Help Sen. Inhofe staff his Copenhagen truth squad

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) told the National Review recently that he’s going to lead a “truth squad” to the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen in December. And we know what version of truth he’ll be enforcing: that anthropogenic global warming is “the second-largest hoax ever played on the American people, after the separation of church and state,” as he told Bloomberg, and that we needn’t worry about global warming, as he told Fox, because “God’s still up there.”
This from the former chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Inhofe originally told C-Span he was going to Copenhagen as “a one man-truth squad,” but that began to seem a lonely prospect, so by the time he talked to the National Review he was thinking of expanding the squad: “I’ll see who’s willing to come.”
The mission is simple enough: to make sure world leaders don’t anticipate any cooperation from the United States in the effort to stop global warming, and while we’re at it, to scare Americans about taxes:
Now, I want to make sure that those attending the Copenhagen conference know what is really happening in the United States Senate. Some people, like Senator Barbara Boxer, will tell the conference, with Waxman-Markey having passed in the House, that they can anticipate that some kind of bill will pass EPW. Look, there is no bill that is bad enough to not pass out of our committee. There may be enough votes to get a bill out of EPW, but there is far from enough support in the Senate. The Democrats don’t have the votes. There are too many newly-elected Democrats in the Senate who don’t want to go home and tell voters that they just voted for the largest tax increase in American history.”
Who should join Sen. Inhofe on his truth squad? I can think of one figure, albeit from history, who posseses the proper ideology concerning religion and science: Robert Cardinal Bellarmine.
Cardinal Bellarmine sentenced Galileo to lifetime house arrest for endorsing Copernicus’s notion that the earth revolves around the sun.
If there were a real proof that the Sun is in the center of the universe,” Bellarmine is reported to have said, “that the Earth is in the third sphere, and that the Sun does not go round the Earth but the Earth round the Sun, then we should have to proceed with great circumspection in explaining passages of Scripture which appear to teach the contrary, and we should rather have to say that we did not understand them than declare an opinion false which has been proved to be true. But I do not think there is any such proof since none has been shown to me.”
So there you go. Global warming: where’s the proof? Bellarmine could be of great use to Inhofe at Copenhagen, just by raising that question. He’s also the man to have on your squad when things get heated. Bellarmine burned Fillipo Bruno at the stake in Rome because Bruno suggested the sun is one of many stars. Bruno gagged him, truth-squad style, lest any of his heretical ideas escape his mouth while he burned to death.
Who else should Inhofe take to Copenhagen?