Former Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) died Tuesday morning after a long career in government, becoming one of the most vocal critics of heavy-handed environmental regulation.

The Oklahoma Republican is perhaps best remembered for the time he brought a snowball onto the Senate floor to mock global warming.

“In case we have forgotten, because we keep hearing that 2014 has been the warmest year on record, I ask the chair, you know what this is?” Inhofe said during a floor speech in February 2015 as he produced a snowball from a bag beside his podium.

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“It’s a snowball,” he said. “From outside here. So it’s very, very cold out. Very unseasonable.”

“So here, Mr. President, catch this,” Inhofe added as he tossed the snowball.

At the time, temperatures in the nation’s capital had sunk below freezing.

Inhofe called climate change a “hoax” and frequently sounded off against the global warming narrative, arguing that human activity does not cause major temperature changes.

He chaired the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee for two years, during which time he challenged the climate change narrative in favor of what he called “sound science.”

Inhofe fiercely criticized the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), at one point comparing the agency to a “Gestapo bureaucracy.”

During a floor speech in 2003, Inhofe promised to “expose the most powerful, most highly financed lobby in Washington, the far left environmental extremists.”

“Wake up, America. With all the hysteria, all the fear, all the phony science, could it be that manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? I believe it is,” Inhofe said during his remarks, which lasted for two hours.

“And if we allow these detractors of everything that has made America great, those ranging from the liberal Hollywood elitists to those who are in it for the money, if we allow them to destroy the foundation, the greatness of the most highly industrialized nation in the history of the world, then we don’t deserve to live in this one nation under God,” he said.

Some of Inhofe’s staffers went on to serve in the EPA during the Trump administration, where they continued to work to roll back excessive environmental regulations.

Inhofe was reviled by climate change activists and others, many of whom celebrated his death on social media on Tuesday, making jokes about snowballs in hell.

“I hope he has fun finding out how fast snowballs melt in hell,” one X user wrote.

“Jim Inhofe is dead. Hope he kept that snowball for where he’s going,” posted another.

Inhofe was the longest-serving senator from Oklahoma and was in office for 29 years from 1994 until he retired last year.

Former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, who tore into then-Senator Kamala Harris during the 2019 presidential debates and essentially caused Harris to plummet in the polls, had some harsh words regarding the possibility of Harris becoming president.

Gabbard, who now serves as a contributor for Fox News, was asked by Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, “You debated Kamala. Do you think she actually thinks she is smart and effective, and if so, why?”

“Without a doubt, she believes this,” Gabbard replied. “I can’t even begin to analyze why that is the case. She has been unqualified to serve as vice-president and is not qualified or capable at all for the very real prospect that if Biden wins, she will be president of the United States. That’s a fact; regardless of who’s on the top of the ticket as the Democrats figure this thing out, whether it’s Biden-Harris or Harris-whoever, a President Kamala Harris will be our Commander-In-Chief. And I can tell you as a soldier who was deployed to multiple war zones and I can speak for a lot of my brothers and sisters in uniform, that prospect should be terrifying for all Americans.”

“She is incapable and unqualified to be our country’s commander-in-chief, which then leads to what I know to be certain: Just as Joe Biden is not calling the shots on our foreign policy, he’s got Tony Blinken and Hillary Clinton and Jake Sullivan and Lloyd Austin and all of these other people in the deep state administrative state who are not elected, who are actually making these decisions related to our foreign policy, who have pushed us to the brink of multiple wars, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and closer to the brink of nuclear war than ever before, if it is a President Kamala Harris, a Commander-in-Chief Kamala Harris, it will be the very same deep state making these decisions that have done such great harm to our own national security and to our freedom as a country,” Gabbard added.

At the July 31, 2019 debate, Gabbard fired at Harris:

Senator Harris says she’s proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she’ll be a prosecutor president. But I’m deeply concerned about this record. There are too many examples to cite but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.

She blocked evidence — she blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California. And she fought to keep  a bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.

Gabbard later added, “The bottom line is, Senator Harris, when you were in a position to make a difference and an impact in these people’s lives, you did not. And worse yet, in the case of those who were on death row, innocent people, you actually blocked evidence from being revealed that would have freed them until you were forced to do so. There is no excuse for that and the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor owe — you owe them an apology.”