The Associated Press: Inhofe quote

"Science must be the backbone of what EPA does," said Jackson. "EPA's addressing of scientific decisions should reflect the expert judgment of the agency's career scientists and independent advisers."

Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, the top Republican on the committee and a supporter of Bush administration policies, said "that was music to my ears."

"I hope that includes a recognition that science changes," said Inhofe, who readily publicizes research from global warming detractors.

OpinionEditorials.com – Global warming cooling off? - Sernoffsky

In 1971, perhaps entertaining thoughts of entering the full-time ministry, Al Gore, raised in, and baptized into, the Southern Baptist Church, entered the Vanderbilt Divinity School.

His sojourn was relatively brief. In three semesters, he enrolled in eight classes. He received an “F” as his grade in five of those classes. So, having failed out of school, he entered the family business, which was politics. But he apparently never lost his desire to enter a ministry, and since he couldn’t make the grade in the conventional sense, he did the next best thing. He started his own religion.

The result was the Church of Global Warming. With Gore as its high priest, the Church was not long in establishing its tenets of faith, nor in immediately branding those who refused to worship there as apostate.