Why Hasn't Luetkemeyer Defunded NASA Already?

Grist: "It was the hottest April on record in the NASA dataset. More significantly, following fast on the heels of the hottest March and hottest Jan-Feb-March on record, it's also the hottest Jan-Feb-March-April on record...Most significantly, NASA's March prediction has come true: "It is nearly certain that a new record 12-month global temperature will be set in 2010.'"

Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer infamously tried to cut funding last year for the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) because he thought those hippie scientists were "incompetent" and "engaged in dubious scientific quests."  In February, Luetkemeyer declared that global warming and climate change is "a hoax. It's nonsense. It's a bunch of green folks who think they know how to live better than you do."

Sadly, Luetkemeyer isn't the only Missouri politician with his head in the sand:

• Roy Blunt says "There isn’t any real science to say we are altering the climate path of the earth."
• Peter Kinder says climate change is a "massive fraud."
• Kit Bond says there isn't a global warming crisis.
• Todd Akin doesn't believe in global warming, and even if it's real, he's excited about the idea of oceans rising so high he surf in Washington, DC.
• Birther Reps. Tim Jones and Casey Guernsey teamed up to attack a local scientist for wanting to discuss what Jones called "the voodoo science you and your ilk have attempted to hoist upon the international community."
• Fourth Congressional District candidate Vicky Hartlzer calls global warming "a hoax."
• More than fifty House Republicans co-sponsored a resolution in January declaring that the IPCC was engaged in "fraud," and referred to "climate change" only in scare quotes.