Inhofe: Cap and Trade is ‘Dead, Gone, Forever’

I wish I could be as certain, but I hope he’s right:

Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, the ranking Republican member of the Environment and Public Works committee, told The Daily Caller on Monday that climate change skeptics have won the debate over global warming on Capitol Hill.

“We’ve won the fight because there’s no way in the world they could pass through legislation a cap and trade bill,” Inhofe said, referring to proposed laws that would limit carbon emissions. “It’s dead, gone, forever.”

Inhofe, the author of “The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future,” says that he initially believed claims that humans were responsible for climate change. But after reviewing the science behind the claim, Inhofe now says he believes that the theory is a lie, and that the United Nations is largely responsible for promoting it.

“The history goes back to 1972 when this whole thing started,” Inhofe said. “And who was it? It wasn’t Al Gore. It wasn’t MoveOn.org. It was the United Nations.”

The United Nations, he said, has been promoting cap and trade style efforts to combat the non-existent threat of global warming for decades. And if such legislation were ever to make its way through Congress, he argued, it would amount to the largest tax hike in American history.

“I think this was orchestrated. Certainly I think it started with the United Nations, then the Hollywood elites jumped in,” Inhofe said. “Al Gore was clearly the leader, and he was very successful for a period of time. And the vast majority of Americans thought this was for real.”

Since “global warming” has nothing to do with fighting climate change (which some of its proponents will even admit to, from time to time) and everything with regulating how you and I live, if indeed its moment has passed, (which again, I’m not ready to believe) what will be the next coercive mechanism to control the masses?

Related: At Power Line, Steve Hayward adds:

I know I’ve shared the “Warmlist” here before—the compilation of all the things global warming is either causing directly or making worse (but rats—the link to the climate-acne nexus has gone dead).  It would be easier to list the bad things that climate change isn’t supposedly causing or making worse.  This is the mark of what philosophers call a “non-falsifiable hypothesis.”  Now the Guardian of London is warming that global warming is going to cause . . . earthquakes and volcanoes.  The lede is hilarious:

The idea that a changing climate can persuade the ground to shake, volcanoes to rumble and tsunamis to crash on to unsuspecting coastlines seems, at first, to be bordering on the insane.

Um, you should stick with that “insane” meme, mate.

Iowahawk was onto this meme nearly a decade ago, which boils down to the following scientific hypothesis: Fire Make Sea Gods Angry!