Brainwashing. That’s the reason Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma gives when asked why his granddaughter questioned his lack of understanding regarding climate change. Quite a hoot from the guy who has taken more than $2 million from the PACs of oil, gas, and coal operators during his career in Congress. These donors include Koch Industries and Exxon, leading shapers of the sinister campaign to brainwash Americans into thinking that global warming is a fabrication and smearing climatologists who have for decades been raising the alarm. Inhofe is notorious for his incessant claims that climate change isn’t merely bad science but a full-bore hoax.