Obama Calls Inhofe’s Senate Floor Snowball ‘Disturbing’
Obama On Inhofe Snowball Stunt: ‘That’s Disturbing’
BY JASON PLAUTZ, National Journal
President Obama said it was “disturbing” that the chair of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee had tossed a snowball on the Senate floor last month in a bid to disprove the reality of climate change.
In an interview with VICE News founder Shane Smith released Monday, Obama discussed how politics have made climate change one of “the hardest problems to solve.”
Smith pointed to the stunt from the Oklahoma Republican, which was meant to show how unseasonably cold it was in February despite coming after the warmest year on record.
“Throwing a snowball would be funny if it weren’t the fact that he’s chairman of the Senate Committee on the Environment,” Smith said.
“That’s disturbing,” Obama fired back.