Rick Perry gets endorsement from James Inhofe.

Inhofe shares in Perry’s skepticism regarding climate change, having repeatedly called global warming “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people” and has argued the globe is moving into a “cooling period,” a theory Perry supported in his book “Fed Up!”

“He won’t cave in to the extreme environmental activists or the Hollywood crowd and their liberal agenda,” Inhofe said of Perry.

When Washington, D.C., was buried under snow in the winter of 2010, Inhofe and his family built an igloo with signs jokingly calling it Al Gore’s new home.

You know, it’s funny in one way, but it’s terrifying in another. The anti-science anti-intellectualism of the new Republican party is a worrisome thing.