Update: PolitiFact Texas received a barrage of emails accusing the fact-checkers of being misleading in their fact check of Rep. Wayne Smith.
because there has yet to be a scientific consensus on the correlation of carbon emissions and climate change. Because the representative鈥檚 claim was not false, readers claim that labeling Smith with the 鈥淧ants on Fire鈥� ranking and urge that PolitiFact Texas鈥檚 pants are aflame.
Original Post: A state representative recently claimed that science has yet to confirm that greenhouse gasses, like carbon dioxide, have a hazardous effect on the environment.
In an Rep. Wayne Smith of Baytown said that 鈥渟cience has not shown greenhouse gases to be a problem,鈥� which and the PolitiFact Texas fact checkers. Click the player above to hear our conversation about it.
