considering that the chair of the senate environment and public works committee, oklahoma senator james inhofe, is the guy best known for doing this. >> we keep hearing that 2014 has been the warmest year on record. i asked the chair, you know what this is? it's a snowball. and that's just from outside here. [ laughter ] >> seth: though it would have been fun for inhofe to go looking for a snowball today, considering it was 68-[ bleep ] degrees in washington, d.c. [ cheers and applause ] today. for real. this is harry reid going to work. that's how he dressed. [ laughter ] that is very in step with his time. [ laughter ] nonetheless, this is obviously a huge story, and a historic diplomatic achievement. and when the french foreign minister made the deal official, he did so by banging the world's tiniest leaf gavel. [ laughter ] i get it, you guys. you're green. but the gavel doesn't have to be on message. still, no matter the gavel, applause broke out among the audience, which included world leaders, u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon, and yeah, you know al gore was there. there he is. [ appla