[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 30 (Wednesday, March 18, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H1243]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   TOO EARLY TO ADOPT KYOTO AGREEMENT

  (Mr. WHITFIELD asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WHITFIELD. Mr. Speaker, the Clinton administration is launching a 
major offensive for the adoption of the protocol negotiated at Kyoto 
regarding global warming. Vice President Gore has been one of the 
leading advocates of this and has declared there is no longer any 
significant disagreement in the science community that the greenhouse 
effect is real. In fact, Vice President Gore has said that 98 percent 
of the science community would concur that a greenhouse emergency has 
begun.
  However, the administration fails to tell the American people that, 
in 1992, a survey showed that of the two professional groups 
responsible for climate change in America, that only 17 percent said 
that warming trends convinced them that an artificial greenhouse was in 
effect.
  Vice President Gore frequently refers to the intergovernmental panel 
on climate change to buttress his argument that we have global warming. 
However, he fails to say that in that same report there are hundreds of 
documents that say that there is no global warming taking effect.
  It is too early for us to adopt the Kyoto Agreement.

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