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Introducing Mars Climate Denialism

by David Kurtz
07.09.14 | 12:29 pm

No, the temperature on Mars is not “exactly as it is here” on Earth:


Credit: NASA

Caitlin MacNeal has more on the Kentucky GOP lawmaker who tried to bootstrap his ignorance on Mars’ climate into an argument about climate change on earth — and coal mining, or something.

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