“In a condemnatory speech last week against the Obama administration’s new Environmental Protection Agency carbon emission regulations, Kentucky state Sen. Brandon Smith (R) claimed that man-made climate change is scientifically implausible because Mars and Earth share “exactly” the same temperature.

Smith, the owner of a mining company called Mohawk Energy, argued that despite the fact that the red planet doesn’t have any coal mines, Mars and Earth share a temperature. Therefore, Smith reasoned, coal companies on Earth should be exempt from emission regulations.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Shadee Ashtari / Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/08/brandon-smith-mars-climate-change_n_5568058.html