If Republicans don't want global warming to be fact, they ought to work on a solution

GOP Rep. Intimidates Scientists

Every once in a while, you'll see a Republican doing something so over the top that even their fellow Republicans have to jump in to try and stop them.

That's exactly what happened when Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), powerful chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee decided to investigate two scientists for coming to conclusions on global warming that didn't match his ideology <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/17/AR2005071701056.html>.

Barton's actions were so ridiculous that fellow Republican Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), chairman of the Science Committee, called on Barton to end his partisan witch hunt.

In a sharply worded letter sent last week, Boehlert called Barton's probe into the findings of Michael E. Mann, Raymond S. Bradley and Malcolm K. Hughes a "misguided and illegitimate investigation."

Boehlert joins Democrats in declaring that it's despicable for Congressmen to intimidate scientists when their results aren't what you and top contributors <http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?CID=N00005656&cycle=2004> would like to see.

But facts are facts, and if Boehlert doesn't want global warming to be fact, he ought to use his power to work on a solution instead of denying the problem.

 

Damn bastard. just like every conservative republican congressmen to come out of texas. i find it interesting that almost every scientist not under the payroll of bush and company are coming to this conclusion of fossil fuels and global warming. yet almost every person in bush's enviroment department was once an oil lobbyist. i am having a tough time which side to pick.

 

I still don't buy anything about "global warming." I think it's an unprovable theory considering the fact that climate changes happen all the time -- look at Greenland. It didn't used to have an icecap, and its climate change happened in complete absense of industry.