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Inhofe: Hey, I'm the Planet's Worst Enemy!

Senator upset with No. 7 ranking

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 15, 2010 12:14 PM CST

(Newser) – Sen. Jim Inhofe ranked No. 7 on Rolling Stone’s list of the “planet’s worst enemies,” and he’s hopping mad about it: He thinks he deserved to be first. “I should have been number one, not number 7,” the Oklahoma Republican tells the Tulsa World. “I am serious about that. I have spent now literally years on this thing, and it has been a long involved thing.”

He was happy, however, that the magazine credited him with being “one of the GOP’s loudest and most influential voices on climate change,” and with “diminishing America’s bargaining position at the Copenhagen climate negotiations.” Of course, the headline on the article is “You Idiots!” so maybe those weren't compliments, but Inhofe doesn’t care. “If you don’t have truth on your side… you have to revert to name calling,” he says.

In this  Aug. 27, 2008 file photo, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., Oklahoma's senior senator, is pictured during an AP interview in Oklahoma City.
In this Aug. 27, 2008 file photo, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., Oklahoma's senior senator, is pictured during an AP interview in Oklahoma City.   (AP Photo/File)
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JonmarkP
Jan 17, 2010 3:36 AM CST
You know who was first to notice global warming? Butterflies. They're extremely temperature-sensitive. In the mid 1980's, they started moving north about 4km per year. It puzzled the hell out of the British lepidopterologists who had been studying the same species in the same places for many years. The whole investigation into global warming started with those zoologists trying to figure out why British butterflies were migrating further and further north ever year.
AnnieOkie58
Jan 16, 2010 12:08 PM CST
Big_D.....Yes I agree to a point.. Inhofe and Coburn makes the state of Oklahoma look stupid and ass backwards...to me and many other Okies..those two are an embarrassment to those of us who did NOT vote them into office...so let me just say..please dont put all of us Okies in the same category of those Okies who did....OK !
kokuaguy
Jan 16, 2010 3:20 AM CST
VERY well said, JmP. Kudos.

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