Sen. Inhofe appears on the Joe Kelley Radio Show to discuss Copenhagen.

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“In reading through the document, one will see that Sen. Kerry is badly misinformed about many of the key details and issues surrounding the climate change policy debate.” - Sen Inhofe

As the President prepares to push his massive energy tax on the American people in the form of “Cap & Trade”, several Republican lawmakers are sponsoring bills that regulate livestock flatulence as well. Although it seems silly, it highlights  to us the problems with “Cap & Trade” and how out of touch the environmental movement has become.

 “If they do regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, then they will have to do all sources, all emitters,” Sen. John Thune, a South Dakota Republican and co-sponsor of the Senate cow tax bill, S.B. 527, told the news service. “That will include livestock because of the methane created and the greenhouse gas and carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere.”

Sen.Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, is SB 527’s other sponsor.

There also are a pair of bovine flatulence measures moving through the House, one sponsored by Rep. Frank Lucas or Oklahoma, the ranking Republican on the agriculture committee, and one by Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, a Nebraska Republican.” Read more...

Former investigative reporter and current advisor for Senator Jim Inhofe, Marc Morano reveals the agenda behind the hype. He discusses the complicated “cap and trade” scheme that Obama supports, which is really a stealth ‘carbon tax’ which will cost Americans trillions have no effect on the climate. Even the Washington Post called Cap and Trade a “fundamental restructuring of our economy” yet do nothing for the climate.

Hat tip: TCCTV 

From Yahoo News: 2008 is ‘the coolest year’ of the past five years, undermining the hysterical claims from the global warming extremists.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, yesterday introduced legislation repealing section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) signed into law in December 2007. Section 526 prohibits federal agencies from contracting for nonconventional, or alternative, fuels that emit higher levels of greenhouse gas emissions than “conventional petroleum sources”:

I worked to include language in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 recognizing that unconventional fuels such as oil shale and tar sands developed in the U.S. and Canada are strategically important and necessary to develop to reduce the growing dependence of the U.S. on foreign oil imports. Section 526 of the 2007 energy bill, however, prohibits federal agencies from contracting for such fuels.

This misguided provision was surreptitiously inserted into the 2007 energy bill shortly before final passage. Despite the potential enormity of the provision’s consequences, no public hearings, discourse, or examination occurred before its inclusion. The scope of fuels that could be prohibited is left wide-open to interpretation, including fuels such as Canadian oil sands, E85 ethanol, and coal- and natural gas-to-liquids fuel, which has powered B-52H bomber aircraft at Tinker Air Force Base.

I’m particularly concerned that section 526 could limit the diversity and supply of fuel for our nation’s Air Force and other military branches. Our military could be forced to obtain a greater percentage of petroleum from unstable regions of the world, endangering our ability to quickly and economically obtain much-needed fuel to conduct operations vital to the defense of our nation.

The effects of this legislation could increase fuel prices for our military, thus reducing our ability to maintain, reset and modernize our forces. At a time when our troops are involved in two large-scale foreign conflicts, our military must have the flexibility to secure and develop alternative sources of fuel.

Senator Inhofe vows to defeat the Global Warming bill that was introduced by Senators John Warner (R-VA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT).

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By Sen. James Inhofe

Special to Roll Call

There is a better way for Congress to legislate. The American people deserve an open and honest debate on the merits of any proposed climate change legislation, especially considering that mandatory carbon cap-and-trade legislation will impose the largest tax increase ever in the U.S. without any measurable climate benefits. Consideration of the Lieberman-Warner bill, The Wall Street Journal reported in a Nov. 5 article, comes at a time when a “winter-heating crisis looms.”

The consequences of higher fuel bills for poor Americans can be devastating. High energy bills were cited as one of the two main reasons for homelessness, according to a 2006 survey of Colorado homeless families with children. Because of the significant economic harm imposed on our country by this bill, I joined Sens. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) in requesting a full economic analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Information Administration before we proceed to a vote. Not knowing the extent of the economic damage resulting from this bill before we vote would be irresponsible. Read more…