Washington (CNN) Sen. James Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, who strongly denies that climate change exists, brought a large snowball on the Senate floor Thursday as a real life example that the globe is not warming.

"In case we have forgotten because we keep hearing that 2014 has been the warmest year on record," said Inhofe, who is the chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee while holding the lumpy snowball in his hand. "I asked the chair, do you know what this is? It's a snowball just from outside here. So it's very, very cold out. Very unseasonable."

"Catch this," he said, as he tossed the snowball underhand to an unseen person -- perhaps a page or an aide -- just a couple of feet away.

He then resumed his speech with a smile on his face that indicated he was quite pleased with his demonstration.

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