Despite this being the warmest year on record, Inhofe still insists that we are in a 9 year cold snap. He continues to deny that global warming exists.

Senator James Inhofe, an ardent global warming sceptic, is being accused of turning the row over climate science into a McCarthyite witch-hunt by calling for a criminal investigation of American and British scientists who worked on the UN climate body's report. Inhofe's actions represent an attempt to silence debate on the eve of new proposals for a climate change law.

Senator James Inhofe at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing remarked that since some Iraqis had done terrible things it was outrageous for anyone to be questioning Americans for having done anything terrible to anybody. If we have Iraqis locked up and if we are torturing them, they must deserve it, and it's a shame and a scandal that we're giving the Department of Defense a hard time over this trifle when they're out there protecting the flag and whatever. The fact that we have those Iraqis locked up is all the proof ...

In Senate floor speech in 2002, Sen. James Inhofe said that Israel is "entitled" to the West Bank and chastised those within the U.S. who have urged Israeli restraint, blaming them for Sept. 11. Inhofe's words could be interpreted to mean that God allowed airliners to be piloted into the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon because U.S. actions related to Israel were not to His/Her liking.