"Some of America’s leading scientists
have accused Republican politicians of intimidating climate-change experts by
placing them under unprecedented scrutiny," Paul Brown reports today in the Guardian.
I for one do not believe it. Right wing christian demagogues at war with scientists? Why? Who benefits?
Oh. Wait. Joe Barton, chairman of the House of Representatives committee on energy and commerce, is leading the charge. "Mr. Barton, a Texan closely associated with the fossil-fuel lobby, has spent
his 11 years as chairman opposing every piece of legislation designed to combat
climate change," Brown says.
So maybe there is a smattering of substance here, but — heck, a little intimidation is just politics, right?
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