LEDERHOSEN IN A KNOT OVER INHOFE…WHO IS AN AMERICAN HERO
SENATOR INHOFE IS A HERO FOR DEBUNKING THE JUNK SCIENCE OF THE “WARM MONGERS”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,668408,00.html
‘The Inhofe Supremacy’
The extent of that addiction was apparent in many actors at Copenhagen, but especially in one. He only came for a few hours, but he was also decisively responsible for the chaos that marked the negotiations: James Inhofe, a Republican politician who does whatever he can in Washington to inhibit Obama’s efforts to impose CO2 limits. He is not only ridiculous in describing climate change as made up by “the Hollywood elite,” but outright dangerous. He would rather sacrifice American natural beauty at home and American soldiers abroad than to push his country to the forefront of a green technology revolution. For men of his ilk, oil and coal are tantamount to power, not a curse. They believe that Americans have a God-given right to release twice the level of emissions as the Europeans and four times as much as the planet’s average inhabitant. “The Inhofe Supremacy” could be the name of a film about the man, because the primacy in the world he is trying to secure for his country is enormous. But there are plenty of Chinese, Indians and Australians who think similarly. Working together in Copenhagen, they prevented humanity from starting to work together to solve a number of shared problems — to the detriment of every start-up investment that has the prospect of a hundred years of green profits.
Men like Inhofe, who in Copenhagen warned that nations shouldn’t be “deceived into thinking the US would pass cap-and-trade legislation,” have the effect of poison when it comes to the urgently needed global trust-building. As in nuclear disarmament, the expectation is pivotal that the other side will take the same difficult steps. But as long as the danger persists that a party could again come into power in America that would wipe the findings of climate science from the table and would rather send soldiers abroad than solar power engineers, then there won’t be much trust towards the US. And the Chinese may be talking the talk on climate issues, but as long as they are only spending a small part of their enormous cash reserves on green investments, their credibility will be compromised.
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