Senator Inhofe : Global Warming is Exagerrated

the insults just validate his efforts to expose what he says are the lies and exaggerations of global warming alarmists. And, as he told the Oklahoma Impact Team, his efforts are finally paying off, because public opinion on the issue is shifting. Recent polls show this claim to be true. A Pew Research Center poll done last October showed that Americans who believe there’s “solid evidence the earth is warming” had dropped from 71 percent in 2008 to 57 percent. Also, a Gallup poll this March showed that the percentage of Americans who feel the seriousness of global warming is being exaggerated had jumped from 31 percent, in 2008, to 48 percent. Poll results like those have Senator Inhofe feeling, not only validated, but vindicated. “It was eight years ago that I got involved in this whole global warming, cap and trade thing,” Sen. Inhofe told to a group of voters recently at a town hall meeting in Perry. “I was called the worst person–well, the most dangerous man on the planet,” Inhofe said. “That’s what they called me at that time.” “That” time was not long after a signature speech Inhofe delivered on the Senate floor in July 2003, in which he offered “compelling evidence that catastrophic global warming is a hoax.” The speech thrust Inhofe into a position few, if any, other elected officials had publicly staked out — global warming denier. Not only was the self-proclaimed maverick saying that global warming is not being caused by human activity, he was saying global …