Some of these "great thinkers" would likely have a very successful career as fiction writers ~ ~ Sooz

Senator James Inhofe Rejects The ‘Global Warming Thing’ Because It’s Cold Outside
By Rebecca Leber on January 6, 2014 at 6:01 pm

Cold weather tends to bring out the climate change deniers — in the Senate, that would be Senator James Inhofe (R-OK). On Monday, Inhofe pointed to freezing temperatures across the country to explain climate change science is both “laughable” and rigged.

Usually the first to seize on snowy weather to argue against climate action, Inhofe described how the United Nations invented the “global warming thing” as a power grab. In his words, U.N. climate change conferences to negotiate global action are nothing more than a “Global Warming Party” with “all you can eat” and “all you can drink.” He talked about how scientists were recently stuck in Antarctic ice, which to him was more proof climate change is not happening. It is Inhofe’s tradition to seize on wintry weather: Once in 2010, his family built an igloo during a blizzard called, “Al Gore’s new home.”

Despite what Inhofe says, scientists are not perplexed by the polar vortex. What’s happening is a temporary change in the jet stream, meaning cold polar air has taken “an excursion” down into more temperate latitudes. So some parts of the planet will experience cooler temperatures, but more parts will experience hotter temperatures. 2013, for example, could easily be the 7th-hottest year on record.

Inhofe’s home state of Oklahoma, meanwhile, has suffered through severe droughts and the hottest summer ever recorded in the U.S.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/01/06/3125531/inhofe-winter-climate-change/

See Sooz's article "inside Right Wing Love Affair With Conspiracy Theories". I've been waiting for someone to say "it's cold out, so there's no global warming." You know, if the guy wasn't a U.S. Senator - if he was just a guy on the street corner spouting his views about the U.N. plots, he would likely get invited by the guys in the white coats for a little chat.