Political Pwnage

Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, who happens to chair the Senate Environmental & Public Works committee, got a little silly after Al Gore testified on global warming before the Senate Foreign Relations committee:

Inhofe called Gore's message "desperate," and noted the irony of it being delivered on such an icy day in D.C. "They almost had to cancel it because of freezing weather, and last year they did cancel it because of cold weather," Inhofe said. "I'd say he has a real serious problem. But he's already made his $100 million, so I don't think he needs to worry too much about it. But the science and logic are on our side, and we are winning."

Why silly, say I? One: the science isn't on his side. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the 928 scientific abstracts published on the subject between 1988-2003 would appear to disagree. Completely.

...and two: the logic isn't on his side either. Senator Inhofe's observation of the irony of holding a meeting on global warming in the middle of a D.C. snowstorm is one of the simplest forms of logical fallacy: anecdotal evidence.

BYAH!