Good riddance to Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, the most obnoxious climate change denier in Congress
To our knowledge, Rep. Lamar Smith never brought a snowball onto the House floor like Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., to “prove” that climate change was a hoax.
But once you’ve said that, you’ve said everything. In all other particulars, Smith has been the preeminent climate change denier in Congress. That’s a problem, because he also has been serving as chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, the last place where someone devoted to undermining scientific research belongs. From that perch, he’s harassed government officials, Earth scientists and other academics whose work refutes his position that the human role in climate change is a myth.
On Thursday, Smith announced that he will be retiring when the congressional term, his 16th, ends in 2018. He didn’t give much detail on his reasons, although he noted that he’ll be term-limited out of his chairman’s post then.
Good riddance. May we never see his like again.
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-lamar-smith-20171103-story.html
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