The Worst New Chairman?

Senator Jim Inhofe will now lead the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee. Quite clearly, that has impacts on U.S. environmental policy. For instance, his statement on last night's agreement with China:

"In the President's climate change deal, the United States will be required to more steeply reduce our carbon emissions while China won't have to reduce anything. It's hollow and not believable for China to claim it will shift 20 percent of its energy to non-fossil fuels by 2030, and a promise to peak its carbon emissions only allows the world's largest economy to buy time. China builds a coal-fired power plant every 10 days, is the largest importer of coal in the world, and has no known reserves of natural gas. This deal is a non-binding charade. The American people spoke against the President's climate policies in this last election. They want affordable energy and more economic opportunity, both which are being diminished by overbearing EPA mandates. As we enter a new Congress, I will do everything in my power to reign in and shed light on the EPA's unchecked regulations.”

Summarizing that: MOARRR COALLLLL! MOARRR OILLLLL! YUM, GASOLINE!

In all seriousness, Inhofe might be the worst chairman in the new U.S. Senate. While John McCain is a lunatic and Jeff Sessions wants to shut down the government, Inhofe will lead environmental policy, and he doesn't believe in climate change. The non-scientist (his words, not mine) says it's all a hoax, because somebody hates gas companies or something. He compares the EPA to the Gestapo, for what that's worth. Huffington Post chronicles some of his greatest stupid statements about the environment:

While other Republicans are mocked for dodging the the truth about climate change -- I'm not a scientist -- Inhofe thinks the topic is a moot point. "Nobody has uttered the term 'global warming' since 2009," he says. This assertion, while intensely dumb, is actually less embarrassing than others he's made in the past. Here's a collection of his wisdom on the topic:

Don't worry about climate change, Jesus is in charge.

• God's still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.

Environmental regulation reminds him of Hitler.

• What this country does not need is another Gestapo bureaucracy like the EPA

• It kind of reminds... I could use the Third Reich, the Big Lie. You say something over and over and over and over again, and people will believe it, and that's their strategy... A hot summer has nothing to do with global warming. Let's keep in mind it was just three weeks ago that people were saying, 'Wait a minute; it is unusually cool.'

Climate change can't be true if it costs money to fix.

• Addressing Rachel Maddow about the validity of climate science:
I was actually on your side of this issue when I was chairing that committee and I first heard about this. I thought it must be true until I found out what it cost.

Climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Weather Channel and Hollywood elites.

It's all about money. I mean, what would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore?

Climate change is good for you!

The claim that global warming is caused by manmade emissions is simply untrue and not based on sound science. CO2 does not actually cause catastrophic disasters. Actually, it would be beneficial to our environment and the economy.

In fact, increased CO2 emissions will help you live longer!

First of all, the one degree Fahrenheit rise coincided with the greatest advancement of living standards, life expectancy, food production and human health in the history of our planet. So it is hard to argue that the global warming we experienced in the 20th century was somehow negative.

And never forget, science is for suckers.

With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it.

All the scientists are wrong my friends- just listen to the Senator from Oklahoma, who's not a scientist...