Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) recently attended a climate-deniers conference, where he shared an anti-fluoride rant with the event’s attendees. Watching his comments, I thought to myself how this represented another small step backwards for Republicans and science – especially given the fact that Rohrabacher is on the House Science Committee.

But if this represented a small step backwards for the GOP and science, this is a bigger step in the wrong direction.

Republican state Sen. Brandon Smith of Kentucky has a new theory on why climate change couldn’t possibly be slowly warming the earth’s temperature, resulting in legions of effects to the environment and its inhabitants.

The reason, according to alternative paper LEO Weekly, seems to be that since Mars and Earth have identical temperatures, Earth’s climate cannot possibly be the result of human activity.