In a test of environmental understanding, a third of Americans surveyed understood the effects of a thinning of the ozone layer, fourteen percent could identify locations of ozone holes and only five percent could give a scientific explanation of acid rain. Here is the NSF quiz. Click on this hyperlink for the answers, along with the percentages of correct answers in the survey. The center of the Earth is very hot. The oxygen we breathe comes from plants.
Electrons are smaller than atoms.
The continents on which we live have been moving their location for millions of years and will continue to move in the future. Human beings as we know them today developed from earlier species of animals. The earliest human beings lived at the same time as the dinosaurs. The committee also passed legislation to restrict the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency's climate mission to the investigation of natural phenomena as opposed to any human-influenced phenomena and to eliminate NASA's environmental mission altogether. All of these actions occurred prior to the subcommittee's series of hearings and without any actual public testimony.