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Receiving over a million dollars in campaign donations from Exxon and other petroleum companies during his time in office surely hasn't affected Inhofe's stance on the issue one bit.

Politico: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61996.html

Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s White House bid has won the backing of the Senate’s leading climate change skeptic.

Among other reasons, Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe told a home-state Chamber of Commerce audience Wednesday that he can’t get behind the GOP’s presumed presidential front-runner. Inhofe said he “likes Mitt Romney, but he's a little mushy on environmental issues.”

Inhofe, the top Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, is planning to formally endorse Perry next week, the Tulsa World reported Wednesday.

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Inhofe said Perry has the best shot among the GOP field of defeating President Barack Obama in the 2012 race, especially now that South Dakota Sen. John Thune is out of the running.

Inhofe said of Thune: “[H]e's taller than Obama is, he's better looking than Obama is, and he's the same age Obama is. He would have made a good candidate, but he's not running."

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Meanwhile, Texas is seeing record breaking heat and drought. What is Gov. Perry doing about it?

Withering fields in Texas, the largest U.S. grower, led Governor Rick Perry, a Republican presidential candidate and the son of a cotton farmer, to ask supporters to pray for rain to end a “monster drought” shrinking cattle herds and killing crops. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-28/dust-bowl-in-texas-means-cotton-bottoming-with-rick-perry-praying-for-rain.html

Texas Gov. Rick Perry stirred up controversy on the campaign trail recently when he dismissed the problem of climate change and accused scientists of basically making up the problem.

As a born-and-bred Texan, it's especially disturbing to hear this now, when our state is getting absolutely hammered by heat and drought. I've got to wonder how any resident of Texas - and particularly the governor who not so long ago was asking us to pray for rain - can be so cavalier about climate change. http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/08/2...messenger.html