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Climate Skeptic Senator Burned after Snowball Stunt

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2015

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe carried a snowball onto the Senate floor to insinuate that climate change was not real, after which Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse torched Inhofe's argument. Steve Mirsky reports   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski. Got a minute?

0:40.3

In case we have forgotten because we keep hearing that 2014 has been the warmest year on record,

0:48.3

I asked the chair, you know what this is? It's a snowball. And that's just from outside here. So it's very, very cold out.

0:57.0

Oklahoma Senator James Inhoff, the biggest and loudest climate change denier in Congress last week on the floor of the Senate.

1:04.6

But his facile argument that it's cold enough for snow to exist in Washington, D.C., therefore climate change is a hoax,

1:10.8

was rebutted in the same

1:12.1

venue by Rhode Island Senator Sheldon White House. You can believe NASA, and you can believe what

1:18.0

their satellites measure on the planet, or you can believe the senator with the snowball.

1:24.6

The United States Navy takes this very seriously to the point where Admiral Locklear,

1:30.3

who is the head of the Pacific Command, has said that climate change is the biggest threat

1:37.3

that we face in the Pacific. You can either believe the United States Navy, or you can believe the senator with the snowball.

1:47.5

Every major American scientific society has put itself on record,

1:52.8

many of them a decade ago, that climate change is deadly real.

1:59.0

They measure it, they see it, they know why it happens.

2:03.2

The predictions correlate with what we see

2:07.0

as they increasingly come true,

2:09.2

and the fundamental principles that it is derived

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