“I think I was right on that … It’s not whether or not we’re going into a global warming period. We were. We’re not now. You know, God’s still up there. We’re now going through a cooling spell.”

Sen. James Inhofe, in an Oct. 7 debate with Democratic challenger Andrew Rice, defending his notorious assertion that climate change is “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people”

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