Ill winds passed during Congressional hot-air debate

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An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, a leading academic newspaper, suggested Congress was treading on dangerous territory recently in discussing โ€œthe climatic effects of dinosaur farts,โ€ given membersโ€™ own reputations โ€œfor producing hotย air.โ€

Members quizzed four scientists who had helped oversee a report issued last week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a UN panel. It began seriously enough with an introduction by Susan Soloman, a senior scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who said global warming is unequivocal with a better than 90 per cent likelihood people are mostlyย responsible.

The discussions started to deteriorate, however, when Bert Rorabacher, a California Republican and former speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, took issue with the IPCCโ€™s finding of human blame, suggesting โ€œdinosaur flatulenceโ€ might be the culprit.

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