Is Sen. James Inhofe really the person we want chairing the Senate’s environment committee?

What’s all this talk about global hunger? I don’t know about you, but I just tucked into a burrito and there are plenty more where that one came from. But that doesn’t mean the nation’s soaring obesity rates are anything more than a rumor. Most of the people I work with look pretty darn good, so QED right?

Sen. Inhofe: If Global Warming Is Real, Where Did I Get This Snowball?

Sen. Inhofe: If Global Warming Is Real, Where Did I Get This Snowball?

Something similar is true of climate change—at least if you’re Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and a man tasked with knowing a thing or two about, um, the environment and public works. The Senator, who has made something of a cottage industry out of arguing that climate change is “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” at last has drop-dead, case-closed proof that he’s been right all along. The evidence: a snowball. And not just any snowball, one right there in Washington, DC!

Yup, guess that settles it, and global warming is a hoax invented by MoveOn.org, Michael Moore, and George Soros after all. Well done, Sen. Inhofe, you win. Not.