Milbank should add Rep Joe Barton to his “Flat Earther” list.

Barton, I think, had the funniest (or maybe saddest) anti-AGW congressional moment when he question Energy Secretary Steven Chu, tweeted about the exchange,

Participating n climate change hearing. I asked energy secretary where oil in alaska came from. answer puzzles-from continental plate shift

put up Youtube video of it titled, “Energy Secretary puzzled by simple question”,

Youtube Video then tweeted a second time to promote the above video:

I seemed to have baffled the Energy Sec with basic question - Where does oil come from? Check out the video

The Guardian had decent write up of the indecent here:
Climate sceptic ‘baffles’ US energy secretary Steven Chu

The article also included a couple more congressional Joe Barton climate quotes:

I believe that Earth’s climate is changing, but I think it’s changing for natural variation reasons. And I think mankind has been adopting, or adapting, to climate as long as man has walked the Earth. When it rains we find shelter. When it’s hot, we get shade. When it’s cold, we find a warm place to stay. Adaptation is the practical, affordable, utterly natural reflex response to nature when the planet is heating or cooling, as it always is.

and:

Wind is God’s way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it’s hotter to areas where it’s cooler. That’s what wind is. Wouldn’t it be ironic if in the interest of global warming we mandated massive switches to energy, which is a finite resource, which slows the winds down, which causes the temperature to go up? Now, I’m not saying that’s going to happen, Mr Chairman, but that is definitely something on the massive scale. I mean, it does make some sense. You stop something, you can’t transfer that heat, and the heat goes up. It’s just something to think about.