One of the new ploys of the Religious Right will be for the Greedy Old Party in the House to investigate global warming scientists in an effort to prove that global warming is fraudulent.
Issa (R) will head the investigation.

There are two basic reasons for this obstruction and waste in the congress.

1. The global warming deniers receive money from the energy corporations that
they are attempting to defend by persecuting scientists (ala Joe McCarthy)

2. There is a religious bias at the base of this since some of the deniers have claimed
that their god would not let global warming happen therefore the scientists must be in error.
It's a variation of the infamous Scopes Trial in which science is once more being denigrated in favor of religious belief.