{"id":842,"date":"2007-01-24T08:58:30","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T16:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=842"},"modified":"2007-01-29T07:10:52","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T15:10:52","slug":"a-rational-voice-in-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/01\/24\/a-rational-voice-in-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rational Voice in the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image841\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/imhofe.jpg\" alt=\"imhofe.jpg\" class=\"left\" \/>Senator <strong>Jim Inhofe<\/strong> (R-Oklahoma) is one of the few rational voices in the Senate when it comes to addressing the global warming issue. The Senator and his staff have established a weblog on the website of the Environmental and Public Works Committee where they don&#8217;t pull any punches when it comes to taking on the hype and misstatements by the Congress or the public in general. When Heidi Cullen, host of the Weather Channel&#8217;s weekly global warming program &#8220;The Climate Code&#8221; called for the American Meteorological Society to decertify any TV weatherperson who exhibits undue skepticism about climate warming, the Senator and his staff wasted no time in <a href=\"http:\/\/epw.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Blogs&#038;ContentRecord_id=3AB9E37D-802A-23AD-430E-1C42AAD22006\">publishing a rebuke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos, Senator! We have added the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/epw.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs\">Senate EPW Blog<\/a>&#8221; to our blogroll.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kimberley A. Strassel<\/strong> wrote the following in her article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/best\/?id=110009566#Inhofe,%20IMHO\">Opinion Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the former Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Republican <strong>Jim Inhofe<\/strong> was a coruscating critic of climate change alarmism. Now in the minority, he plans to make sure his voice is heard over the din of the media-savvy environmental groups through a new blog. His team even intends to make a bit of Congressional history by conducting the first-ever live Senate blog during the president&#8217;s State of the Union Address tonight. Watch out, National Review Online.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) is one of the few rational voices in the Senate when it comes to addressing the global warming issue. The Senator and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-environment","category-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}