Inhofe: Cold Weather Snap Shows Global Warming ‘Hot Air’
Inhofe says recent cold weather shows climate change talk is ‘hot air’
James Bright, The Express-Star
CHICKASHA — Senator Jim Inhofe made comments yesterday alleging Oklahoma’s recent cold snap as evidence rebuking global warming.
“The Economist reported in March that scientists are beginning to backtrack their concerns for man-made climate change, citing that temperatures globally have not risen over the past decade,” Inhofe said in a release yesterday. “Maybe it’s time some of this hot air surrounding the global warming debate be sent down here to relieve Oklahomans and our farmers.”
Inhofe said Oklahoma’s unseasonably cold spring is simply an indication of typically wild weather patterns in the state.
“When we experience temperatures not to our liking, it gets labeled as global warming in the summer and climate change in the winter,” Inhofe said. “Waking up to frost on my windshield in May made it a little confusing just what my climate alarmist friends would say we’re experiencing here in Oklahoma. Yesterday’s temperatures were 10-20 degrees below average across the state, and April brought some of the coldest days in our state’s history. Our farmers are suffering because of it with wheat output expected to drop by nearly 50 percent this year due to the late-season freezes. All the while, activists are relentless in their attempts to drum up global warming hysteria blaming our state’s successful energy sector for extreme heat temperatures.”