If President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency proceeds with plans to bypass Congress and restrict carbon emissions through regulation, it will be even more costly to Americans than “cap and trade” legislation, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. predicted in an interview with the Washington Examiner this week.

Back in 2003, Inhofe stirred controversy when he declared, “With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it.” Ever since, he’s been one of the most recognizable and dedicated skeptics of global warming.