In a new report, first shared with The Hill, analyzing public statements made by lawmakers, the think tank determined these climate deniers are all Republicans and include prominent members of House leadership.

It defined climate deniers as lawmakers who say any of the following: climate change is not real, it is not primarily caused by humans, the science is not settled on climate change, extreme weather is not caused by climate change, or climate change is actually beneficial. //

Fourth: "The science is not settled on climate change." This, again, isn't an unreasonable attitude because the science is not settled on climate change, and the science never will be settled on climate change, because that's not how the scientific method works. Science is not a philosophy, it is a tool, a method used to look at data and derive conclusions from it, to test hypotheses and develop theories that explain the data — the observations. Scientific theories are tentative, and are always open to being revised in light of new data; science is never "settled." That's not how this works; that's not how any of this works. //

While it's not necessarily an indicator of climate change or the lack thereof, it's important to note that human deaths due to severe weather have dropped by almost 99 percent in the last 100 years. //

The Center for American Progress, it must be noted, is not a scientific organization; it is a far-left activist group. This "analysis" is not an analysis at all; it is an attempt at a "gotcha," working backward from a conclusion, to try to make the point that anthropogenic climate change is something worth wrecking our economy and our modern technological lifestyle over. It also seeks to cast Republicans as the villains in the story. This isn't an analysis. It's not science, and it's not even remotely close to the scientific method; it is ideology couched in vaguely science-ish terms to make it sound plausible to the credulous.