Inhofe has blunt message for Copenhagen

USA Today:

The final week of the United Nations climate change summit boils down to a battle between President Obama and the self-described "skunk at the picnic."

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., who has called global warming a "hoax," plans to travel this week to Copenhagen. He'll stay just long enough — as few as three hours, he says — to tell heads of state that the Senate will not pass an energy bill that would limit greenhouse gas emissions.

"We know (the bill) is never going to go to a vote," Inhofe said in a recent interview. "It's dead. It's gone … I'm not going to allow them to think America is going to do something it's not."

Delegates from other countries say that without Congress' support, Obama won't be able to keep whatever promises he makes when he arrives here Friday to try to seal a deal on capping emissions. Without the full cooperation of the world's second-biggest emitter behind China, any broad agreement to address global warming by the 192 nations gathered in Copenhagen will simply fall apart, they say.

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The US is the only country whose emissions of "greenhouse gases" declined during the eight years of the Bush administration and that is without signing onto the Kyoto accords. Why should we sign onto a deal that others have not been able to live up to in the past? Why should we agree to an economic suicide pack that will forces us to use less efficient energy?