This is a small snippet of the Senator’s speech to the 2006 Voter Values Summit. If you have the stomach for it, you can read more here. (this is a great site btw)

And so - get the scene now - back, that was, the ilk, the, the idea of this is that the, the, the climate is changing, it’s going up, and it’s due not to actual causes but due to the release of CO2 and what they call anthropogenic gasses. Man made gasses. The motive of this is to try to shut down this machine called America, stop building, stop - y’know - driving around and all these things and so - ah, anyway - we were just about to sign the Kyoto treaty when I became chairman of the committee that Gil talked about in his introduction, its called Environment and Public Works. Now, in this committee we have jurisdiction over this, uh, all these areas, so I thought “we need find out what the truth is about the Global Warming.

So the question above about Senator Inhofe above is a rhetorical one. He is a crazed lunatic to say the least.