{"id":14027,"date":"2014-11-05T07:59:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T12:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=14027"},"modified":"2014-11-05T07:59:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T12:59:23","slug":"republican-takeover-senate-will-spotlight-climate-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=14027","title":{"rendered":"Republican Takeover of Senate Will Spotlight Climate Denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://disneycruisinggroup.com/thinkingdisneycruise/">https://disneycruisinggroup.com/thinkingdisneycruise/</a> Now that the Republicans control Congress for the next two years, what&#8217;s in store for U.S. climate politics? Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/11\/keystone-pipeline-2014-elections-112567.html\" target=\"_blank\">Keystone is the first order of business<\/a>, and then probably a whole lot of bombast and theater, which many will find unappetizing:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p> 
<a href="https://www.secpeinvestments.com/commercial/">https://www.secpeinvestments.com/commercial/</a> Most vocal climate change skeptic in the Senate now runs the Senate&#8217;s environmental committee: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/8w0Ag7pQqF\">http:\/\/t.co\/8w0Ag7pQqF<\/a> Not good.<\/p>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://castlehomecomfort.com/toilet-repair/">https://castlehomecomfort.com/toilet-repair/</a> Not good for science and sane politics, perhaps, but if you&#8217;re a Democrat who cares about climate change and you are already looking ahead to 2016, there&#8217;s a silver lining: You have the face of climate denialism in a top leadership spot, quoted often in the media, representing the Republican brand in Congress.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="http://masterfacilitator.com/vizhub/"></a> And this is not your garden variety climate skepticism that nitpicks the science. We&#8217;re talking all-in global conspiracy belief, infamously expressed, as <em>The Hill<\/em>\u00a0<em><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/floor-action\/senate\/222803-inhofe-blasts-extreme-climate-report\" target=\"_blank\">recently noted<\/a>:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://ramedicare.com/bundle-packs/">https://ramedicare.com/bundle-packs/</a> Inhofe has repeatedly called climate change a \u201choax,\u201d despite near universal agreement from the scientific community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://prosthodontistlasvegas.com/stages-of-dental-implants/"></a> Indeed, as Phil Plait at <em>Slate<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2014\/11\/04\/republicans_and_the_midterms_global_warming_deniers_could_have_their_dreams.html\" target=\"_blank\">writes<\/a>, Inhofe &#8220;denies it [global warming] to levels that would make the frothiest conspiracy theorists shake their heads in wonder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://dentalprovidence.com/dental-sealants/">https://dentalprovidence.com/dental-sealants/</a> If you&#8217;re a money man like Tom Steyer hellbent on making climate change a <a href=\"http:\/\/touch.latimes.com\/#section\/-1\/article\/p2p-80272120\/\" target=\"_blank\">wedge issue<\/a> for Democrats, then you are happy to have Senator James Inhofe as the Republican face of climate change for the next two years.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://theroyalstagproperties.com/our-team/">Buy Zanaflex Online Without Prescription</a> <strong> <a href="https://forgive123.com/steps/">https://forgive123.com/steps/</a> UPDATE:<\/strong> After the election, <em>Time<\/em> published a thorough <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3558611\/jim-inhofe-global-warming-climate-change-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">piece<\/a>\u00a0on Inhofe&#8217;s climate change views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="http://www.amandasatoz.com/?page_id=1454">Eszopiclone Lunesta Buy Online</a> Now that the Republicans control Congress for the next two years, what&#8217;s in store for U.S. climate politics? Well, Keystone is the first order of business, and then probably a whole lot of bombast and theater, which many will find unappetizing: Most vocal climate change skeptic in the Senate now runs the Senate&#8217;s environmental committee:&#8230;<span> <a href="https://www.andrewplimmer.com/7-day-shift/">Order Lyrica Online</a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=14027\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2553,2557,2561],"tags":[835,846,929,1120,1594],"class_list":["post-14027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-climate-politics","category-climate-science","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-politics","tag-denialism","tag-global-warming","tag-senator-james-inhofe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}