I wanted to just go back to the climate change thing real quickly because Congressman Rohrabacher was pointing to a group of I guess you might call them dissenters on the view that climate change is now being driven by this sort-of a man-made phenomenon at this point.
Sarbanes addresses climate change skepticism and the need for scientific consensus.
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