<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><table class="headlineTable " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; max-height: 1000000px; width: 877px;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-height: 1000000px;"><tr class="headlineRow id8479786" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-height: 1000000px;"><td class="headlineText" style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: middle; max-height: 1000000px;"><span class="headline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-height: 1000000px; display: block; min-height: 20px;"><a rel="nofollow" class="outbound_link" target="_blank" href="http://www.fark.com/goto/8479786/http://io9.com/the-worst-news-from-yesterdays-elections-1655150025" style="max-height: 1000000px; outline: 0px; height: 76px; vertical-align: middle; text-decoration: none !important; display: block !important;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Remember Senator Inhofe (R-OK) calling climate change "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people" and comparing the Environmental Protection Agency to the GeStaPo? Guess who will be the next chair of the Senate's Environment Committee.</span></font></a></span></td><td class="headlineComments" style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: middle; max-height: 1000000px; width: 80px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.fark.com/comments/8479786/Remember-Senator-Inhofe-R-calling-climate-change-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-American-people-comparing-Environmental-Protection-Agency-to-GeStaPo-Guess-who-will-be-next-chair-of-Senates-Environment-Committee" target="_top" style="max-height: 1000000px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">(227) </font></a><div class="hlSpacer" style="margin: 1px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 4px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; max-height: 1000000px; height: 16px; visibility: hidden;"></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div>Courtesy of <a href="http://io9.com">io9.com</a> at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://io9.com/the-worst-news-from-yesterdays-elections-1655150025">http://io9.com/the-worst-news-from-yesterdays-elections-1655150025</a></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><b>The Worst News from Yesterday's Election</b></div><div>Filed November 5, 2014 3:30 pm</div><div><br></div><div><p data-textannotation-id="bcd685fc2b05a467ea98594424a365a6" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Senator James M. Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who calls climate change "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people" and compared the Environmental Protection Agency to the gestapo, will <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120134/climate-change-denier-james-inhofe-lead-environment-committee" target="_blank" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">"almost certainly"</a> be <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">the next chair of the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee.</span></span></p><p data-textannotation-id="bcd685fc2b05a467ea98594424a365a6" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Senator Inhofe, who is poised to become the most powerful senator on the environment, is the same man who has compared the scientific consensus over manmade global warming to <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2006/07/24/6477/inhofe-third-reich/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Adolf Hitler's conception of the Jewish conspiracy</a>.</span></p><div id="inset_placeholder_1607297863" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><p data-textannotation-id="04a1fa90f03baedb0bf44705527856c1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Now, you might be asking yourself: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wait, is this the guy who compared the demonization of carbon dioxide to Hitler's demonization of Jews? </em>No. You're thinking of <a href="http://io9.com/climate-change-denying-physicist-compares-carbon-dioxid-1607297863" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">climate-denying physicist William Harper</a>. Senator Inhofe has a completely different Third-Reichian climate change theory. <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2006/07/24/6477/inhofe-third-reich/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">In a 2006 interview with Tulsa World</a>, Inhofe said of the scientific consensus on manmade climate change:</span></p><p data-textannotation-id="2c1ab5657666d637ec0174ea442b6dd4" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It kind of reminds... I could use the Third Reich, the big lie," Inhofe said.</span></p><p data-textannotation-id="dbea2fe50403ae300c632046fcc83a65" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Only Inhofe kind of flubbed the reference*. The "Big Lie," (or Große Lüge, in German) was a term <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">coined by Adolf Hitler in </a><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Mein Kampf</a></em> to describe the propaganda technique of Jews who purportedly told lies "so colossal" that no one would believe "others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously." (Yes, the climate scientists in this analogy are the Jews.)</span></p><p data-textannotation-id="20d337eced3a85ec9fa6f44b6a1d672f" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So, to clarify:</span></p><p data-textannotation-id="abc6b19640d6514c4f61c7ae31055734" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">"</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jews are carbon dioxide that we are demonizing" = William Harper.</span></span></p><p data-textannotation-id="88c02d1f55f3a0167a2ece7a0b804479" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">"C</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">limate scientists are Jews spreading lies" = Oklahoma Senator James M. Inhofe, the man likely to chair the Environment and Public Works Committee when the GOP takes control of the Senate next year.</span></span></p><p data-textannotation-id="1b025e5786edf83682fa2c75e66d83d2" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">And to make matters worse, </span><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/11/meet-new-climate-denier-caucus" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Inhofe will be joined by a few climate-denying friends</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</span></span></p><p data-textannotation-id="1e163bfa1fbc829e3495a3ea196e590e" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><small style="box-sizing: border-box;">*Of course, Inhofe almost certainly meant to attribute the notion of a "big lie" to the third reich itself, as opposed to Hitler's conceptions of Jewish conspiracy, but we're not going to spend any more time sifting through his intentions, because the fact is that dissecting the meaning of any analogy that conflates climate scientists with Nazis is patently insane.</small></span></p></div><div>--------------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>