It probably has too many big words

Blaine Luetkemeyer has been absorbing some well-deserved criticism the past couple of weeks for his efforts to shut down a Nobel Prize-winning climate change research panel at the UN, which he says is "fraught with waste and is engaged in dubious science."  Their science is so dubious, in fact, that Luetkemeyer can't even stoop to reading its research before dismissing it as "junk."

In a bill that thus far has drawn no co-sponsors, Luetkemeyer proposes cutting off contributions from the United States to the U.N.-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. That panel, which includes hundreds of scientists from around the world, wrote a series of reports two years ago predicting catastrophic effects from rising temperatures.

Luetkemeyer acknowledged this week that he had not read the reports but said he believes other researchers who contend that the planet actually is cooling.

Admittedly, there's little reason to think Luetkemeyer has read anything saying the planet is "cooling" either. If he had read the Senate GOP report he cited last week to support his claims, he might have noticed that one of the "700 scientists" is actually a TV weatherman without a college degree.

But who has time for that?

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