The Scope of the Argument

This is rather humorous--at least to my slightly-off, more cerebral sense of humor--coming to us as it did the same day as Bab's long-awaited much-celebrated first hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee. That saw an unprecedented format that eschewed witnesses in favor of--wait for it--the "feelings" and opinions of committee members on the subject of Global Warming.

Anyway, from Malchow's 'synopsis':

— Listen, we’ve got global warming.
— Mmm.
— So will you sign on to this protocol?
— Nah. Gutting American industry doesn’t seem like a good idea to us.
— But the world is going to end in ten years.
— So how will not opening a few new car factories help? Especially if this protocol encourages our chief competitors to open their own new factories while we’re hamstrung here?
— Because it will. Sign here, please.
— I don’t think that’s good policy.
— Listen. Why do you hate science?
— I don’t hate s—
— You’re a crazy Christian, aren’t you?

How much primary research did he do on this, I wonder?