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unhappycamper

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Tue Sep 23, 2014, 07:24 AM Sep 2014

Jon Stewart: Talking to GOP about climate change is like ‘pushing a million pounds of idiot up a mou

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/jon-stewart-talking-to-gop-about-climate-change-is-like-pushing-a-million-pounds-of-idiot-up-a-mountain/



Jon Stewart: Talking to GOP about climate change is like ‘pushing a million pounds of idiot up a mountain’
Arturo Garcia
23 Sep 2014

Daily Show host Jon Stewart blasted three Republican congressmen on Monday for being climate change deniers sitting on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.

Stewart showed footage of Reps. Larry Buschon (R-IN), Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and Steve Stockman (R-TX) each thinking they could counter White House scientific advisor John Holdren’s evidence during a hearing last week, only to get shut down.

Meanwhile, Holdren, Stewart said, had the Sisyphean task of “pushing a million pounds of idiot up a mountain,” including one exchange where Holdren told Buschon to “look at the scientific literature” regarding climate change.

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Instead of reading the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Stewart said, Buschon was relying on the opinions of YouTube commenters like “Obummerlies1776? for his opinions on climate change, and scoffing at people who study the phenomenon for a living.


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