Climate scientists have denounced the House committee on science, space and technology after the Republican-held panel promoted a misleading story expressing skepticism that the earth is dangerously warming. On Thursday afternoon, the committee tweeted a Breitbart article alleging, “Global Temperatures Plunge. The story linked to a British tabloid, the Daily Mail, which claimed that global land temperatures are plummeting, and that humans are not responsible for years of steadily increasing heat. “They’re not serious articles,” said Adam Sobel, a Columbia University climate scientist. “We need to bring *science* back to the Science Committee .”“Sign these guys up for the flat earth society,” wrote representative Zoe Lofgren.

Source: The Guardian December 03, 2016 14:49 UTC