U.S. Senator Inhofe to travel to Copenhagen as a climate change ‘truth squad’
Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe announced on C-SPAN this morning that he would be traveling to the Copenhagen climate summit as a “on-man truth squad.” The senator is one of the most outspoken critics of the cap and trade legislation and a leading skeptic of the manmade climate change theory.
The senator previously attended a similar U.N. conference in Milan, Italy in 2003 where he quickly became one of the event’s villains. “Wanted” posters with the senator’s picture were posted in the conference center at that event with his quote calling global warming, “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.”
In the interview, Inhofe discussed the Waxman-Markey climate change legislation that the House of Representatives passed and a similar initiative authored by California Senator Barbara Boxer that is now working its way through the Senate. Inhofe pointed out that neither of the measures would result in a decrease in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions but would cost billions of dollars. “To pass the largest tax increase in the history of America that even the EPA director says is not going to reduce the emissions is ludicrous,” he said.
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About his announcement to go to Europe for the UN conference, Inhofe said, “I’m going to go to Copenhagen. I think somebody has to be there – a one-man truth squad – so let’s see what happens there.” The senator said the science on climate change was “mixed.”
Inhofe said he believed that dissenting voices which have gone unheard before need to be represented at the United Nations Climate Change Conference. It was hoped the conference would yield an international treaty to combat global warming but that now appears to be out of reach with leaders saying they hope to reach a ‘political agreement.’
President Barack Obama announced he would attend the start of the summit and offer goals that would include an emissions reduction target of 17% below 2005 levels by 2020 and then fall in line with any legislation that comes from Congress. However, the offer is dependent on getting Capitol Hill to pass some sort of climate legislation which will not happen until spring at the earliest, if ever.
You can almost hear the frustration of Americans. Why the hell does any think that “…dissenting voices which have gone unheard before need to be represented at the United Nations Climate Change Conference.” The time has come to withdraw all support for the UN and forbid any taxpayer dollars being supported in anyway by this enemy of Americans. I don’t want dissenting voices heard, I want the massive scheme to overthrow America silenced for ever.
some times,when you are too generous,that is the way they pay you back.this country is too generous to the rest of world and doesn’t deserve these evil treatements.