My latest DeSmogBlog post is about the hearing currently underway before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Energy and Power, concerning the so-called "Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011." (Yeah. I know.) Anyway, the post starts off like this:
The big news so far from the current hearing...is that Senator James Inhofe, the leading climate change denier in the U.S. Congress, has a book coming out. Inhofe had crossed chambers to testify in favor of the new legislation, which he co-authored with Energy and Commerce chair Fred Upton and subcommittee chair Ed Whitfield, and which would block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. And in response to a question from Upton, Inhofe took the opportunity to mention his book, telling the committee that he just finished it and that it will be entitled "The Hoax.” The title, presumably, refers Inhofe’s most (in)famous statement: His 2003 claim that climate change is the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.” I suppose it’s kind of like Carl Sagan entitling one of his last books Billions and Billions. Sagan didn’t like being remembered by that phrase, which he'd never actually uttered--but it’s much better than the one Inhofe is going to be remembered by, and did use to dismiss climate change.
You can read the full post here.
