James Inhofe, Oklahoma senator and climate change denier, dies at 89

Former U.S. senator James M. Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican who served for nearly 30 years in the U.S. Senate, where he chaired the Armed Services and Environment committees and became known as an outspoken skeptic of climate change, died July 9 at 89., citing a statement from his family. Other details were not immediately available.

Mr. Inhofe retired from the Senate in January 2023 after a nearly six-decade political career that began with stints in both chambers of the Oklahoma legislature and as mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s second-largest city. He served for nearly eight years in the U.S. House of Representatives before he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1994. Mr. Inhofe became his state’s longest-serving member of the chamber and a “rock-ribbed and senior figure in the Republican Party,” said Norman J. Ornstein, a congressional scholar and senior fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.Mr.

In 2012, he published a book called “The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future.” In 2015, while serving as chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, he“It’s very, very cold out. Very unseasonable,” Mr. Inhofe said, before tossing the snowball to the sitting Senate president.

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Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma dies at 89Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe, a conservative firebrand known for his strong support of defense spending and his denial that human activity is responsible for the bulk of climate change, has died. He was 89.
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