{"id":770,"date":"2010-02-16T02:27:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T06:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=770"},"modified":"2010-02-16T02:27:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T06:27:13","slug":"month-2-day-16-to-the-dwarves-who-attend-the-evil-buffoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/month-2-day-16-to-the-dwarves-who-attend-the-evil-buffoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 2, Day 16: To The Dwarves Who Attend The Evil Buffoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

A DailyKos diarist named “Historian” produced a wonderful piece a few days ago, called “Ninety-Seven”<\/a>. I admired it greatly, and wondered about incorporating parts of it into one of my letters. This is the first pass, and I decided to send an email\/fax\/letter directly to the Evil Moran himself, James Inhofe. Or, rather, to the people who answer his email, read his faxes, open his envelopes.<\/p>\n

Because I figure my letter will never reach him, but it might actually get read by a human in his office. And who knows? Somebody might actually do some thinking. Stranger things have happened, albeit not very many.<\/p>\n

Dear Staffers in Senator Inhofe’s Office \u2014<\/p>\n

Let’s say a hundred health inspectors went over a restaurant. And ninety-seven<\/strong> of them said, “This food is unsafe; it’ll probably make you sick.”<\/em> Would you eat there?<\/p>\n

Or let’s say you were buying a house, and a hundred home inspectors looked at it \u2014 and three<\/strong> of them said, “It’s probably okay,”<\/em> while the other ninety-seven said, “This building is definitely unsafe.”<\/em> Would you buy the house?<\/p>\n

Or let’s say you found a lump. And a hundred oncologists looked at it. And ninety-seven<\/strong> of them said, “It’s cancer. Let’s get started on treatment.”<\/em> Would you get started on treatment, or would you go with the three who said, “Maybe not?”<\/em><\/p>\n

Or let’s say you’re the President, and a hundred C.I.A. counter-terrorism experts came to you…and ninety-seven<\/strong> of them said “Al-Qaeda is going to carry off a major operation,”<\/em> while three of them said “It might not happen.”<\/em> Would you put our national security system on high alert?<\/p>\n

I’m asking you this question rather than Senator Inhofe himself, because I don’t believe this letter will reach him…but there’s a chance one of you will read it, and perhaps wonder: <\/p>\n

Given that the answers to the first four questions are pretty obvious, why is it that when ninety-seven<\/strong> percent of climate scientists agree that humans are causing climate change, Senator Inhofe is so strongly in favor of doing nothing? <\/p>\n

He wouldn’t want to eat tainted food, or buy a house that was going to fall down around him, or ignore a cancer diagnosis…or put the nation at risk by ignoring a warning of a terrorist attack. Would he?<\/p>\n

Then why is he putting our nation (and our planet) at risk now?<\/p>\n

And, more to the point, why are you helping him do it?<\/p>\n

Our grandchildren will not be kind to the memory of Senator Inhofe and those who assisted him.<\/p>\n

Just ask yourself this question: What if the ninety-seven percent of climatologists are right?<\/p>\n

Think about it. Please. For all our sakes.<\/p>\n

Yours Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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