Opinion: GOP senators: Climate skeptics? Or deniers? No, Big Oil lobbyists!

Astute observations that will be totally ignored by the mass media, how do they do it?


http://www.marketwatch.com/story/unmasking-the-big-oil-lobbyists-whose-words-sow-distraction-2014-12-17

"There’s a big climate-science question that’s totally baffling the liberal press, especially the New York Times and Washington Post: Is Oklahoma GOP Sen. James Inhofe a real card-carrying climate-science “skeptic?” Or is he a hard-nosed “denier?” Warning, the question’s bogus, dumb and dangerous. Here’s why.

Skeptic or denier? Who cares? Not conservative capitalists and the GOP. But liberal journalists are fighting like uptight medieval scholars arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Damn it, focus on the big issues, substance not semantics.

Facts: In this year’s “Economic Assessment of Oil and Gas Tax Policy in Oklahoma,’ RegionTrack research firm says that “Oklahoma is second only to Texas in America’s oil and gas industry.” Big contributor to the state economy. Huge employer. Workers average over $100,000. And pay less taxes than national average.

Yes, Big Oil is big business in Big Jim’s Big Oklahoma. So no surprise Inhofe wrote the bible on the subject a couple years ago: “The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future.”

Yes, that’s effectively the GOP election platform. So why even question Inhofe’s motivation? Old news. A ClimateProgress reviewer of “The Greatest Hoax” noted that over the years Inhofe’s received “$1,352,523 in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry, including $90,950 from Koch Industries.” And in the 2012 elections, 90% of the entire industry’s donations went to GOP candidates."

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