Weak: Keith Olbermann, Jon Stewart Attack Inhofe's Climate Skepticism
The exposure of Climategate and the impending failure of the
That has drawn the ire of the left, which knows it’s losing momentum here and abroad as the
On Olbermann’s Dec. 14 broadcast, he awarded Inhofe the second-place prize in his “Worst Persons in the World” segment, based on Inhofe disputing the so-called “warmest decade on record” talking point that is a favorite of global warming alarmists and is based on narrowly interpreted climate data.
“The silver to Sen. James Inhofe, the senator from the oil business,” Olbermann said. “When even Fox ‘Noise’ has to break it to you that the World Meteorological Organization has found this decade as the warmest on record, you would know you were in trouble. Not the ‘Hofer.’ ‘It means very little because that was based on the same flawed science, the IPC[C] science that we’ve been looking at.’”
And this ClimateGate stuff – it’s much ado about nothing in Olbermann’s mind. Based on his narrow account of the scandal, global warming is going to be a pressing issue no matter what the circumstances or evidence to the contrary.
“What he means by that is the stolen e-mails he’s been looking at,” Olbermann said. “More bad news on that front for the ‘Hofer.’ The Associated Press had five reporters and seven scientists, including experts on the ethics of research, analyze the 1 million words in the 1,073 hacked e-mails that supposedly constitute ClimateGate. They concluded that they stonewalled skeptics and discussed hiding data, but the messages don’t support claims that the science of global warming was faked.”
If Olbermann had actually gone to the original Associated Press article, instead of relying on some left-wing interpretation of the article, he would see that the AP found some problems with the practices at the University of East Anglia, “an influential source of climate science.”
“One of the most disturbing elements suggests an effort to avoid sharing scientific data with critics skeptical of global warming. It is not clear if any data was destroyed; two
But despite those criticisms and questions about Borenstein’s cozy association with the global warming alarmism community, where there is documented proof he showed his hand to one side before the other, Olbermann had the gall to make a whopper of a claim about the AP.
“The AP, which periodically leans a little right-wards, if it leans at all, has thus disproved ClimateGate,” Olbermann said. “Too bad its reporters could not now move on to disproving the existence of Sen. ‘Hofer’ Inhofe.” [emphasis added]
And another leading left-wing media figure had to get his few moments of Inhofe ridicule in as well. Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart got a few smarmy jabs in at Inhofe’s efforts to supply another voice to the global warming debate.
“But global warming critics are not without their hyperbole,” Stewart said on his Dec. 14 show.
And that hyperbole? It comes from a speech from a July 28, 2003 Senate speech from Inhofe – six years ago, compared with the doom-and-gloom rhetoric that coming from alarmists currently in
“Could it be that manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? I believe it is,” Inhofe said.
“Could, it, could it be?” Stewart mocked. “Could it be bigger than Hitler's diary? Could it be bigger than the Big Foot sex tape or a bigger hoax than the female orgasm? That's a hoax, right? I mean it’s got to be a hoax?”
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