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    Michael Hiltzik: Good riddance to Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, the most noxious climate change denier in Congress

    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Nov 06, 2017 3 minutes

    To our knowledge, Rep. Lamar Smith never brought a snowball onto the House floor like Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., to "prove" that climate change was a hoax.

    But once you've said that, you've said everything. In all other particulars, Smith has been the preeminent climate change denier in Congress. That's a problem, because he also has been serving as chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, the last place where someone devoted to undermining scientific research belongs. From that perch, he's harassed government officials, Earth

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