realize that there are more important things that I can leave for my grandchildren than money. Why not have a go at my short course at ericgrimsrud.com – its free. Eric
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Eric, actually you are (trying to selling something). Did you not read your original post plugging your book? How is that not “selling something?
Dementia is a difficult thing thing to deal with I know. We went through this with my father. I hope you have a great support group and God bless you.
ericgrimsrud says (August 2, 2012 at 9:12 pm): “Why not have a go at my short course at ericgrimsrud.com – its free. Eric”
Did Bill McKibben take the class?
ericgrimsrud says:
August 2, 2012 at 9:12 pm
Reg, At my age I am no longer trying to “sell something” and realize that there are more important things that I can leave for my grandchildren than money. Why not have a go at my short course at ericgrimsrud.com – its free. Eric
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Well I waded through a couple of chapters and a couple of power points and I can say with some measure of confidence that you are charging a price commensurate with the quality of the material.
I love how the only things that never change are the deletion patterns of alarmists who always seem to get it wrong..
@ericgrimsgrud: “..At my age I am no longer trying to “sell something” and realize that there are more important things that I can leave for my grandchildren than money..”
How about leaving them your body? It’s chock-full of your precious carbon which should be released into the air when you’re cremated, or released into the soil if you’re buried, to be released into the air again eventually.
Wait for a few hours while the warmies sulk over being pwned — by Sunday, they’ll have forgotten all about it. But someone will post a pic of the toasted dumpster on Monday and McKibben will panic and scream it’s so hot that paint is blistering…
Eric P. Grimsrud says:
August 2, 2012 at 3:49 pm
Senator Inhofe, You have to be the most scientifically illiterate and brain-washed-with-oil excuse for Senator that the USA has ever seen.
A really “scientific” argument in the ad hominem genre.
I see your blog, if that is what it is, has 2 (yes TWO) comments, both by someone named “Priss.” surely a typo as presumably it should “Prissy!”
ericgrimsrud says:
August 2, 2012 at 9:06 pm
George, I also live in a fossil fuel state, Montana, but that does not mean I have to be brain-dead with respect to the harm CO2 emissions will be doing to our future generations. Eric
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Well, Eric- if you don’t have to be brain- dead, then which is it? Do you appear to us to be, or not to be (brain- dead)?
The global warming equivalent of the bleeding picture in the piece of toast.
Eric, from what I can see of the comments your posting got here, I think we’ve found a new measurement: the grimsrud. I’m not sure what that measurement actually applies to in AGW thought, but then, we’re never quite sure what thoughts, if any, go thru a True Believers’ mind.
Say, how about ignorance?
Inhofe initially went along with the warmist crowd, then boned up on the subject and changed his mind. That undermines your implication that his position is dictated by bias/vested interest.
NOAA seems to be a major source of misrepresentation, as though it falsified its data sets to generate graphs-to-order for stupid alarmism. A simplistic hypothesis, I know, but it seems to do pretty well as a predictor.
ericgrimsrud says:
August 2, 2012 at 9:06 pm
George, I also live in a fossil fuel state, Montana, but that does not mean I have to be brain-dead with respect to the harm CO2 emissions will be doing to our future generations. Eric
No but, evidently, it does help. I hope the dementia gets better.
If the temperature had been ten degrees lower that spontaneous combustion would only have occurred ten minutes later. If the temperature had been lower by the amount of rise attributable to global warming–a tenth of a degree–the spontaneous combustion would have occurred a second later.
With apologies to all the PhD’s here, I have a farm neighbour and ex-bull rider with 4 brothers and two sisters with PhD’s and he always calls them “Piled Higher and Deeper”. Somehow whenever I see some of the reports coming out the University of Colorado/Boulder and others these days, I can’t help but think of that phrase.
A cynic would wonder if Senator Inhofe is protecting his campaign funding by promoting an anti-cAGW agenda in the Senate, since his most generous supporters are the Koch brothers.
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00005582&cycle=2012
Dear Eric,
you obviously care deeply about the ‘AGW issue’- however, in order to be taken seriously, perhaps you should care a bit more & correct the sloppy grammar on the first page of your pre-determined polemic. Sloppiness pervades the AWG landscape doesn’t it?
“We are now live in critical moment in the history of human civilization and have a choice of monumental importance to make”
Further, is it not a basic requirement -indeed professional- to cite references for all your
assertions? I assume these are to be found in the power-point presentation? I would have liked seeing something in the intro to give me confidence that you actually know what you are banging on about, & not just repeating all those simplistic & unfalsifiable claims made by the usual
hysterics.
Alas, why would I pursue such a one-sided rant, where you have already decided that the
point-whatever-degree C in 100 years is absolutely, catastrophically, unequivocally, due to humanity & CO2
The whole site reads like zealous creationist dogma.
Eric Grimsrud said….
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What is this about grandfathers? You make much of being a grandfather. Hansen says he’s doing what he does for his grandchildren.
Does this mean that anyone who isn’t a grandfather is a self-serving short-sighted sybaritic parasite who can’t see past the end of their nose, and cares nothing about the future?
Please can this grandfather-ism cease immediately? I have nothing against grandfathers, until they start spouting holier-than-thou nonsense with the implication that somehow their relations make them morally superior to the rest of us.
rogerknights says:
August 3, 2012 at 2:00 am
If the temperature had been ten degrees lower that spontaneous combustion would only have occurred ten minutes later.
It could also have been caused by the sun’s rays being focused on some crumpled newspapers or oily rags through a half-full water bottle someone tossed — I’ve seen that happen when temps were in the low 70s.
Yeah, I used to work in a landfill — long time ago…
Brian H says:
August 3, 2012 at 1:31 am
NOAA seems to be a major source of misrepresentation, as though it falsified its data sets to generate graphs-to-order for stupid alarmism. A simplistic hypothesis, I know, but it seems to do pretty well as a predictor.
Jane Lubchenko’s held the reins at NOAA since 2009, and when someone as amoral as Barney Frank thinks you’re corrupt, that says something:
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2010/07/frank_calls_on.html
I am reminded of the Walrus and the Carpenter:
“The sun was shining on the sea
Shining with all his might;
Doing his very best to make
The billows smooth and bright.
And this was odd, because it was
The middle of the night.”
Just like the dumpster fire …
Maybe very slow-acting sun’s rays?
😉
;p
Entropic man says:
August 3, 2012 at 3:05 am
“A cynic would wonder if Senator Inhofe is protecting his campaign funding by promoting an anti-cAGW agenda in the Senate, since his most generous supporters are the Koch brothers.”
Shall we start enumerating the environmental groups receiving money from the Rockefeller foundation now? Let’s start with 350.org…
Eric Grimsrud said….
If Eric is so worried about the future state of this marvelous planet what is he doing clogging it up with children and grandchildren? Wouldn’t it have been better to leave that to people who show some ability to absorb information from both sides of an argument and come to rational conclusions.
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Wayne Delbeke says:
August 3, 2012 at 2:42 am
With apologies to all the PhD’s here, I have a farm neighbour and ex-bull rider with 4 brothers and two sisters with PhD’s and he always calls them “Piled Higher and Deeper”. Somehow whenever I see some of the reports coming out the University of Colorado/Boulder and others these days, I can’t help but think of that phrase.
I heard from a certain Mr Ken Dodd that PhD stood for prepares hot dinners, some may be better off doing just that.
Steve
RCS says:
August 2, 2012 at 3:22 pm
“I would say that you are lucky in the US because you have high profile sceptics in the Senate and in acadenia. Contrast this to the UK where every MP is a “believer” (with 3 honourable exceptions).
Europe is doomed to go through an increasing period….”
Skeptics, adventurers, the persecuted, independent thinkers and those seeking a better life left Europe in droves once the New World had been discovered. Its not too late to come on over! (Of course, once the place was cleared and paved, other types came over, too!)