Minnesota House says: 'What climate change?'
by: JON TEVLIN
On the front page of Tuesday’s newspaper, a headline read: “As summers get hotter, humans get more blame.” This idea is being accepted as fact by most scientists around the world, by businesses and by government agencies such as NASA and the Department of Defense.
Even the pope seems to be down with it.
But apparently climate change is still not accepted in the Minnesota House.
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Asked directly if humans cause greenhouse gasses, Gruenhagen said: “I believe there are eminently qualified scientists who would disagree with that comment and I tend to agree with those scientists.”
Rep. Jim Newberger, R-Becker, also deferred to a minuscule number of scientists who debunk climate change, saying: “I’m going to trust they are a lot smarter than I. These are men and women who accomplished many things.”
(I’ll pause here to offer expert rebuttal from Paul Bolstad, a University of Minnesota professor who helped author an important government report on climate change last year: “Almost all of the ‘eminently qualified scientists’ oft cited as denying climate change can safely be characterized as quacks or paid shills, sometimes both. They are neither eminent nor scientists.”)
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