Just a quick post picked up via Scientific American. When Climate Change Denier Senator James Inhofe (R Oklahoma) showed up with a snow ball on the Senate Floor to 'prove' Climate Change is a hoax, he may have gotten some headlines (and more idiocy) but he did not go unanswered. Steve Mirsky at Scientific American picked up on a response from Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D Rhode Island), who has been fighting the good fight for some time.
Here's the video of Whitehouse addressing Inhofe's remarks: http://youtu.be/...
Mirsky has a partial transcript of Whitehouse's remarks from the video above.
...“You can believe NASA and you can believe what their satellites measure on the planet, or you can believe the Senator with the snowball. The United States Navy takes this very seriously, to the point where Admiral Locklear, who is the head of the Pacific Command, has said that climate change is the biggest threat that we face in the Pacific…you can either believe the United States Navy or you can believe the Senator with the snowball…every major American scientific society has put itself on record, many of them a decade ago, that climate change is deadly real. They measure it, they see it, they know why it happens. The predictions correlate with what we see as they increasingly come true. And the fundamental principles, that it is derived from carbon pollution, which comes from burning fossil fuels, are beyond legitimate dispute…so you can believe every single major American scientific society, or you can believe the Senator with the snowball.”
emphasis added
Inhofe's stunt got a fair amount of press. Granted, some of it might have been ridicule, but did you see or hear anything about the rebuttal from Whitehouse? Funny how that works.