Elections have consequences. Thanks to the Republican takeover of the Senate this guy will now be in charge of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

Courtesy of The New Republic: 

In handing Republicans control of the Senate on Tuesday, Americans effectively voted for the party's hostile plans against President Barack Obama’s environmental legacy. Their votes also put the Senate's environment and climate policy into the hands of the worst science-denier in national politics: Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, who is almost certainly the next chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. 

Inhofe claimed in 2003 that global warming might help humanity. “It's also important to question whether global warming is even a problem for human existence. Thus far no one has seriously demonstrated any scientific proof that increased global temperatures would lead to the catastrophes predicted by alarmists. In fact, it appears that just the opposite is true: that increases in global temperatures may have a beneficial effect on how we live our lives.” In that same speech, he argued that an international body of climate change scientists “resembled a Soviet-style trial, in which the facts are predetermined, and ideological purity trumps technical and scientific rigor.” 

Inhofe refuted climate change science in 2012 by citing the Bible. “[T]he Genesis 8:22 that I use in there is that ‘as long as the earth remains there will be seed time and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night.’ My point is, God’s still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.”

I first heard this on election night from Rachel Maddow and I was hoping that there might be a slim possibility that she was wrong.

Nope.

So what do you think, since the UN says that most electricity must be produced through renewable energy by 20150,  we need to get off of fossil fuels altogether before 2100, do we think that Inhofe is going to do any work toward making that a reality?

Or do we think he is going to do everything in his power to defund climate science research and completely disregard any current findings that conflict with his belief that the climate is controlled by God with a thermostat in the sky?

We're doomed.