Blaine Buzzed: "An Embarrassment — To Himself, His Constituents and The Rest of Missouri"

The Post-Dispatch just rips Blaine Luetkemeyer to pieces this morning. 

As first reported on Fired Up!, Luetkemeyer wants to cut funding for the UN's Climate Change science panel. But Blaine's actually been embarrassing himself since the beginning of the cap-and-trade debate, and the Post-Dispatch editorial board has had enough.

Last year’s global average temperature was the 10th warmest since 1850. In fact, eight of the past 10 years, and 13 of the last 14, are among the warmest on record.

So naturally, Blaine Luetkemeyer, a Republican member of Congress from Missouri’s 9th district, has concluded: “We are undergoing a period of worldwide cooling.” [...]

The good news is that his bill [to cut climate research funding] will go nowhere; as a freshman member of the minority party, Mr. Luetkemeyer has very little influence. The bad news is his bill is an embarrassment — to himself, his constituents and the rest of Missouri.

Mr. Luetkemeyer told Post-Dispatch reporter Bill Lambrecht that “the IPCC has 50-some scientists.” Actually, the latest IPCC report was the product of “more than 500 lead authors and 2,000 expert reviewers” and summarizes the findings of thousands more researchers.

That fact can be found in the preface of the document Mr. Luetkemeyer dismisses as junk science. This proves that on little, easy-to-check facts, just as on big, complicated issues of climate science, Mr. Luetkemeyer is just Blaine wrong.

Nice work, Blaine.

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