Inhofe: You know, it feels pretty good to be proven right

Last year, Senator Jim Inhofe traveled to the Copenhagen conference on global warming — the one buried in a record snowfall — to deliver a message to the gathered media: the US would not pass a cap-and-trade bill no matter what the Obama administration promised.  This year, the organizers had the sense to hold their conference in Cancun rather than in a snowbound European city, but Inhofe has decided to skip the trip this year.  Instead, he offered this missive to travelers from Americans for Prosperity going to Cancun to counterdemonstrate to encourage their efforts … and to gloat a little.  Well, okay, a lot:

We have come a long way since the last UN Climate meeting last year when President Obama, Hillary Clinton, Lisa Jackson, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry and dozens of lawmakers made their way to Copenhagen to tell the world that cap-and-trade was going to pass the United States Senate.  Yet the truth was it had no chance of passing.  To deliver that message, I traveled to Copenhagen as a one-man truth squad.  I was only on the ground for about 2 hours, perhaps the most enjoyable 2 hours of my life, but the message I delivered was clear; under no circumstances will Global Warming Cap and Trade legislation ever pass the United States Senate. The reporters and diplomats didn’t like it.  They hated me for telling the truth.  But here we are: I was right and they were wrong.

The fact is, nothing is going to happen in Cancun this year and everyone knows it.   I couldn’t be happier and poor Al Gore couldn’t be more upset: it has been widely reported that he is “depressed” about Cancun.

But let me be clear: despite our success over the past year, global warming alarmists will continue to push their agenda.  For example, some leaders in Cancun are stepping up their attacks on capitalism and United Nations officials are saying they need to do more to “spread the wealth around.” All of this is more of the same.

Remember it was French President Jacques Chirac, who said in 2000 that Kyoto Protocol was the “first component of an authentic global governance.” And Margot Wallstrom, the European Union’s former Environment Commissioner, who said in 2001 that Kyoto is about “trying to create a level playing field for big businesses throughout the world.”