Edit: Why take legislators seriously?

In his morning editorial, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune comments:

Another national publication has taken Idaho’s Legislature seriously.

The fools.

This time, it’s the Weather Channel, which contends Idaho lawmakers stand alone among their colleagues in deep-sixing the teaching of human-caused climate change in the public schools.

Elsewhere, legislatures in six states - Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Wyoming - were less successful.

The Weather Channel adds that state boards of education in Texas and West Virginia had some success in watering down criteria for teaching climate change science, however. More here.