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Oklahoma's Climate Change Deniers

Meet Oklahoma's climate change deniers.
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Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK-01)

Climate change denier

"While the environment should be protected and global warming studied, global warming should not drive national energy policy without clearer evidence."
[United States Congressman Jim Bridenstine]

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Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK-02)

Climate change denier

"I haven't seen the reports that would get me to believe that anything's different than the patterns that we had that we've gone through through the time of records. All of our records we've hit in heat waves, look at them. They're in the 1930s. Dust bowl happened way before your and I's time. And the cycles we had, we had cold winters growing up and we've had mild winters growing up."
[ThinkProgress]

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Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK-03)

Climate change denier

"Most telling of the EPA's irrational regulatory approach is how the EPA has concluded that the breath that we exhale, the gas that livestock expels, are dangerous pollutants and should be regulated by the Clean Air Act."
[The Huffington Post]

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Rep. Tom Cole (R-OH-04)

Poor climate change voting record

Co-sponsored H.R. 391, which would amend the Clean Air Act "to provide that greenhouse gases are not subject to the Act," and see that "shall be treated as authorizing or requiring the regulation of climate change or global warming."

"Though it is unlikely that Congress will enact climate change legislation soon, it is very possible that the Obama administration will bypass Congress and attempt to regulate greenhouse gasses by administrative fiat. This is why I have co-sponsored H.R. 391, which would prohibit the administration from regulating greenhouse gases."
[Congressman Tom Cole, Serving the 4th District of Oklahoma]

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Rep. Steve Russell (R-OK-05)

Climate change denier

Introduced an amendment%20FA1.PDF) to H.B. 2341, a school improvement plan, called the "Scientific Education and Academic Freedom Act, which would encourage teachers to "to find more effective ways to present the science curriculum where it addresses scientific controversies," such as "global warming." This amendment was considered to be anti-science by some science education groups.

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Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK)

Climate change denier

"To my knowledge, nobody has uttered the term 'global warming' since 2009. It's been completely refuted in most areas… Those people who really believe that the world's coming to an end because of global warming and that's all due to manmade, anthropogenic gases, we call those people alarmists… I really believe it's the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people."
[Politico]

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Sen. James Lankford (R-OK)

Climate change denier

"This whole global warming myth will be exposed as what it really is—a way of control more than anything else. And that generation will be ticked."
[The Edmond Sun]

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