Tuesday, August 27, 2013 9:20:24 PM
Tom Coburn: 'I'm A Global Warming Denier. I Don't Deny That.'
By Kate Sheppard
Posted: 08/27/2013 5:12 pm EDT | Updated: 08/27/2013 5:18 pm EDT
In a speech to the Tulsa Regional Chamber of Commerce on Monday night, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) gladly accepted a moniker that is most often used as a slur: "global warming denier."
The Tulsa World captured his remarks [ http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Coburn_on_revising_the_Constitution_global_warming/30-21971 ]:
"I am a global warming denier. I don't deny that."
The climate is changing, and has been as long as there has been a climate, he said.
As a physician and a man of science, Coburn said he thinks the evidence points that the Earth is moving into a "mini-ice age."
It's not exactly a new stance for Coburn. He's previously called climate change "malarkey [ http://grist.org/article/2009-08-27-tom-coburn-has-scientific-document-reading-training-so-you-cant/ ]" and referred to the people who believe the science that indicates it is happening as "climate scare people [ http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/15/coburn-on-obama-energy-policy-keep-all-the-green-incentives-but-lets-take-care-of-our-own-oil-video/ ]."
To be fair, Coburn isn't a big fan of political science [ http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2013/03/22/tom-coburn-doesnt-like-political-science/ ], either.
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By Kate Sheppard
Posted: 08/27/2013 5:12 pm EDT | Updated: 08/27/2013 5:18 pm EDT
In a speech to the Tulsa Regional Chamber of Commerce on Monday night, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) gladly accepted a moniker that is most often used as a slur: "global warming denier."
The Tulsa World captured his remarks [ http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Coburn_on_revising_the_Constitution_global_warming/30-21971 ]:
"I am a global warming denier. I don't deny that."
The climate is changing, and has been as long as there has been a climate, he said.
As a physician and a man of science, Coburn said he thinks the evidence points that the Earth is moving into a "mini-ice age."
It's not exactly a new stance for Coburn. He's previously called climate change "malarkey [ http://grist.org/article/2009-08-27-tom-coburn-has-scientific-document-reading-training-so-you-cant/ ]" and referred to the people who believe the science that indicates it is happening as "climate scare people [ http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/15/coburn-on-obama-energy-policy-keep-all-the-green-incentives-but-lets-take-care-of-our-own-oil-video/ ]."
To be fair, Coburn isn't a big fan of political science [ http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2013/03/22/tom-coburn-doesnt-like-political-science/ ], either.
Copyright © 2013 TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/27/tom-coburn-global-warming_n_3825166.html [with comments]
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