The House's science committee was supposed to spend Wednesday learning how technology can address climate change.
But climate change expert Philip Duffy's testimony to the committee was more of a two-hour battle between Republicans and the facts of global warming. Here are three questionable moments from the hearing, per Science magazine, and you can mine the full hearing for more gems here. Kathryn Krawczyk
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