Just a Coincidence

Yesterday, Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer embarrassed himself by demanding the end of US funding for a United Nations panel of climate change scientists because he didn't like their work. The Nobel Prize-winning group of scientists from around the globe is very highly regarded, has its work reviewed by fellow scientists and is generally considered the go-to resource for climate change analysis. Sure, there are a few scientists that disagree with some of their findings, or the degree to which the UN panel predicts changes, but those doubters are in the extreme minority.

Coincidentally, Gallup released a new poll today showing that only 6% of scientists identify themselves as scientists.

No way this partisan breakdown is related to anti-intellectual silliness like we're seeing from folks like Blaine Luetkemeyer.  

I suppose it's possible that the overwhelming majority of scientists are not as smart as Blaine and his friends who have huge financial interests in continuing their pollution without restriction.  But that doesn't seem very likely, does it? 

Maybe Blaine could clear this all up by sharing some evidence -- any evidence -- that he ever took a course in science? Or read an actual peer-reviewed journal article about climate change?  Neither seems very likely, do they?