Bernie Sanders slams House Republicans for tweeting Breitbart article denying climate change...
Bernie Sanders slams House Republicans for tweeting Breitbart article denying climate change from official government account
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders mocked the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space & Technology for tweeting a Breitbart article suggesting that global temperatures were in a “plunge” — despite scientific consensus saying the opposite.
On Thursday, the official Twitter account of the Republican-led committee sent out a link to the right-wing media outlet in a tweet that read, “Global temperatures plungy. Icy silence from climate alarmists.”
The committee is chaired by Texas Republican Lamar Smith, a climate science doubter who reacted to the enactment of the Paris Climate Agreement by referring to climate change as “science fiction,” although it is unclear who sent the tweet.
“We’ve been getting a lot of calls about this today,” said Beth Larson, a policy assistant at the House Science Committee when reached for told Business Insider. “We’re feeling pretty overwhelmed.”
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In reality, 2016 is already locked into being the hottest year on record, and October 2016 was among the three warmest Octobers on record. Meanwhile, the Arctic has lost a record-breaking amount of sea ice this year. Furthermore, 2017 has long been expected to be somewhat cooler than 2016 as a result of the La Niña weather pattern.
But Republicans on the House Committee on Science, led by a man who has received a total of about $700,000 in campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry since 2008, including $19,500 from Exxon, publicly shared misinformation denying scientific consensus from a Breitbart writer whose other recent headlines include: “Trump at NASA: Hasta la vista climate fraud and Muslim outreach…” and “Trump’s war on the green blob will make (almost) all of us richer, happier and freer.”
The committee’s 38 members are in charge of all energy, environmental, marine, civil aviation and astronautics research and development. This includes oversight of NASA, the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, the FAA, the National Science Foundation and FEMA.
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/02/bernie-sanders-slams-house-republicans-for-tweeting-breitbart-article-denying-climate-change-from-official-government-account/
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(I posted about this yesterday, but it sunk like a stone
Meh, most everything I post sinks like a stone. Lol! 
It is nice to see some of our elected officials fighting back. 
