GOP Rep. Wants Science Post: Past Warming "Could Have Been Dinosaur Flatulence, You Know?"

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Rohrabacher gave his roughly 25-minute pitch to the House GOP steering committee Monday and said the Science panel should be used to spur the next generation of nuclear energy and give a platform to those that question or outright reject science suggesting that humans are causing global warming.

The panel “needs to be used as a bully pulpit because many of the issues brought up by the Democrats is based on phony science,” Rohrabacher told POLITICO. This especially is true of global warming, “which is a total fraud,” he said. “We need to make sure that the Science Committee has a debate which both sides can equally present their sides.”

Rohrabacher once joked that dinosaur gas might be the cause behind global warming. "We don’t know what those other cycles were caused by in the past,” he said at a February 2007 hearing. “Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows?”

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And another skeptic may join the club. Rohrabacher suggested that Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) take the chairmanship of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee or another subpanel so “he could be the point person on the investigation of global warming.”
Sensenbrenner could use the subcommittee as a consolation prize if Republican leaders dismantle the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, where he is the ranking member.

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45776.html

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1. Why are we worried about our education system?

We won't need an education when this group gets done.

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2. Congressional flatulence

is a major contributor today's crisis.