James H. Inhofe is the junior (Republican) U.S. Senator from Oklahoma as well as Big Oil's primary climate skeptic in the U.S. Senate. So beholden to the oil industry is Inhofe that actor and activist Alec Baldwin described him as an "oil whore". Inhofe's score on Politifact According to Jeff Sharlet, Inhofe is a member of an Evangelical secret society called "the Family," which encourages its adherents to accept their positions of privilege, power and wealth as the will of god.