Inhofe has received monies from the fossil fuel industry . For example : " Exxon 's beneficiaries in Congress include the Oklahoma senator Jim Inhofe , who called global warming a hoax , and who has received $ 20,500 since 2007 , according to the Dirty Energy Money database maintained by Oil Change International . " On November 23 , 2009 , as the Climatic Research Unit email controversy emerged , Inhofe said the emails confirmed his view that scientists were " cooking the science " . On December 7 on the CNN program '' The Situation Room '' , Inhofe said that the emails showed that the science behind climate change " has been pretty well debunked " ; the fact checking organization PolitiFact concluded that Inhofe 's statement was false . On the same day , Inhofe said he would lead a three-man " truth squad " consisting of himself and fellow senators Roger Wicker and John Barrasso to the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen . Inhofe was unable to secure meetings with any negotiators or delegations to the conference and only met with a small group of reporters . The minority group of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works prepared a report on " the CRU Controversy " , published in February 2010 , which listed as " Key Players " 17 scientists including Mann and Phil Jones . Inhofe said it showed that the controversy was " about unethical and potentially illegal behavior by some of the world 's leading climate scientists . " On May 26 Inhofe formally requested that the Inspector General of the United States Department of Commerce investigate how the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) had dealt with the emails , and whether the emails showed any wrongdoing ; it found no major issues or inappropriate actions
Climatic Research Unit email controversy
Climatic Research Unit email controversy
Jim Inhofe