Climate-change denying Oklahoma Representative Jim Bridenstine thinks President Obama should apologize for global warming research

Not long after Oklahoma was ravaged by tornadoes, Republican Representative of the state - Jim Bridenstine - decided to make this intelligent statement:

"Even climate change alarmists admit the number of hurricanes hitting the U.S. and the number of tornado touchdowns have been on a slow decline for over 100 years. But here is what we absolutely know. We know that Oklahoma will have tornadoes when the cold jet stream meets the warm Gulf air, and we also know that this President spends 30 times as much money on global warming research as he does on weather forecasting and warning. For this gross misallocation, the people of Oklahoma are ready to accept the President's apology and I intend to submit legislation to fix this."

Ah, so Mr. Bridenstine is a scientist. Who are these "climate change alarmists" and what's the source of this information exactly? Take your time. I'll be waiting...

In the meantime, Tom Karl - Director of the National Climatic Data Center - had this to say about extreme weather in 2011:

"What we can say with confidence is that heavy and extreme precipitation events often associated with thunderstorms and convection are increasing and have been linked to human-induced changes in atmospheric composition."

On top of that, a survey was released last month which showed that of 12,000 peer-reviewed climate science papers by Skeptical Science's citizen science team, 97% agreed that humans are causing global warming.

So, President Obama should apologize for what exactly, Mr. Bridenstine? Based on the before-mentioned survey and analysis, it sounds like if anyone should be apologizing to Oklahoma residents, it's Representative Bridenstine - for ignoring a problem, and leaving the people he represents more apt to being negatively impacted by extreme weather.

Here's how the two hypothetical apologies would play out:

President Obama: "I would like to sincerely apologize to the good people of Oklahoma for demanding we thoroughly research global warming and its negative effects, which 97% of climate scientists believe is happening. I apologize for wanting to research the matter further so that we can hopefully try to make some changes to leave good people like all of you out of harm's way as much as is possible."

Representative Bridenstine: "I apologize for being so smart that I don't need those liberally-biased facts, numbers, or studies to know what is real and true. I just put my faith in a man I've never seen before - The Jesus - and trust that all will be well. God is real and science is not God!"

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/06/12/2141671/bridenstine-obama-climate-apology/

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/05/15/2014211/study-finds-97-consensus-on-human-caused-global-warming-in-the-peer-reviewed-literature/

http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/2/024024/article

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The verdict is in. To no one's surprise, Jonathan Hoenig has been found guilty of being an idiot.

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