FACTSHEET: Sen. James Inhofe
DETAILS
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)
27 June, 2007
Just last month, it was discovered that increasing wind shear from warming will reduce hurricanes, not increase them. Increasingly, prominent scientists are beginning to reject the global warming hype." - June 28 http://www.greenenvironmentnews.com/GovernmentCommittees/Opening+Statement+of+Senator+James+Inhofe:+Full+Committee+Hearing+on+Examining+Global+Warming+Issues+in+the+Power+Plant+Sector
Source: green environmental news
17 May, 2010
"Well, I was vindicated last December when the Climategate thing came out,
and all these people who had been sending stuff in, they uncovered some memos going back and forth on how they were going to try and make people believe that actually anthropogenic gases cause global warming." - May 17 http://www.votesmart.org/speech_detail.php?sc_id=553077&keyword=&phrase=&contain=
Source: Project Vote Smart
11 May, 2010
"Though Congress stepped up to the task, we can't forget that Exxon Valdez was politicized, and continues to be politicized, by certain activist groups bent on blocking access to America's domestic resources. I believe their actions made America more dependent on foreign oil, from countries that have few environmental restrictions... The fact that we have grown more dependent on foreign oil means we have more tanker traffic, and thus we have created greater risk of an accident occurring than what would normally be the case if we had produced the oil right here at home."
Source: Project Vote Smart
31 March, 2010
"If the President was really serious about reducing our dependence on foreign oil, and increasing the energy security of the U.S. military, he would work with me to pass legislation to repeal section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. The purpose of Section 526 is to prevent the Department of Defense from purchasing fuel from the Canadian Oil Sands-where there is an estimated 180 billion barrels of oil."
Source: Project Vote Smart
15 March, 2010
"The credibility of the IPCC is eroding, EPA's endangerment finding is collapsing, and belief that anthropogenic global warming is leading to catastrophe is evaporating. [Al] Gore seems to be drowning in a sea of his own global warming illusions."
Source: Project Vote Smart
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
green environmental news
http://www.greenenvironmentnews.com/GovernmentCommittees/Opening+Statement+of+Senator+James+Inhofe:+Full+Committee+Hearing+on+Examining+Global+Warming+Issues+in+the+Power+Plant+Sector
Project Vote Smart
http://www.votesmart.org/speech_detail.php?sc_id=553077&keyword=&phrase=&contain=