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You'd be surprised how hard it is to find out the level of education each senator, representative, etc... has under their belt. According to politico.com

There are currently 16 physicians in Congress: 14 in the House (plus two dentists) and two in the Senate. That adds up to more members with medical degrees than at any time during the decades-long modern health care debate.

So we've got Medical doctors there, but no list of names. A rather disapointing stub on Wikipedia lists a handful of politicians with doctorates. One in particular, Gerald "Jerry" McNerney, has a PhD in Mathematics who wrote a thesis titled A (1,1) tensor generalization of the Laplace-Beltrami operator. While I'm no Differential Geometert I have a feeling this was really hard. He currently serves on the subcommittees for Energy and Environment & Communications, Technology, and the Interwebz. According to this site the fact that McNerney is so involved in wind technology that his work has roughly the equivalence of 30 million barrels of oil, 8.3 million tons of cabon monoxide. For those that care that is roughly 276 666 tons of carbon monoxide per barrel. Two of his children are also scientists: Biophysics and Cognitive Neural Science.

What got me on this kick was the death of Norman Borlaug. Who turns out is probably one of the greatest unsung scientists of our time. What he did wasn't flashy, he made wheat make more of itself, but the effects include a quadrupling of India's flour production in a short period of time. His scientific achievements asside what he did that caught my eye was attempt to take an active role in the making of policy. I think that the modern scientist should take this model with the topic of global warming. Rather than pleading with our politicians to consider the situation more seriously they themselves should work with the politicians, as I'm sure some are, and write the policy that can ensure that my little kid has a place to live.