Johnson, who by the way rarely directly interacts with constituents, is willing to put partisan politics ahead of human life. He and his pals practice ideology-based pseudo-science, supported by those who make billions from carbon consumption.

As PolitiFact noted, the world’s leading science academies have long warned that the planet is warming. In August 2013 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an international panel of scientists, reiterated the role of human beings, saying in a draft report the odds are at least 95 percent that humans are the main cause of the warming in recent decades. Dozens of other commissions and panels have come to the same conclusion. But let’s not allow solid science get in the way of profit-taking and political posturing.

Hansen, who formerly was head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, appeared at the hearing to oppose the Keystone pipeline and argue for a modest carbon fee that would slowly rein in carbon consumption.