One member of President Obama’s team of crack super-scientists sent down to figure out the oil spill situation is no longer part of the club. It turns out that Jonathan I. Katz, a professor of astrophysics at Wash. U. is an avowed homophobe (literally) and also it seems not a climate denialist but in some sense a climate change celebrator. So he’s been kicked off the team.
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