John Abraham is a charter member of the Climate Science Rapid Response Team, with whom I have been working in recent months to help push back at the Fox News/Talk Radio meme factory.
Abraham, a Phd professor of Thermal and Fluid Mechanics at St Thomas School of Engineering in St. Paul, MN, came to prominence last year with his thorough and clinical dissection of Christopher Monckton’s litany of climate canards, lies and ignorance.
Writing with Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) in the influential Washington newsletter, The Hill, John Abraham tells it like it is.
Multiple studies have shown that 97 percent of the most qualified climate scientists are in agreement that humans are causing the planet to warm. If this was an illness, and 97 percent of doctors recommended a certain treatment, we would take appropriate action.
Instead, the majority party in the House of Representatives is choosing to willfully defy the diagnosis and overturn established science by voting on a bill (H.R. 910) that will gut the Clean Air Act and prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from ever protecting the American people from the disastrous impacts of climate change.
During the committee markup of H.R. 910, not a single Republican voted to even acknowledge the validity of EPA’s scientific finding that “warming of the climate system is unequivocal,” caused by human activities, and a threat to public health. The rejection of those amendments is shocking to scientists who understand the serious risks Americans face from global climate change.
This places the climate deniers on the same side as those fringe extremists who denied the harmful impacts of cigarette smoking and DDT, and the causes of acid rain and ozone depletion. Proponents of H.R. 910 are denying science and dangerously on the wrong side of history.
It’s worth a read. I’m told Republicans don’t like to be reminded of their status as antiscientific troglodytes.