The pre campaign environmental tour.

This is just kind of a pre-presidential campaign, get your name in the news Reuters piece. Lindsay Graham, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain took a photo op tour to the Yukon to look at the melting permafrost and listen to the local indigenous people talk about the end of their lifestyle. Not much really, but I just couldn't let the recap of Inhofe's position pass unmentioned.

The United States is the biggest emitter of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, which many scientists have linked to global warming.

Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has dismissed global warming as a hoax and questioned scientific evidence supporting rising temperatures.

The White House has warned that mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions could stunt U.S. economic growth. President George W. Bush supports a voluntary plan for industry to cut greenhouse gas output.