Jim Inhofe: “a phrase has been used recently called ``the tipping point.'' The American people will very soon be asked to support a…”

“a phrase has been used recently called ``the tipping point.'' The American people will very soon be asked to support a type of global warming cap-and-trade bill, legislation that has already had a hearing in the Environment and Public Works Committee. There are a couple other bills in the background. These bills come at a time when the science is overwhelmingly taking away the basis for alarm. I am going to use terms this morning. The alarmists are the ones who are mostly out in California, the far-left extremists, the Hollywood elitists, and others who feel this is a great alarm, the world is coming to an end--the same ones who said that another ice age was coming back in the middle 1970s. So we need to know what terms we are using. An abundance of new peer-reviewed studies, analyses, and data-error discoveries in the past several months have prompted scientists to declare that fear of catastrophic manmade global warming--I am using their terms now, the scientists' terms--``bites the dust'' and the scientific underpinnings for alarm are ``falling apart.''”