"US senator calls UN climate meeting 'brainwashing'," Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters, November 16, 2006.James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican Senator "who will step down as chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee in January, told a news conference, 'The idea that the science (on global warming) is settled is altogether wrong.'......Inhofe said he acknowledged that the planet is warming but disputed those who attribute it to human activity and the emission of greenhouse gases. Instead, he blamed climate change on natural cycles."
Imhofe seems especially incensed by the children's book, "Tore and the Town on Thin Ice". (Carole Douglis, UNEP, March 2006.) Indeed, his Senate Committee reprints virtually the entire book on its website.
Comment: It seems to me that the Senate has better things to do than to review children's books. Of course, they will give this nice little book more publicity and that will make it more widely read, which will probably annoy the Senator more. Perhaps the new majority will place someone more helpful in charge of its environmental affairs. JAD
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