The senator who once famously declared that global warming was the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people” has now moved on to President Barack Obama.
In comments made to an Oklahoma news outlet, Sen. James Inhofe (R-KN) declared Obama’s speech in Cairo attempting to ameliorate tension between the United States and the Muslim world “un-American,” because he referred to the war in Iraq as a “war of choice,” “and didn’t criticize Iran for developing a nuclear program.”
Inhofe “also criticized the president for suggesting that torture was conducted at the military prison in Guantanamo, saying, ‘There has never been a documented case of torture at Guantanamo,'” The Oklahoman wrote.
Sen. James Inhofe (R-KN).
“I just don’t know whose side he’s on,” Inhofe told the paper.
Inhofe hasn’t shied from the limelight over his zealous defense of global warming skeptics. In 2005, in Senate floor speech, he stood by his remarks calling climate change a “hoax” and said that “environmental extremists” were simply using the issue as a fundraising tool.
“Environmental extremists exploit the issue for fundraising purposes, raking in millions of dollars, even using federal taxpayer dollars to finance their campaigns,” Inhofe quipped.
“For these groups, the issue of catastrophic global warming is not just a favored fundraising tool,” he added. “In truth, it’s more fundamental than that. Put simply, man-induced global warming is an article of religious faith. Therefore contending that its central tenets are flawed is, to them, heresy of the most despicable kind.”