Rep Lamar Smith is a skeptic of man-made global warming. He said, "I'm really more fearful of freezing. And I don't have any science to prove that. But we have a lot of science that tells us they're not basing it [global warming] on real scientific facts."

There is, however, an overwhelming consensus within the scientific community that the planet is warming in large part because of human activity. How can the U.S. government put a man in charge of making smart and thoughtful decisions around science that not only impacts the U.S., but also the rest of world when he doesn't believe in facts?

“There is virtually unanimous consensus among the world’s scientists (98%) who work in the area that human beings are the major reason that this is so (the world’s average temperature rising),” writes Peter Raven from London (Peter Raven, co-inventor in 1964, along with biologist Paul R. Ehrlich, of the bedrock concept of co-evolution, and one of the world’s most widely known and respected senior scientists). “Because, just as first noted by the Swedish chemist Arrhenius in 1895, when you add more carbon dioxide or other co-called greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, you make it warmer.”

In addition, we should also remove all "science deniers" from the committee:

Ralph M. Hall, Texas

F. James Sensenbrenner, Wisconsin

Dana Rohrabacher, California

Roscoe G. Bartlett, Maryland

Frank D. Lucas, Oklahoma

Judy Biggert, Illinois

W. Todd Akin, Missouri

Randy Neugebauer, Texas

Michael T. McCaul, Texas

Paul Broun, Georgia

Sandy Adams, Florida

Benjamin Quayle, Arizona

Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann, Tennessee

Scott Rigell, Virginia

Steven Palazzo, Mississippi

Mo Brooks, Alabama

Andy Harris, M.D., Maryland

Randy Hultgren, Illinois

Chip Cravaack, Minnesota

Larry Bucshon, Indiana

Dan Benishek, Michigan