When it comes to climate denial in the GOP Congress, there is no bigger name than Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe. Last year, Inhofe brought a snowball into the Senate Chambers and used it to argue that climate change is a hoax. As if a snowstorm disproves climate change.
And who does the author of, The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future, support as the GOP Presidential nominee? One would assume he would be backing the most vocal climate denier of the candidates, Ted Cruz. No. Senator Snowball likes Marco Rubio.
He told the Tulsa World, Rubio, "is the one I really do like. The reason I say that is he’s so knowledgeable,” Inhofe said. “I’d love to see him in a debate with Hillary (Clinton) just for my own personal entertainment.”
If Inhofe thinks Rubio is 'so knowledgeable,' that must mean Rubio is as bad on climate as Inhofe himself. After all, climate change is Inhofe's signature issue; he is one of the world's leading voices denying the existence of climate change. For those thinking Rubio is somehow more moderate on climate than other GOP candidates, look at the man who is close to endorsing Rubio's candidacy, the reigning king of climate denial.