The House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology set off a firestorm after tweeting an article from Breitbart on Thursday titled “Global Temperatures Plunge. Icy Silence from Climate Alarmists.”
U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, leads the committee, which oversees NASA, the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency along with a litany of other science-related agencies.
Smith’s office declined to comment and referred a reporter to the committee, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“Global land temperatures have plummeted by one degree Celsius since the middle of this year – the biggest and steepest fall on record,” the article said. “The last three years may eventually come to be seen as the final death rattle of the global warming scare.”
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