TU Professor Says Inhofe Is Wrong On Global Warming

By Dan Bewley, The News On 6

TULSA, OK -- Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe and Representative John Sullivan were in Copenhagen at the climate conference this week representing the United States.

Senator Inhofe is widely recognized as one of the biggest critics of global warming.

In a video on his YouTube channel, the Oklahoma senator is surrounded by a mob of international reporters during his visit to Copenhagen for the conference on climate change.

Senator Inhofe told reporters the U.S. is a long way from passing any law aimed at taxing carbon emissions.

"I believe that we owe it, we in the United States, owe it to the 191 countries to be well informed and know what the intentions of the United States are, the United States is not going to pass a cap and trade, as it was suggested by April 22, it's just not going to happen," Senator Inhofe told reporters.

The senator has long been a critic of man-made global warming, calling it "the greatest hoax perpetrated on the American people."

"I don't agree with that at all," said Jim Derby.

Jim Derby is a geologist and professor at the University of Tulsa.

He's a former consultant in the petroleum industry and admits he didn't buy into man-made global warming.

But now, he says, the evidence is clear that man is putting too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for nature to filter out.

"There's no question in my mind that the science is competent, the science is good," Derby said.

Senator Inhofe points to more than a thousand e-mails leaked from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Great Britain.

He says the e-mails prove that researchers cooked the science to get the results they wanted to support global warming.

"I do believe an investigation would show that they are clearly manipulating the data," Senator Inhofe said.

Derby says that is simply not true and hopes the U.S. takes more control over carbon emissions.

Senator Inhofe says that would mean more taxes and job losses.

The two sides, for now, will remain deadlocked.

According to Senator Inhofe, the main reason he went to the conference was to let other countries know that any emission-reducing legislation in the U.S. will not pass and that anyone who says otherwise is simply lying.