Watch Inhofe Throw A Snowball On The Senate Floor To Disprove Global Warming

http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2009/03/13/global-warming-normal-nothing-to-do-with-fossil-fuels/

Alan: Considering the planet as a whole, January, 2015, was the second hottest January since records have been kept.

Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe's version of Christianity (below) is existentially incompatible with the findings (and workings) of Science.

Either Christianity or Science will "give." 

And until then, if Abrahamic fundamentalists -- Jewish, Christian or Islamic -- do not provoke "Armageddon" through cockstrutting self-righteousness, it will be anti-science Christianity that buckles that buckles here in the United States.

In the meantime -- and unless biblical literalism comes to an end -- Christian ranks will continue to thin.

Millennials have ever less patience for anti-scientific gobbledygook. 

Biblical Literalism And The Cultivation Of Hatred

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/biblical-literalism-and-cultivation-of.html

Mistakes In Scripture: When The Bible Gets The Bible Wrong

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/05/mistakes-in-scripture-when-bible-gets.html

Biblical Literalism: Not Only Impossible But Destructive Of Meaning And Souls

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/biblical-literalism-not-only-impossible.html

Watch Inhofe Throw a Snowball on the Senate Floor to Disprove Global Warming

Alan: How embarrassing...  like a deranged centenarian performing a striptease.

By Eric Holthaus

During rambling remarks Thursday afternoon, James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, used a snowball as a prop on the Senate floor. The apparent purpose of this stunt: to show the recent spate of cold weather in the Northeast is a sign that human activity isn’t causing climate change.

The snowball was brought to the Senate floor in a sealable plastic bag.

Inhofe began his speech with the snowball at his side on the speaker’s podium. After he was introduced, he removed it from the bag, held it in his hand, and said, “I ask the chair, you know what this is? It’s a snowball, just from outside here. So it’s very, very cold out. Very unseasonal. Mr. President, catch this.”

Inhofe then underhand tossed the snowball in the direction of Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who was presiding over the Senate at the time.

Videotape and Twitter reaction at: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/02/26/inhofe_throws_a_snowball_on_senate_floor_to_disprove_global_warming_video.html?google_editors_picks=true

In his comments, Inhofe was his typical climate-denying self—which is frustrating because he wields significant power on U.S. climate policy in the newly Republican-controlled Senate. “I’m not a scientist, and don’t claim to be,” Inhofe said on Thursday. He then cited, among other things, a Newsweek article from 1975 (whose author recently lamented the way climate change deniers use his work), archaeological evidence, and Scriptures, in addition to the snowball, as evidence that refutes the claim that “somehow man is so important that he can change [the climate].”

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Eric Holthaus is a meteorologist who writes about weather and climate for Slate’s Future Tense. Follow him on Twitter.