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Ralph Hall: Congress should acknowledge that we are not experts and that allowing partisan politics to dictate the scientific…

On the recordMarch 30, 2011
Congress should acknowledge that we are not experts and that allowing partisan politics to dictate the scientific understanding of climate change is cynical, short-sighted, and by definition, ignorant.
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Ralph Hall
Texas

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Hall warns against letting politics influence scientific understanding of climate change.

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