change in congress, chairman jim inhofe is now thinking about taking his crusade to the upcoming climate talks in paris attempting to block a binding agreement by being what he calls a one-man truth squad. while he may be the public face after republican denialism, one of his colleagues in the house is waging something like guerrilla warfare on climate science. lamar smith, republican from texas, chairs the house committee on science, space and technology. a body that david roberts argues is even worse than the select committee on benghazi. because while the benghazi committee is at the very least investigating a real security failure that led to the death of four americans, congressman smith s committee is spend ing its time hounding scientists advancing our understanding of climate change, a group he s never had much regard for. this is nothing new. they always make these kind of predictions and obviously, there are some people that want to use environmental regulations to try to