Sanders Burns House Science for Tweeting False Breitbart Climate Piece

"On Thursday, The House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology tweeted a misleading article published by Breitbart about the state of the global climate.

'Global Temperatures Plunge. Icy Silence from Climate Alarmists,' the tweet read.

The article starts by asserting that "Global land temperatures have plummeted by one degree Celsius since the middle of this year – the biggest and steepest fall on record," citing an article from The Daily Mail that fails to place the statistic in context (more on that below). Breitbart then states, without any evidence, that "the news has been greeted with an eerie silence by the world's alarmist community," a term used by climate science doubters to describe climate scientists and the reporters who cover their work.

Senator Bernie Sanders responded to the tweet, asking, 'Where'd you get your PhD? Trump University?'"

Rafi Letzter and Dave Mosher report for Business Insider December 1, 2016.

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