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FACTSHEET: Sen. James Inhofe

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U.S. Senator (R-OK)
Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works

Sen. Inhofe has fought to keep the US government from accepting the scientific consensus on climate change.

KEY QUOTES

4 January, 2005
"As I said on the Senate floor on July 28, 2003, "much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science." I called the threat of catastrophic global warming the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people," a statement that, to put it mildly, was not viewed kindly by environmental extremists and their elitist organizations."
Source: Inhofe Press Release (2006)

4 January, 2005
"As I said on the Senate floor on July 28, 2003, "much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science." I called the threat of catastrophic global warming the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people," a statement that, to put it mildly, was not viewed kindly by environmental extremists and their elitist organizations."
Source: Inhofe Press Release (2006)

QUOTES

24 April, 2005
"I don't have to tell you about reading the Scriptures, but one of mine that I’ve always enjoyed is Romans 1, 22 and 23. You quit worshipping God and start worshipping the creation -- the creeping things, the four-legged beasts, the birds and all that. That’s their (the environmentalists') god. That’s what they worship. If you read Romans 1:25, it says, ‘and they gave up their God and started worshipping the creation.’ That's what we are looking at now, that’s what’s going on. And we can’t let it happen.
Source: CBN Website (2006)

24 April, 2005
"I don't have to tell you about reading the Scriptures, but one of mine that I’ve always enjoyed is Romans 1, 22 and 23. You quit worshipping God and start worshipping the creation -- the creeping things, the four-legged beasts, the birds and all that. That’s their (the environmentalists') god. That’s what they worship. If you read Romans 1:25, it says, ‘and they gave up their God and started worshipping the creation.’ That's what we are looking at now, that’s what’s going on. And we can’t let it happen.
Source: CBN Website (2006)

KEY DEEDS

Inhofe was a co-plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute in 2000, trying to bar the distribution or use of the National Assessment, which analyzed potential impacts of climate change on the U.S. The Bush administration settled the lawsuit with a statement saying that the report didn't represent official government policy.
Source: "Earth Last," The American Prospect, 5/7/04

Inhofe was a co-plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute in 2000, trying to bar the distribution or use of the National Assessment, which analyzed potential impacts of climate change on the U.S. The Bush administration settled the lawsuit with a statement saying that the report didn't represent official government policy.
Source: "Earth Last," The American Prospect, 5/7/04

ORGANIZATIONS

Competitive Enterprise Institute
Source: "Earth Last," The American Prospect, 5/7/04

Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy
Source: Annapolis Center Press Release 4/2/04

Center for Security Policy
Source: Right Web profile, Center for Security Policy

Tech Central Science Foundation or Tech Central Station
Source: Tech Central- Glassman 12/03

Washington Legal Foundation
Source: WLF Press Release (2006)

SOURCES

"Earth Last," The American Prospect, 5/7/04
article by Chris Mooney
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=7603

"Earth Last," The American Prospect, 5/7/04
article by Chris Mooney
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=7603

Annapolis Center Press Release 4/2/04
"Sen. James M. Inhofe to be Honored by the Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy"
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=125-04022004

Annapolis Center Press Release 4/2/04
"Sen. James M. Inhofe to be Honored by the Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy"
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=125-04022004

Right Web profile, Center for Security Policy
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/org/csp.php

Right Web profile, Center for Security Policy
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/org/csp.php

Tech Central- Glassman 12/03
Glassman describes Inhofe's work at COP-9 - breakfast interview
http://www.techcentralstation.com/121103F.html

Tech Central- Glassman 12/03
Glassman describes Inhofe's work at COP-9 - breakfast interview
http://www.techcentralstation.com/121103F.html

WLF Press Release (2006)
http://www.wlf.org/upload/030606PK.pdf

WLF Press Release (2006)
http://www.wlf.org/upload/030606PK.pdf

Inhofe Press Release (2006)
http://inhofe.senate.gov/pressreleases/climateupdate.htm

Inhofe Press Release (2006)
http://inhofe.senate.gov/pressreleases/climateupdate.htm

CBN Website (2006)
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/news/050429a.aspx

CBN Website (2006)
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/news/050429a.aspx