Science a ‘weapon,’ Kansas Sen. Mike Thompson says. Climate change experts fact-check him.

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Do humans and carbon dioxide have no effect on climate change? Is science being weaponized, and are scientists comparable to Nazi propagandists?

That’s what one politician told the Kansas Independent Oil & Gas Association during its annual convention in Wichita last week.Sen. Mike Thompson, a Republican from Shawnee, is the chair of the Senate utilities committee. He is also a retired meteorologist.

The convention was held one week after theUnited NationsIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment reportwas released. International officials referred to its findings as a “code red for humanity.”

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Following are eight claims Thompson made during a seminar on “The Weaponization of Climate Science”— and what the climate experts at the University of Kansas contacted by The Topeka…

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