Tom Williams via Getty Images Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) is the new chair of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. A congressional committee that for years served as a platform for one of Washington’s most stalwart climate change deniers to peddle his own anti-science views held a hearing Wednesday to discuss the urgent threat of climate change. The San Antonio native left behind a long history of harassing federal climate scientists, dismissing the threat of climate change and stacking hearings with industry lobbyists and like-minded skeptics. — Gavin Schmidt (@ClimateOfGavin) February 13, 2019Not a single skeptic of climate science testified ― a grand departure from Smith’s time as chair. “To stabilize the global climate, net global carbon dioxide emissions must be brought to zero,” Kopp said.

Source: Huffington Post February 13, 2019 22:32 UTC