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VATICAN ENQUIRER – In a controversial study published yesterday in the Journal of Elementary Geography, scientists report that the eastern half of the continental United States comprises less than one percent of the planet.<\/p>\n

The study, released as a cold spell grips the eastern part of that country following the earth\u2019s hottest year ever, has touched off a firestorm in segments of American society.<\/p>\n

The paper, consisting entirely of the terse text: \u201cWorld area 510,072,000 square km. Continental US 8,080,464 square km. (8,080,464\/2)\/510,072,000 = .008\u201d, particularly rankled conservative members of the U.S. Congress, who saw it as both a slight to the country\u2019s importance and a \u201chit piece\u201d aimed at deniers of manmade global warming who point to the weather.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s pretty clear what the report\u2019s intent is\u201d, said Republican Senator James Inhofe, a prominent climate change skeptic who recently voted not to accept the established science.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs more and more Americans walk out into bitter cold weather here, these \u2018warming\u2019 eggheads are running scared.\u00a0 And so we get this claptrap about eastern US being 0.8 percent of the planet.\u201d\u00a0 Inhofe, who has written a book claiming that thousands of studies on the subject are part of a great \u201choax\u201d, clarified that he did not believe the finding.<\/p>\n

(Via Thelapine.ca)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re having our people look into it.\u00a0 We\u2019ll check their math. I think we have someone on our staff who engages in that sort of thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, whose state just moved the start of its iconic Iditarod race 300 miles north for lack of snow in Anchorage, weighed in on Fox last night.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just another example of the lamestream media, in this exceptional country, slamming good men and women, commonsense people, Saul Alinsky tactics and Obama, he doesn\u2019t even care that ISIS is at war with us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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