U.S.-China pact is an accord the planet needed – The Washington Post

The incoming head of the Environment and Public Works Committee, Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma — a state where coal is not a big industry — has called climate change a “hoax” and a conspiracy to “shut down this machine called America.”

“God’s still up there,” Inhofe said on a radio program in 2012. “The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is, to me, outrageous.”

Inhofe’s view is theologically questionable and scientifically absurd, but there you have it: The senator with the most power to affect U.S. environmental policy does not believe climate change is conceivable, let alone real.

The problem for Republicans who want to stall climate action is that Obama can carry out his agenda without them.

U.S.-China pact is an accord the planet needed – The Washington Post

It’s possible that Inhofe isn’t the IDIOT he appears to be. If that’s true, he is an immoral bastard. Pick one.