 Family says he suffered a stroke over July 4th. He was a fixture in state politics for decades there in the House and the Senate. He had called climate change, by the way, the greatest hoax ever perpetuated on the American people. Republican state leaders in Montana will ask that state Supreme Court in Helena to overturn a climate ruling, a lawsuit brought by young environmentalists there. That decision said that federal regulators must consider global warming emissions while approving oil, gas and coal projects.