Inhofe Staffer Marc Morano On Deadly Snow Storm: ‘HA! HA! HA!’
Inhofe Staffer Marc Morano On Deadly Snow Storm: ‘HA! HA! HA!’
Last night, Sen. Jim Inhofe’s (R-OK) office responded to forecasts of a dangerous storm with mockery. A winter storm sweeping up the East Coast with rain, snow, and ice has caused 350 car crashes in New Jersey, a 15-mile-long traffic jam in North Carolina, and four deaths from car accidents in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Long Island. Hundreds of thousands of households lost power from Georgia to Maine. Marc Morano, Sen. Inhofe’s environmental communications director, mocked the threat of the storm by pointing out it would take place at the same time as a protest of fossil-fueled global warming in Washington D.C.:
BREAKING: Not again! Big DC Snowstorm to Greet ‘Largest public protest of global warming ever in U.S.!’ – Unseasonably Cold March Temps! [Note: All I (Marc Morano) can say is: HA! HA! HA! - The ‘Gore Effect’ Strikes again – this time it impacts NASA’s James Hansen! See also: GORE HEARING ON WARMING MAY BE PUT ON ICE – Jan. 26, 2009 ]
Spurred by his email blast and pumped by Drudge, the conservative blogosphere went into a tizzy that the East Coast has a snowstorm in the beginning of March:
Drudge Report: “‘Largest public protest of global warming’ ever in USA faces DC March snowstorm!”
Stop the ACLU: “As usual, great timing by the Climahysterics.”
Gateway Pundit: “The global warming religionists have been planning this protest in Washington DC for months. They’ve billed it as the largest public protest of global warming in the United States ever. Today, Mother Nature greeted the junk science enthusiasts with a record storm and a foot of snow.”
Watts Up With That reprinted part of Morano’s email and writes: “It seems like the Climate Crew has had some trouble getting their messages across.”
In addition, The Politico’s Glenn Thrush blogged:
John Bresnahan correctly points out that it seems that a disproportionate number of GW events coincide with winter storms (and no, we’re not going to provide other examples).
The Politico has run with this line of argument before — in print. The Wonk Room checked with Bresnahan, a veteran reporter, and he explained in an e-mail that it was “a joke” that “was never meant to be posted.” He continues:
As someone who wrote his first story on global warming and climate change while a reporter for the newsletter “Clean Air Report” back in 1993, I have no doubt that global climate change is occurring, it is anthropogenic in source, and the US gov’t, as well as other industrialized nations and India/China, need to take action to reduce/combat it asap.
Bresnahan followed up in a phone call with another joke (we hope!): “Glenn Thrush’s days are numbered.”
(HT: Hall of Record)
Marc Morano’s full email:
From: Marc Morano of Sen. Inhofe's staff:
To: "Morano, Marc (EPW)"
Date: Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 9:51 PM
Subject: BREAKING: Not again! Big DC Snowstorm to Greet 'Largest public protest of global warming ever in U.S.!' - Unseasonably Cold March Temps!
Mailed-by: epw.senate.govBREAKING: Not again! Big DC Snowstorm to Greet ‘Largest public protest of global warming ever in U.S.!’ – Unseasonably Cold March Temps!
[Note: All I (Marc Morano) can say is: HA! HA! HA! - The 'Gore Effect' Strikes again – this time it impacts NASA's James Hansen! See also: GORE HEARING ON WARMING MAY BE PUT ON ICE – Jan. 26, 2009 ]
BREAKING: Not again! Big DC March Snowstorm to Greet ‘Largest public protest of global warming ever in U.S.!’ – Unseasonably Cold March Temps!
DC under ‘Winter Storm Watch’…Snow and unseasonably cold temps!
‘Largest public protest of global warming ever in U.S.’ set for Monday March 2, 2009 at U.S. Capitol w/ NASA’s James Hansen – Fox News – Feb. 27, 2009
Excerpt: NASA’s chief climate scientist is in hot water with colleagues and at least one lawmaker after calling on citizens to engage in civil disobedience at what is being billed as the largest public protest of global warming ever in the United States. In a video on capitolclimateaction.org, Dr. James Hansen is seen urging Americans to “take a stand on global warming” during the March 2 protest at the Capitol Power Plant in Southeast Washington, D.C. “We need to send a message to Congress and the president that we want them to take the actions that are needed to preserve climate for young people and future generations and all life on the planet,” says Hansen, who has likened coal-fired power plants to “factories of death” and claims he was muzzled by the Bush administration when he warned of drastic climate changes. […] But critics say Hansen’s latest call to action blurs the line between astronomer and activist and may violate the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from participating in partisan political activity. “Oh my goodness,” one of Hansen’s former supervisors, Dr. John Theon, told FOXNews.com when informed of the video. “I’m not surprised … The fact that Jim Hansen has gone off the deep end here is sad because he’s a good fellow.” “Why he has not been fired I do not understand,” Theon said.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,501064,00.html
Tracking ‘The Gore Effect’ – Politico November , 2008
[Note: The “Gore Effect” has a long and storied history. What follows is a sampling of how Mother Nature enjoys mocking global warming fear promoters.
1) First October snow since 1922 blankets London as global warming bill debated – October 2008 #
3) HOUSE HEARING ON 'WARMING OF THE PLANET' CANCELED AFTER SNOW/ICE STORM – February 2007 #
4) NOT AGAIN! DC 'Snow Advisory' Issued on Day of Congressional Global Warming Hearing – March 2007 #
5) Gore decries 'global warming' in bitterly cold NYC – December 2006 #
9) Global warming protest in Maryland frosted with snow – January 2008 #
10) Global warming rally in the snow – April 2007 #
11) Snow won't dampen global-warming rallies – April 2007 #
13) Global Warming Awareness Walk Braves Snow Storm – March 2007 #
14) The Gore Effect, Cont. - Gore speaks in Italy during 'rare' cold and snow #
15) Tracking 'The Gore Effect’ – Politico November 26,6, 2008 #
16) Climate protest cancelled 'due to rain and cold' – Nov. 23, 2008 ]
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It’s impossible to spoof the Republicans since they are naturally so inane.
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:37 pmIt appears someone is in serious need of a life. You can’t see the irony of people protesting global warming in a snowstorm? To try and infer that Marano is laughing at people dying is just plain dumb.
March 2nd, 2009 at 10:04 pmHey Brock,
When you understand the overwhelming body of daily scientific evidence you wind up thinking that people who see the irony in this are myopic.
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:01 pmWhen it comes to comedy, one must stand up and take notice when noted humor expert and one of the funniest people ever to work in DC lets loose with the “HA! HA! HA!s” Attention must be paid.
No one has been more hysterically, rip-snortingly full of yucks than Marc “Make Me Laugh” Morano in his priceless act on behalf of Senator Jimbo Spittake Inhofre, the deadpan Andy Kaufmann of K Street.
While others get all stuffy and gloom and doom about the unyielding science consensus about global warming, Senator Okie Dokie just gets more and more creative as he creates imaginary scientists of his own, many of whom served as the model for Ron Burgandy. How the hell can you get any funnier than that?
And when the crazy, erratic, weird weather that comes with climate change happens, don’t expect that same Senator to roll over and play deadly serious. No way, Jose. That’s not the way they put the fringe on top of that surrey. They just say, “Global Warming? Can’t be. Brrrr. It’s just too damn cold for that!”
Sorry, I can’t write any more. I’m laughing too much over the concept of someone from Oklahoma being so goddamn funny it kills me.
Nobody kills like the Senator. Not even good old Saddam Hussein with his silly little mustache.
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:01 pmOf course, the last laugh will be on Drudge, Inhofe and Morano because they are all blinded by their own ambitions and ideology.
If one were to look a little closer, you would see that it is obvious that warming temps in the atmosphere and oceans has create more severe storms, whether that is in the summer or winter months.
This is not funny. It is insane that public policy makers and web site owners try to make this a political story when they do not at all understand the fundamental peer-reviewed science behind it.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060312211757.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081227214927.htm
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:12 am“Global warming on Neptune’s moon Triton as well as Jupiter and Pluto, and now Mars has some [scientists] scratching their heads over what could possibly be in common with the warming of all these planets … Could there be something in common with all the planets in our solar system that might cause them all to warm at the same time?”
The scientists scracthing their heads are the ones who are getting the billions in funding to keep this farce profitable
March 6th, 2009 at 4:51 pmThere are numerous moons and planets with atmosphere and multiple time scales. For any pair of atmosphere, time scale, there will be a trend. Some of them will be near zero, and of the others some will be upward and some downward.
The earth is experiencing numerous rapid changes that are well explained by greenhouse gas accumulations and not as easily explained by solar forcing (notably stratospheric cooling). If you can find similar phenomena on *most* other planets, on a *matching* time scale, then you can make a case for an extraterrestrial source. Otherwise it’s just an exercise in cherry picking, and not a very good one either.
Joe_American’s evidence has almost surely passed through the hands of professional denialists. It actually doesn’t constitute evidence at all.
Of course it is beyond ridiculous to suggest that scientists profit from this all.
In the US, in the Clinton and Bush years at least, scientists were actively discouraged by their institutions from saying anything at all about climate policy, for fear of threatening their funding. At federal labs this was actually policy; scientists were explicitly required to say nothing in public and to defer to political operatives. For a remarkable example, see the pdf linked from
http://initforthegold.blogspot.com/2007/07/polar-bears.html
The upshot of the science is to support the energy sector, notably the renewables, energy storage, and efficiency initiatives. In other words, we are asking the money to be sent to engineers, far from our own interests.
The best bet for science is to say “further research is needed”. Scientists claiming that the evidence is sufficient already are NOT acting in their own interests.
March 7th, 2009 at 11:20 amIn light of this, we can conclude Joe American is an Austrian named Dolph who’s spiritually American, right?
So why do we mock them? Start with “global warming on Pluto.” But don’t hurt yourself laughing.
March 7th, 2009 at 1:37 pm