Unsurprisingly, it is based on flat-out lies.

We're not talking about "you can interpret the data to support Inhofe's position." We're talking about taking studies that say "X," and Inhofe and his staff releasing reports based on the argument that those reports say "the opposite of X," and using them to describe as "lunatics" anyone who can read the study and realize that it says "X."

He did this last year, too, and it was every bit as dishonest then:

Examining last year's list highlighted the absurdity of it all.

• Inhofe's list included 413 people.
  (Score one Inhofe; the math helds up. Haven't counted the 650 probably will add up.)
• 84 have either taken money from, or are connected to, fossil fuel industries, or think tanks started by those industries.
• 49 are retired
• 44 are television weathermen
• 20 are economists
• 70 have no apparent expertise in climate science
• Several supposed skeptics have publicly stated that they are very concerned about global warming, and support efforts to address it. One claims he was duped into signing the list and regrets it.

Let's take a look at just one case from last year, documented by Andrew Dressler in January 2008:

Meteorologist George Waldenberger is on the list. In response, George sent an email to Inhofe’s staffers that began:

Take me off your list of 400 (Prominent) Scientists that dispute Man-Made Global warming claims. I’ve never made any claims that debunk the “Consensus”.

You quoted a newspaper article that’s main focus was scoring the accuracy of local weathermen. Hardly Scientific … yet I’m guessing some of your other sources pale in comparison in terms of credibility.

You also didn’t ask for my permission to use these statements. That’s not a very respectable way of doing “research”.

Yet, as Dessler notes, “he’s still on the list.”

How dishonest is Inhofe? Waldenberger is included in the 2008 report too, a full year after asking Inhofe to stop misrepresenting his statements. That's just the kind of amoral man that Jim Inhofe is, while claiming that he is "Oklahoma."

Inhofe lies like this to scare people like this because he can't win an honest debate. The man is 74 years old, and it would be nice if someone forced him to have an honest debate just once in his incompetent, crooked life.

Despite winning re-election through an equally dishonest ad campaign (and thanks to local news media that refuse to challenge him on anything), his days of scaring people like this are numbered. With the exception of the Oklahoma City and Tulsa news media, no one is afraid of Jim Inhofe anymore. Without that fear, Inhofe has nothing. It's not like he majored in competence as a backup.

I've not pulled punches about how badly I think Brad Carson ran his 2004 Senate campaign against Tom Coburn, trying to be "Republican Lite" in a state where voters pick the real thing over the fake thing every time. I have little use for the DINO who replaced him in the House, either.

But this deserves praise:

TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Former two-term Oklahoma Congressman Brad Carson will be deploying out of state as a member of a military reserve unit.

Cherokee Nation spokesman Mike Miller says the 41-year-old Carson will leave his current post as CEO of Cherokee Nation Businesses.

Good on ye, Mr. Carson, and remain safe if you are deploying to a combat zone.