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Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) Snowball in the Senate (C-SPAN)

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Cited on HN 6 times, 2021–2025, never outright recommended score 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

HN commenters invoke it as a shorthand example of climate denial in politics, in threads about climate records and policy, usually critically.

A C-SPAN clip of Senator James Inhofe displaying and tossing a snowball on the Senate floor, used as an argument against global warming.

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@ttfkam Jan 2022 Pushes back
on HN thread Society has a trust problem. More censorship will only make it worse
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This is a man elected to the US Senate in 1994. First elected to Cross in 1987. Still there today. Guess which political party he belongs to. [this video] Folks are literally about to be put on respirators denying they're sick from Covid. They're rarely if ever left wing. [link] So yeah, one side has the lion's share of denying climate change and Covid. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to research which demographic has been promoting the consumption of urine as a protective measure against a respiratory and vascular disease-causing virus. It may be popular to blame politicians, but people need to take responsibility for voting for folks that espouse belief in Jewish space lasers. Whether you think the politician is putting up a front or honestly believes what they're peddling really doesn't matter in the long run if you're filling in the box next to their name on the ballot.
@melling May 2023 Pushes back
on HN thread Ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica hits new record
You don’t need to convince 8 billion people. You simply need to convince the handful of people in charge. Unfortunately, this climate change thing really throws some of those people: [this video] “Here’s a snowball, it’s very cold out…” We send some pretty low IQ people to DC.

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