Mr. SAMUELSOHN: It was funny. Inhofe really took a backseat on this debate and past climate-change debates. He’s been front and center on the floor, talking about the science, questioning the science, and his aides, you know, predicted a couple weeks beforehand that he wasn’t going to be doing that anymore, and they kind of – they used a couple of other Republicans, as sort of the people in the front who were leading the opposition on gas prices primarily.

Inhofe was at a couple of the press conferences, and you know certainly, he is well. Actually, he really didn’t go after the science so much. I mean partly, that could be, you know, their presidential candidate John McCain is in a completely different position than Jim Inhofe on the science and climate change. So…

Mr. ROY: Actually, there was a funny moment when Bernie Sanders of Vermont started talking a lot about the science, and then Inhofe said, oh, it’s so tempting. I want to talk about the science, but he disciplined himself…

FLATOW: Hey, he did give some figure about thousands of scientists who were in a – you know, didn’t believe in it, at one point of the debate, if I remember correctly, but stretching back…

Mr. ROY: Right.

FLATOW: But he’s still trying to make the public believe that, But that is a sea change, is it not? That he had probably the lone voice there.

Mr. SAMUELSOHN: Absolutely, he had some proponents of, you know, actions pointing that out quite clearly that, you know, we’re no longer debating if we need to do anything. It’s now we’re debating how, and you know we didn’t really get into a complete debate about how, but that debate did start.