INHOFE SAYS NEW UN GLOBAL WARMING REPORT PROVES FEARS OF MANMADE CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE ARE 'UNSUSTAINABLE' ��

INHOFE SAYS NEW UN GLOBAL WARMING REPORT PROVES FEARS OF MANMADE CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE ARE 'UNSUSTAINABLE'

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December 10, 2006

WASHINGTON, DC - Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Chairman of the
Environment & Public Works Committee, commented on today's article in
the UK Telegraph titled "UN Downgrades Man's Impact on the Climate." The
Telegraph reported that a draft of the United Nation's Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) upcoming fourth assessment has lowered
mankind's estimated impact on the Earth's climate by 25 percent and
scaled back sea level rise upper estimates by nearly half since the last
IPCC report in 2001.

"We are all skeptics now. It appears that the UN is now acknowledging
what an increasing number of scientists who study the climate have come
to realize: Predictions of manmade catastrophic global warming are
simply unsustainable," Senator Inhofe said.

The upcoming UN IPCC assessment is reported to 'halve its predictions
for sea-level rise by 2100,' according to the Telegraph article. The
UN's lowering of mankind's impact on the climate is reportedly because
of "a refinement due to better data on how climate works."

"It is remarkable that sea level rise upper estimates have been cut
nearly in half since the last IPCC assessment in 2001, because of
scientific 'refinement due to better data.' Climate science is always
going through these 'refinements.' The erroneous prediction of a coming
ice age in the 1970's also faded away due to 'a refinement due to better
data,'" Senator Inhofe said. "As I detailed in my Senate floor speech on
September 25, the media has alternated between four separate global
cooling and warming scares since 1895. Each climate scare eventually
faded away due to similar 'refinements due to better data.'

"Even the UN appears to now be sobering up and dousing much needed cold
water on the global warming alarmism promoted by much of the mainstream
media, Hollywood, NASA scientist James Hansen and former Vice President
Al Gore. News that global warming alarmism is more hype than fact should
not surprise those who viewed my committee's "Climate Change and the
Media" hearing last week or read the EPW's new publicly released
'Skeptics Guide to Debunking Global Warming Alarmism,'" Senator Inhofe
added. (For more info on 'Skeptic's Guide' go to:
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"As Chairman of the Environment & Public Works Committee, I have given
over 10 climate change speeches and held four full committee hearings
since 2003, examining the global warming issue. After more than 20 years
of climate hype, the UN's appears to finally be conceding that previous
estimates of climatic doom have been over hyped and the science was
simply not there to project these frightening 'extreme scenarios,'
Senator Inhofe added.

"Eventually, even the peddlars of climate alarmism will have to concede
that the hoopla over manmade catastrophic global warming and the
proposed solutions like the costly and ineffective Kyoto Protocol, will
prove to be one of the history's most misguided concerns-- joining the
1970's coming ice age fears, overpopulation and famines scares -- to
name just a few.

This news from the UN will not be greeted warmly by advocates of
climatic doom. One can almost imagine the grieving faces of the
Hollywood celebrities and environmentalists as they hear the new UN
climate assessment and realize that they are way outside the 'consensus'
on manmade global warming. With the continued scientific demise of
manmade catastrophic global warming fears, the environmentalists and
publicity and grant seeking scientists and many in the media, may now
have to find another dubious environmental doomsday cause to scare the
public and policy makers," Senator Inhofe concluded.

Growing skepticism in 2006 that human C02 emissions are creating a
"climate catastrophe" caps a year in which numerous scientific studies
have bolstered the claims of climate skeptics and are shattering the
media-promoted scientific "consensus" on climate alarmism. See:
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In September, renowned French geophysicists and Socialist Party member
Claude Allegre, converted from a believer in manmade catastrophic global
warming to a climate skeptic. In addition, famed UK environmental
campaigner David Bellamy's recently converted to climate skeptic,
calling fears of manmade climate change 'poppycock.'

In April of this year, 60 prominent scientists wrote to the Canadian
Prime Minister declaring that "Observational evidence does not support
today's computer climate models, so there is little reason to trust
model predictions of the future...Significant [scientific] advances have
been made since the [Kyoto] protocol was created, many of which are
taking us away from a concern about increasing greenhouse gases. If,
back in the mid-1990s, we knew what we know today about climate, Kyoto
would almost certainly not exist, because we would have concluded it was
not necessary." See:
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Related Links:

For a comprehensive review of the media's embarrassing 100-year history
of alternating between promoting fears of a coming ice age and global
warming, see Environment & Public Works Chairman James Inhofe's
September 25, 2006 Senate floor speech debunking the media and climate
alarmism. Go to:
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12/08/2006 - SENATOR INHOFE ANNOUNCES PUBLIC RELEASE OF "SKEPTIC'S GUIDE
TO DEBUNKING GLOBAL WARMING" (
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12/06/2006 - Inhofe Says Global Warming Media Hearing Exposed Alarmist
Media ( HYPERLINK "http://epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=266540" \o "Open URL: http://epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=266540" \t "linkWin" http://epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=266540 )

10/17/2006 - Renowned Scientist Defects From Belief in Global Warming -
Caps Year of Vindication for Skeptics
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10/30/2006 - "I Don't Like The Word 'Balance''- Says ABC News Global
Warming Reporter ( HYPERLINK "http://epw.senate.gov/fact.cfm?party=rep&id=265464" \o "Open URL: http://epw.senate.gov/fact.cfm?party=rep&id=265464" \t "linkWin" http://epw.senate.gov/fact.cfm?party=rep&id=265464)

10/24/2006 - Senator Inhofe Credited For Prompting Newsweek Admission of
Error on 70's Predictions of Coming Ice Age - In Case You Missed It....
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