Our brilliant Congress

From Daily Kos this morning:

Here's a sample of, depending on which you believe, idiocy or connivery from the report on climate change:

• Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) stated that while he accepts that 2010 was one of the warmest years in the last decade, “I do not say that it is man-made.”

• Chairman Emeritus Joe Barton (R-TX) stated that “the science is not settled and the science is actually going the other way.”

• Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Power, called on Al Gore to “come clean about the real science surrounding climate change and let the American people come to their own conclusions on global warming.”

• Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Environment and the
Economy, rejected the dire warnings of climate scientists and said the Earth “will end only God declares it is time to be over.  Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.”

• Rep. John Sullivan (R-OK), vice-chair of the Subcommittee on Energy and Power, stated, “I  don’t think anyone could come to any conclusion whether it is real or not.  Until we can see sound science that’s truthful, I don’t think anyone can make a decision based on that.”

• Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) stated that “no one knows” whether man is responsible for climate change.  He said it is “just the height of chutzpah for us to be claiming that man-made effects can change something as profound as the climate on this planet.  The climate has changed over eons.  Man has had nothing to do with it.”

• Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told reporters that she does not believe that the science
behind climate change is “settled.”

• Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) said that the “debate on the causes of climate change are [sic] far from settled.”

• Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) stated that “anthropogenic global warming is still an issue
that the scientists are still debating.”

• Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) called it “reckless” to cut greenhouse gas emissions “in order to address a scientific theory — man-made global warming — that many scientists do not even believe is happening.

• Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO) admitted that the climate is changing but said that he does not “believe humans are causing that change to the extent that’s been in the news.”

• Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) said that the cause of climate change “could just be a shift on the axis.”

Extremism in the defense of corporate power and against the environment, people's health and the most elementary common-sense is nothing new, of course.

This is pathetic. CH must be right below, the planet was set up by an alien race to serve has their lunatic asylum.