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 control the economy or trying to control private property. bu
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 control the economy or trying to control private property. but if you look at hair predictions in the past, the five te
but if you look at hair predictions in the past, the five ten, 15 years, most of the predictions have been wrong and anybody who s going to predict what s going to han in the year 2100 you know, 85 years from now, is not going to be correct. a lot of those predictions have in fact been right. in the previous session of congress, smith held more hearings on the search for extras terrestrial life than climate change. now he s taking a different approach using an the committee s subpoena power to harass scientists whose work he doesn t like. he subpoenaed records from the national oceanographic institute over a study that refuted claims of a pause in global warming. and now he s looking to investigate a climate research non-profit whose director signed a letter to the obama administration asking it to investigate fossil fuel companies that may have deceived