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Sen. Sanders: Inhofe ‘dead wrong’ on climate change
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will use a Senate floor speech Monday afternoon to take aim at Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Capitol Hill’s leading global warming skeptic, ahead of a Wednesday hearing on climate science.
The speech arrives as record-setting heat and other extreme weather events this summer are prompting an uptick in political attention to global warming, although emissions-capping legislation remains dead in Congress.
Sanders, according to his office, intends to say in the floor speech
that Inhofe is a driving force behind GOP resistance to action to
address climate change, even though the Oklahoma senator’s views are far
outside the scientific mainstream.
“For better or worse, when
Sen. Inhofe speaks, the Republican Party follows. And when the
Republican Party follows, it is impossible to get real work done in the
Congress,” the Vermont lawmaker says in his prepared remarks.
Inhofe is the top Republican on the Environment and Public Works
Committee, of which Sanders is a member. The committee will gather Wednesday
for a hearing on climate science.
“When Senator Inhofe says global warming is a hoax, he is just dead wrong according to the vast majority of climate scientists,” Sanders intends to say later Monday, remarks that note
the many scientific organizations that state that global warming is occurring and human activities are a major driver.
Sanders implores Congress to "get serious about global warming" and "deliberate with facts not myths."
