Another hard-hitting commentary on the House Science Committee

There is a major outcry in the media about the House Science Committee budget - the one that eviscerates science that the GOP doesn't like.  Here's the most recent I've seen, from The New Yorker:

GOP's War on Science Gets Worse

Pithy quotes:

"Defunding NASA’s earth-science program takes willed ignorance one giant leap further. It means that not only will climate studies be ignored; some potentially useful data won’t even be collected."

and

"The vote on the NASA bill came just a week after the same House committee approved major funding cuts to the National Science Foundation’s geosciences program, as well as cuts to Department of Energy programs that support research into new energy sources. As Michael Hiltzik, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, noted, the committee is “living down to our worst expectations.”  [ The link goes to another report on how bad this budget is. ]

and

"Cutting NASA and the N.S.F.’s climate-science budgets isn’t going to alter the basic realities of climate change. No one needs an advanced degree to understand this. Indeed, the idea that ignoring a problem isn’t going to make it go away is one that kids should grasp by the time they’re six or seven. But ignoring a problem does often make it more difficult to solve."

Dumbasses, every single one of them.  And some of them are probably actually happy to be known as such, if it serves their campaign contributor masters well.