Seriously, it's hard to believe some of this

The following article is so close to parody that you could think it came from The Onion.  But no, it's real.  A Tea Party congressmen from the great and misled state of Oklahoma wants President Obama to apologize.

For what, you ask?   If you haven't heard this story already, he wants Obama to apologize for...

... investing in climate change research.

There are probably easily more than 100 different ways why climate change research, which is indeed a broad umbrella, benefits society.  For example, more efficient scrubbers on fossil fuel energy plants reduce sulfur and nitrate emissions -- good for public health.  Improved vehicular gas mileage (one reason for doing that is climate change) does one thing of importance -- it saves people money.  Climate change research also helps figure out (better) how hurricanes form, which might protect our coasts in case one of them forms and heads for the U.S.  Of course, as a good Tea Party member from Oklahoma, he'd probably want to take money out of school lunch programs to pay for disaster relief in case that happens.

But as I said, seriously, he wants Obama to apologize for investing in climate change research.

Here's what he said:

“Even climate change alarmists admit the number of hurricanes hitting the U.S. and the number of tornado touchdowns have been on a slow decline for over 100 years,” Bridenstine said on the House floor Tuesday, according to Raw Story. “But here is what we absolutely know. We know that Oklahoma will have tornadoes when the cold jet stream meets the warm Gulf air, and we also know that this President spends 30 times as much money on global warming research as he does on weather forecasting and warning. For this gross misallocation, the people of Oklahoma are ready to accept the President’s apology and I intend to submit legislation to fix this.”

 I'd like to remind him of something.

Oklahoma July 2011 average temperature highest for any state, for any month, EVER

Yeah, like a Congressman from Oklahoma should be for de-investing in climate change.  That is a level of idiocy that I did not actually think achievable.