Republicans will no longer answer questions in the hallways.  It’s because they act like high schoolers without hall passes.

Sessions says he gets nervous answering questions quickly.  After all, he needs time to make up his lies.

As a former environmental biologist, I am appalled at the denial of man-made climate change.  Let’s take a look at the issues.  First, what is it?  The use of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the air, which trap heat within the atmosphere.  The average temperature of the earth has risen 1.4° F. over the last century and is projected to rise as much as 11.5° F. over the next.

There are a range of effects to this phenomenon.  A few of them include a global temperature rise, warming oceans, decreased snow cover, ocean acidification, rising sea levels due to the melting of glaciers, severe weather events, and droughts which can lead to wildfires.  Rising sea levels alone can have enormous effects on coastal areas, including flooding, erosion, contamination of drinking water, and loss of animal and fish habitat.

NASA says there is a 95% probability the current warming trend is due to human activity.  All evidence from ice cores, tree rings, coral reefs and sedimentary rocks show climate response to greenhouse gas is occurring ten times faster than other warming factors would produce.  Military and intelligence experts believe our withdrawal from the Paris Accord poses a threat to national security and could have a devastating impact on the availability of critical resources.  Ninety-seven percent of scientists polled by the National Academy of Science believe in man-made climate change.

Let’s play the devil’s advocate for a moment.  Let’s pretend there’s only a 1% chance that climate change and all its devastating effects is man-made (an erroneous assumption, but let’s go with it).  If there was a 1% chance that the food you give to your children and grandchildren was poisoned, would you ignore the danger?  Would you claim that the scientific evidence was fake?  Would you say, let’s gamble?  I sincerely hope not, and we shouldn’t treat climate change with the same ignorance.