Bob McCarty Writes

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.)

Just over four years ago, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) delivered a speech about global warming on the floor of the Senate.  Today, in light of news that the ranking member of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has launched an investigation into apparent climate change fraud, I share below four of the best excerpts of the Nov. 15, 2005, speech in which Inhofe says the equivalent of “I smell a climate change rat”:

• I am committed to shining a light on their activities. Global warming alarmists will undoubtedly continue to accuse me of attacking the science of global warming – that is part of their game. But nothing could be further from the truth. I support and defend credible, objective science by exposing the corrupting influences that would subvert it for political purposes. Good policy must be based on good science, and that requires science be free of bias, whatever its conclusions.

• “Methodologically it is wrong: rubbish.”

• “I believe the IPCC process is so flawed, and the institution, it has to be said, so closed to reason, that it would be far better to thank it for the work it has done, close it down, and transfer all future international collaboration on the issue of climate change…”

• It is my solemn hope that the IPCC will listen the words of Drs. von Storch and Stehr and not miss the opportunity to re-establish its credibility. Only then will its work product be useful to policymakers. If the IPCC remains committed to its current path, however, then Lord Lawson’s solution is the only viable one – the IPCC should be disbanded.

Click here to download a pdf of the entire floor speech.

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