Snowball disproves climate change, senator suggests

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It's tempting to say the climate change "debate" reached its silliest possible point today.
Sen. James Inhofe, the chair of the Senate Environment Committee, tossed a snowball during a floor session today to emphasize that it snowed in Washington and, therefore, the planet can't be warming.
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