Whether Inhofe believes the earth is warming or cooling or staying the same,he should be worried that power plants are putting 30 trillion tons of CO2 into the air along with mercury, lead, cadmium, arsenic and radioactive isotopes. Much of those end up in the water and in the food chain. We are now finding mercury in fish even where there are no natural sources. The mercury in tuna has gone up 30% since 1990.
Like carbonated water, the oceans are now 20% more acidic than a century ago and if that keeps on species that make carbonate shells won't be able to do so. Saying adios to shrimp, crabs and lobsters will be hard but it is worse than that. The corals that form the fisheries and the plankton that that produce the dissolved oxygen and form the basis for the food chain also make carbonate shells.

It'll only get worse unless we act. It's OK if Inhofe calls me an alarmist - but he might want to consider that I'm also a chemist.

Needless to say, Inhofe's dangerous nonsense has been debunked repeatedly by scientists.

At the outset of Senate hearings on clean energy and climate legislation today, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Commitee, mockingly praised chair Barbara Boxer (D-CA) for mentioning “global warming” in a YouTube video about the bill. Inhofe claimed that people “have been running from that term” once “that [...]