It has been made, by the senator who brought a snowball into the chamber and by many in the Denier crowd, most loudly on talk radio, after the great New England snowstorm a few years ago, when more than three feet of the stuff fell in some places, and excessive moisture was seen as excessive cold.
LOL...
Context is everything.
I'll bet your AGW priests you listen to only presented that small snippet.
Here is a link to C-Span:
February 26, 2015, Senate Session, Part 2
Here is the first part of the transcript for context that starts 1:53:33 in the video:
MR. INHOFE: MR. PRESIDENT? THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE SENATOR FROM OKLAHOMA. MR. INHOFE: I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT I BE RECOGNIZED AS IF IN MORNING BUSINESS FOR SUCH TIME AS I SHALL CONSUME. THE PRESIDING OFFICER: WITHOUT OBJECTION. MR. INHOFE: MR. PRESIDENT, I'M REMINISCENT WITH THE SNOW ON THE GROUND, OF FIVE YEARS AGO, AND THE OCCUPIER OF THE CHAIR, I SAY, MR. PRESIDENT, WAS NOT HERE AT THAT TIME, AND SO YOU DON'T HAVE THE ADVANTAGE OF KNOWING THE STORY THAT'S BEHIND THIS. AND THE STORY THAT'S BEHIND THIS WAS THAT'S BACK WHEN THEY FIRST STARTED ALL THE HISSSTERRIA ON GLOBAL WARMING AND IT HAPPENED TO BE A SNOWSTORM THAT HAD BEEN UNPRECEDENTED. SET A RECORD THAT YEAR AND THERE'S A CHARMING FAMILY OF SIX I SAY TO MY FRIEND IN THE CHAIR THAT BUILT THIS AND THEIR PICTURE IS HERE. AND THAT HAPPENS TO BE MY DAUGHTER AND HER FAMILY OF SIX. AND AT THAT TIME IT GOT A LOT OF ATTENTION, ACTUALLY GOT A LOT OF NATIONAL ATTENTION AND IN CASE WE HAVE FORGOTTEN BECAUSE WE KEEP HEARING THAT 2014 HAS BEEN THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD, I ASK THE CHAIR, YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS? IT'S A SNOWBALL JUST FROM OUTSIDE HERE. SO IT'S VERY, VERY COLD OUT. VERY UNSEASONABLE. SO, MR. PRESIDENT, CATCH THIS. WE HEAR THE PERPETUAL HEADLINE THAT 2014 IS -- HAS BEEN THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD. BUT NOW THE SCRIPT HAS FLIPPED AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT SINCE WE HEAR IT OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN ON THE FLOOR OF THIS SENATE. SOME OUTLETS ARE REFERRING TO THE RECENT COLD TEMPERATURES AS THE SIBERIAN EXPRESS, AS WE CAN SEE WITH THE SNOWBALL OUT THERE, THIS IS TODAY, THIS IS REALITY. OTHERS ARE PRINTING PICTURES OF A FROZEN NIAGARA FALLS, 4,700 SQUARE MILES OF ISLES THAT FORMED ON THE GREAT LAKES IN ONE NIGHT. IT'S NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. SO LET'S TALK MORE ABOUT THE WARMEST YEAR CLAIM. ON JANUARY 16, NASA'S GODDARD INSTITUTE OF SPACE STUDIES AND THE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION -- THAT'S NOAA -- CONCLUDED THAT 2014 WAS THE WARMEST YEAR IN MODERN RECORD WHICH STARTS IN 1880. NASA RELIED ON READINGS FROM OVER 3,000 MEASURING STATIONS WORLDWIDE AND FOUND AN INCREASE OF JUST .2-DEGREE OVER THE PREVIOUS RECORD -- .02-DEGREE OVER THE PREVIOUS RECORD. THE POINT LEFT OUT WAS THAT THE MARGIN OF ERROR WHICH ON AVERAGE IS 0.1% DEGREE CELSIUS, SEVERAL TIMES GREATER THAN THE AMOUNT OF WARMING, AND SO IN REALITY IT IS SO FAR WITHIN THE MARGIN OF ERROR THAT IT IS NOT REALLY RECORDABLE. THIS DISCREPANCY WAS QUESTIONED AT A PRESS CONFERENCE AND NASA'S GISS DIRECTOR BACKTRACKED. THIS IS THE GODDARD INSTITUTE OF INSTITUTE OF SPRAYS STUDIES, BACKTRACKED ON THE WARMEST YEAR HEADLINE SAYING THERE WAS ONLY A 38% CHANCE THAT 2014 WAS THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD. ANOTHER RECENT REPORT ISSUED BY THE BERKEY EARTH SURFACE TEMPERATURE PROJECT USING DATA FROM MORE THAN 30,000 TEMPERATURE STATIONS CONCLUDED THE -- THAT IN THE EVENT -- IF 2014 WAS THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD, IT WAS BY LESS THAN 0.01 DEGREES CELSIUS. AGAIN, BELOW THE MARGIN OF ERROR ULTIMATELY MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO CONCLUDE THAT 2014 WAS THE WARMEST YEAR. ADDITIONAL CLIMATE EXPERTS INCLUDING A UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA GEOPHYSICIST DAVID DEMOCRATTING HAVE STATED THAT THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD STATEMENT IS ONLY RELEVANT WHEN THE RECORD ACTUALLY BEGAN. OTHERS STATE THAT THE RECORD-SETTING CONCLUSIONS ISSUED IN THE JANUARY -- ISSUED IN JANUARY REQUIRE THE USE OF INCOMPLETE DATA BECAUSE THE PREPONDERANCE OF THE DATA RISE MUCH LATER FROM UNDERDEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING NATIONS.
He speaks for quite a while, so laughing at a short snippet is very, very ignorant.
