{"id":1702,"date":"2011-03-03T10:58:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T18:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2011-03-03T22:31:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T06:31:13","slug":"zomblog-post-read-aloud-in-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/?p=1702","title":{"rendered":"Zomblog post read aloud in the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"

How often do blog posts make it into the Senate record?<\/p>\n

I’m not sure, but we now know at least one has made it that far:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

As detailed succinctly by Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air<\/a>, 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<\/i> article which claims that the global cooling thesis in the ’70s never quite reached the level of complete scientific consensus.<\/p>\n

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: \u201cNew ice age\u201d likely<\/b><\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

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<\/i> before he gets to the Holdren part.<\/p>\n

As you can see at my original post linked to above, I wrote in 2009,<\/p>\n

\n“Below is a direct scan from pages 76-77 in the book<\/b> Global Ecology<\/i>…”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…followed by a transcription of Holdren’s essay.<\/p>\n

Reading from a printout, here’s what Inhofe said (starting at 3:15 into the video):<\/p>\n

\n“What he had written was, ‘Below is a direct scan from his pages 76-77 of his book<\/b>, he said…”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…followed by the same transcription.<\/p>\n

Now, even without this telltale recitation of my own words, I would have known that the testimony would have been at least based<\/i> 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\u00e9s on the topic. But the fact that Inhofe actually read my introductory sentence confirms it conclusively: zomblog is now part of the Senate record!<\/p>\n

Here’s the video showing the whole exchange:<\/p>\n