Harrison Schmitt – geologist, former senator from New Mexico and one of the last men to walk on Moon during the Apollo 17 mission – has voiced his strong belief that global warming is not happening… or at least that it is not being caused by human activity.

And what’s more, Schmitt also states that “global warming” is being used as a political tool to increase the presence of government in people’s lives…

Schmitt contends that scientists “are being intimidated” if they disagree with the idea that burning fossil fuels has increased carbon dioxide levels, temperatures and sea levels.

“They’ve seen too many of their colleagues lose grant funding when they haven’t gone along with the so-called political consensus that we’re in a human-caused global warming,” Schmitt said.

Dan Williams, publisher with the Chicago-based Heartland Institute, which is hosting the climate change conference, said he invited Schmitt after reading

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