Jim Inhofe gets cool reception in Denmark - - POLITICO.com

Another reporter — this one from Der Spiegel — told the senator: “You’re ridiculous.”

Inhofe ignored the jab, fielded a few more questions, then raced to the airport for the nine-hour flight back to Washington.

After Inhofe left, some reporters were still a bit confused about what had happened and who he was.

Markey Misleads the Public

On the CNN Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, he states: “Alaska is now 6 degrees warmer in the winter than it was 50 years ago.”
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Six degrees! That sounds like a lot – but what does the data actually show?
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Between 1975 and 1980 it warmed up 15 degrees and has generally been cooling for the last 30 years.

BBC - Mark Mardell's America: Obama's hard sell on climate change

[Dick Shremmer, the president of Bear Petroleum] has worked in the industry since he was 15, he loves oil and profoundly disagrees with those in Copenhagen who cast it as a villainous pollutant, a threat to mankind.

He says it is all the biggest hoax since the millennium bug. He doesn't doubt that the climate is changing, but doesn't accept carbon is the villain, or that there is a villain in the piece.

» My Interview with WH Senior Adviser David Axelrod Row 2, Seat 4 « FOXNews.com

JOHN KERRY WAS HERE YESTERDAY AND SAID SENATE WOULD PASS CAP AND TRADE BY APRIL 22nd -, JAMES INHOFE WAS HERE TODAY AND SAID THAT HE WAS THERE TO TELL EVERYONE GATHERED AT THIS CONFERENCE THAT ITS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. WHOS RIGHT?

Senator Inhofe has also said that he thought that global warming, climate change was a hoax. And I think that the scientific evidence [like what?] is very much to the contrary so I don’t think he is up to date on the science and I don’t think he's up to date on the science and I don’t think he’s up to date on the politics of this issue in the Senate either.

Inhofe's Big Trip to Copenhagen to Rail Against Global Warming 'Hoax' Only Lasts Two Hours : TreeHugger [Brian Merchant weighs in]

He got off the plane with a single staffer , held a press conference, said a few more dopey things about climate change being a hoax, and got back on the plane. His entire trip lasted only a couple hours, and evidently his "truth squad" was too embarrassed to join him.

Brian Merchant, Brooklyn, New York : TreeHugger

Brian Merchant is a writer, blogger, and editor living in Brooklyn, NY. He covers politics for TreeHugger, with a focus on climate and energy issues. Though he started his writing career covering pop culture and independent music for the likes of Paste, Death + Taxes, and Citysearch.com, the overwhelming challenges presented by global climate change turned his passion towards environmental and social issues.