In February 2015, early in what was once the hottest year in human history, the former Senator James Inhofe addressed his colleagues on the Senate floor wielding a snowball that had been scooped up outside the Capitol. The dedicated climate denier’s point was, basically, “Snowball exists, therefore climate change does not.”

We can all laugh at this now (and in fact we did at the time, even on a day when we were also busy laughing at runaway llamas and The Dress; it was the greatest day in internet history). But Inhofe’s sentiment is still a go-to pillar of climate denialism to this day: “It is cold where I am, therefore the planet cannot possibly be warming.”

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Subzero Days Don’t Contradict Climate Change

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12.01.2024

In February 2015, early in what was once the hottest year in human history, the former Senator James Inhofe addressed his colleagues on the Senate floor wielding a ........

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