[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 59 (Tuesday, May 12, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H3031]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             GLOBAL WARMING

  (Mr. PETERSON of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PETERSON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, a petition has been signed 
and released by over 17,000 scientists urging the Congress and other 
lawmakers around the world to reject the Kyoto Protocols on global 
climate change. The 17,000 signers include over 2,000 physicists, 
geophysicists, climatologists, meteorologists, oceanographers, and 
environmental scientists.
  In addition, 4,400 are qualified to assess the effects of carbon 
dioxide upon the Earth's plant and animal life, and most of the 
remaining signers have technical training suitable to understanding 
climate change issues.
  The petition letter is a strongly worded statement that goes beyond 
rejecting the Kyoto Protocol. It denies the existence of any scientific 
evidence that man-made greenhouse gases will cause catastrophic 
warming, and even goes so far as to say ``increases in atmospheric 
carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant 
and animal environments of the Earth.'' That is because carbon dioxide 
is not a pollutant. It is a life essential gas.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time for this administration and its extremists to 
stop the deception of the American people on global climate change.

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