Don’t miss this tidbit from Former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona’s Tuesday testimony before Congress:

He described attending a meeting of top officials in which the subject of global warming was discussed. The officials concluded that global warming was a liberal cause and dismissed it, he said.

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“And I said to myself, ‘I realize why I’ve been invited. They want me to discuss the science because they obviously don’t understand the science,'” he said. “I was never invited back.”

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