Everyone in the media who doesn't work in Oklahoma gets it:

Jim Inhofe grew up in a state that had learned two lessons: the impact human actions can have on a fragile environment, and the value of government programs in helping ordinary Americans in times of trouble.

It's too bad Inhofe didn't take those lessons to heart himself.

Instead, his political career is distinguished by the opposite beliefs: Inhofe is a notorious global warming denier and a harsh critic of government programs that help people. Though he frequently touts his "values," Inhofe voted, to cite just a few examples, against giving health insurance to children and veterans. Inhofe, a close supporter of Bush, shares the president's cynicism about government - as well as Bush's willingness to deceive people with high-minded rhetoric about "personal liberty" and "fiscal responsibility" while feeding the interests of his anticompetitive corporate buddies. In this way Inhofe, like Bush, ties himself to the failures of the cronyist Republican presidents of the 1920s, especially Hoover…and to the same set of policies that ultimately helped cause the Great Depression, one factor in Oklahoma's suffering during the Dust Bowl period.

Inhofe, in-between rushing to cash his checks from the oil companies (who can easily afford him), probably denies that there was a Dust Bowl, or if there was, blames it on Al Gore.