Inhofe is already off to a great start in 2015, spouting pseudo-science and degrading the effectiveness of his new committee with inaccurate diatribes against global warming. Just this week, he made a speech on the Senate floor lambasting the "hysteria" surrounding climate change, while also "disproving" claims that the earth is getting warmer by bringing a snowball into the Senate chamber.
Obviously, Inhofe has a very hard time understanding the difference between changes in weather and changes in climate. And while he and others among the Religious Right may personally believe that the earth is fine due to their god's protection, most other Americans, both theistic and non-theistic, are extremely concerned with what the future holds if our federal government does not maintain a scientifically-accurate environmental policy.
While Inhofe might be the most powerful climate skeptic in Congress, he surely is not the only one. Senator Roger Wicker, a Religious Right politician that recently presided over the National Prayer Breakfast, voted against a resolution which stated that the Senate did not think global warming was a hoax. Senator Marco Rubio, a rising star who sits on the Senate Subcommittee on Science and Space, went as far as to say, "I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying. And I do not believe that the laws that they propose we pass will do anything about it." Perhaps most shocking is the fact that around 30 percent of all U.S. Representatives deny or question the science behind climate change.
When Senators Sabotage Science | Roy Speckhardt
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