{"id":445720,"date":"2010-03-18T23:01:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T03:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/inhofe-bashes-global-warming-science-says-gore-is-running-for-cover\/"},"modified":"2010-03-18T23:01:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T03:01:26","slug":"inhofe-bashes-global-warming-science-says-gore-is-%e2%80%98running-for-cover%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/445720","title":{"rendered":"Inhofe Bashes Global Warming Science, Says Gore Is \u2018Running For Cover\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"post_image\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Al+Gore_1961_19672714_0_0_7001570_300.jpg\" alt=\"Inhofe bashes global warming science, says Gore is 'running for cover'\" align=\"right\" \/>Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) publicly lashed out at Al Gore on Monday, referring to global warming as \u201cthe greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,\u201d while claiming that the former vice president is \u201crunning for cover\u201d following recent questions regarding climate change science.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s under siege these days,\u201d said Inhofe, while speaking on the Senate floor. \u201cThe credibility of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is eroding, the Environmental Protection Agency&#8217;s (EPA) endangerment finding is collapsing and belief that global warming is leading to catastrophe is evaporating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGore seems to be drowning in a sea of his own global warming illusions nevertheless,\u201d added the senator, who has been a longtime critic of the science behind climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Inhofe also insinuated that Gore had gotten rich due to global warming, referring to the Nobel Peace Prize winner as the first \u201cclimate billionaire,\u201d and said his recent op-ed piece in <em>The New York Times<\/em> was a simple act of desperation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the senator concluded his 30-minute speech by denouncing climate change legislation being authored by Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.), claiming that any cap-and-trade bill would adversely affect the American people.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19672714\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19672714-ADNFCR\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) publicly lashed out at Al Gore on Monday, referring to global warming as \u201cthe greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,\u201d while claiming that the former vice president is \u201crunning for cover\u201d following recent questions regarding climate change science. \u201cHe&#8217;s under siege these days,\u201d said Inhofe, while speaking on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}