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James Mountain "Jim" Inhofe or 'Senator Snowball' (1934–2024) was the batshitwingnut who served as the seniorSenator from the state ofOklahoma. God help them.

He was one of the leadingglobal warming deniers in Congress and is well known for having called it "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." He was also one of theRepublican Party's leaders in theculture wars, and is bucking to be a candidate for theLégion des Crèches Américain with crossed Tannenbaums in theWar on Christmas. This should come as no surprise considering that he's a member of thefundamentalist bloc calledThe Family.

Inhofe also made astupid risky (but alas, non-monetary)prediction, namely thatMitt Romney would win by a "substantial margin" (undefined, of course) in the midst of taking a predictable shot atBarack Obama onBryan Fischer'sFocal Point.^[3]

Inhofe ultimately retired at the end of the 117^th United States Congress, at the ripe young age of 88.

Military service[edit]

Inhofe was a licensed commercial pilot who learned to fly while serving in theUS Navy. An objective account of his Navy career is difficult to find; he didn't even mention it on his official Senate website. But, since he was 17 years old when theKorean War ended and about 31 when theVietnam War heated up, it's likely that most if not all of his Navy career was limited to peacetime non-combat duties. Still, because he actually served in the military —unlikesomeoftheothernumeroustoo-busy-to-volunteer-for-military-servicenon-veteranbackersoftheWar on Terror — it's difficult to say that his hardcore support of sending troops into harm's way qualified him as achickenhawk.

Inhofe on climate change[edit]

Inhofe was probably the most vocal climatedenialist in the US Congress and has virtually declaredWar on Science^[5] in the process. According to Inhofe,AGW is "the second-largest hoax ever played on the American people, after theseparation of church and state"^[6]:xi (no, we're not repeating that again). As "evidence" that global warming is a hoax, Inhofe has cited theOregon Petition, and he persisted in saying that there is ascientific consensus that climate is gettingcooler. In 2010, he said "I don’t think that anyone disagrees with the fact that we actually are in a cold period that started about nine years ago."^[7] An indication of what he meant by "anyone" may be gleaned from an appearance in Voice of Christian Youth America’s radio program to promote his bookThe Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future, where he argued that climate change is refuted by theBible and hence a particularly popular idea amongliberals whereasChristians reject it (note the contrast).^[8]

In an address to the 2006Values Voter Summit, Inhofe asserted that global warming is aconspiracy cooked up by the UN to destroy America,^[9] and in his own words climate science "kind of reminds ... I could use theThird Reich, the Big Lie ..." He also compared the United States Environmental Agency to theGestapo andEPA Administrator Carol Browner toTokyo Rose.Who, precisely, is behind the conspiracy seems to vary, however — after blaming it onGeorge Soros, he seemed to have addedMichael Moore andMoveOn.org to the list of people who are really behind the alleged climate change hoax.^[10]

Among his global warming-related efforts, he was particularly infamous for his 2008list of "high-profile scientists" who allegedly oppose AGW,^[11] a list that overlapped with theDiscovery Institute roster and knownHIV denialists,^[12] plus several climatescientists who explicitly accept AGW. The list was heavily criticized for its profound dishonesty,^[13] including systematic misrepresentation of climate scientists,^[14] resume inflations,^[15] andquote-mining.^[16][17] After massive criticism, Inhofe changed the list to "scientists whose research undermines AGW", despite numerous complaints from the scientists that their research did no such thing.

In 2015, Inhofe claimed to disprove global warming by bringing a snowball and tossing it on the Senate floor.^[18]

Inhofe's granddaughter came home from school and challenged him over his climate change denial. Inhofe decided teachingscience at school brainwashes kids.^[19]

Oklahoma bombing[edit]

In the hours following thebombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Inhofe made a statement on TV that pissed off a lot of federal employees. When asked about casualties, he said that he doubted that there would be many because, since the federal offices opened at 9 a.m., most of the employees would probably still be somewhere else drinkingcoffee,^[20] perhaps forgetting that he was also a federal employee (the bombing occurred at 9:02 a.m.). However, whenBill Clinton said that the demagogy onconservative talk radio contributed greatly to this act of domesticterrorism — a claim that Clinton reiterated on the 15^th anniversary of the event^[21] — Inhofe was outraged both times because he thought that Clinton was trying topoliticize the bombing.

See also[edit]

• Marc Morano, his hired propagandist

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