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Global Temperatures Plunge. Icy Silence from Climate Alarmists
Land temperatures have plummeted by 1 degree - the biggest and steepest fall on record. But the news has been greeted with an eerie silence.
breitbart.com
The committee's chairman, Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, has spent much of the past two years defending one of his donors — oil giant ExxonMobil Corp — from allegations that it misled investors about the risks that global warming poses to its business.
Smith and other Republican members of the committee have turned what used to be a quiet committee assignment dealing with weighty and geeky subjects, like NASA's space exploration plans, into another investigative panel within Congress, which is unprecedented in the panel's history.
In a statement on Nov. 4, Smith reacted to the enactment of the Paris Climate Agreement by referring to climate change as “ science fiction .”
In 2015, Smith issued a wide-ranging subpoena to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), asking for all correspondence regarding particular climate research the agency produced. The Committee spent more than a year locked in a battle with NOAA's administrator, Kathryn Sullivan, a former NASA astronaut, over this subpoena.
Smith has received a total of about $700,000 in campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry since 2008, of which at least $19,500 came from Exxon.
The Twitter account that came to people's attention on Thursday often reads more like that of a think tank or activist organization, spreading often misleading information about climate trends. The Breitbart link is particularly interesting, considering that the former leader of that media company, Steve Bannon, is now President-elect Donald J. Trump chief strategist.
Given Trump's harsh view of mainstream climate science findings, it's possible that Rep. Smith will be even more influential in the next few years.
In other words, look for more tweets like this one, and more subpoenas.
Sanders reply is good.
I don't think House or Senate committees should be tweeting at all.
Agreed, let alone waging twitter battles about science. Ridiculous.