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Marc Morano, editor of ClimateDepot.com and a prominent climate change denier... criticized Watson, whom he sat next to at the witness table.
“[Watson] says it’s our last chance to save the planet. These are the words of a salesman, a science bureaucrat, not a disinterested…”
Morano never finished that sentence because subcommittee chair Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) interrupted and told Morano to direct testimony to him.
“There’s a narrative around here [in Congress] that Republicans are coming around on science and climate. Look no further than the witnesses they continue to dredge out of the fever swamp for these subcommittee hearings, and you’ll see that they’ve got a long way to evolve,”
“This is shadowy stuff, and we see it week after week: instead of scientists, people from these junior varsity think tanks that they keep dredging up. Apparently, witnesses from QAnon and Infowars”—a conspiracy theory group and website, respectively—”were unavailable, and so this is what we get.”
Morano “brought a provocative, almost like a World Wrestling type of ethos to his testimony..., and he’s a former staffer to Jim Inhofe,”
Huffman told Eos, referring to the Oklahoman senator who authored a book entitled The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future.
After the hearing, another witness said he was disappointed... Jacob Malcom, director of the Center for Conservation Innovation for Defenders of Wildlife, a Washington, D.C.–based conservation group, told Eos that the last time there was a mass extinction
“it happened because an asteroid hit the planet. Today, we are that asteroid.”
