Zomblog in the Senate

Barbara Boxer gets PWNED big-time. Zombietime's main website is here and they publish photos of some of the more interesting demonstrations in the Berkeley/San Francisco area. Zombie also has a blog here and the post from March 3rd is a delightful read:

Zomblog post read aloud in the Senate
How often do blog posts make it into the Senate record?

I�m not sure, but we now know at least one has made it that far:

Part of a post I wrote back in 2009 was read verbatim today in the United States Senate by Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) during a debate about the �global cooling� fad among scientists in the early 1970s.

As detailed succinctly by Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air, the argument started when Senator John Barrasso cited several media reports from the �70s warning that scientists now think the planet is threatened by a looming �ice age.� Senators Barbara Boxer and Tom Udall then reply by entering into the Senate record a recent USA Today article which claims that the global cooling thesis in the �70s never quite reached the level of complete scientific consensus.

It was at this point that Senator Inhofe shoots back a zinger, taking a page printed out from my zomblog post of September 16, 2009 entitled John Holdren in 1971: �New ice age� likely, and reading the words written by the man who is now Obama�s top �science czar,� John Holdren, warning of the perils of the coming ice age.

The reason I�m 100% positive that Inhofe was reading a page printed from zomblog is that he read not just the Holdren essay I dug up, but actually a short passage of my own introductory words before he gets to the Holdren part.

As you can see at my original post linked to above, I wrote in 2009,

�Below is a direct scan from pages 76-77 in the book Global Ecology��

�followed by a transcription of Holdren�s essay.

Reading from a printout, here�s what Inhofe said (starting at 3:15 into the video):

�What he had written was, �Below is a direct scan from his pages 76-77 of his book, he said��

�followed by the same transcription.

Now, even without this telltale recitation of my own words, I would have known that the testimony would have been at least based on my post, since I was the first person to dig deep and recover Holdren�s old writing from the memory hole, and that my posts were the first expos�s on the topic. But the fact that Inhofe actually read my introductory sentence confirms it conclusively: zomblog is now part of the Senate record!

Here�s the video showing the whole exchange:

Heh. That AGW is Politics and not Science rears its ugly little head again...