[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 123 (Wednesday, September 28, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H8392]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             SIMPLE SCIENCE

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, the simple, easy answer to any problem or 
solution is almost always wrong.
  Today the simplistic, politically correct explanation for hurricanes 
Katrina and Rita is global warming. Yet simple, easy science is almost 
always wrong.
  CNN reported a couple of days ago that the biggest, worst decade for 
hurricanes was the 1940s, long before there was any thought or theory 
or even mention of global warming. In addition, Max Mayfield, director 
of the National Hurricane Center, said in news stories and television 
reports that hurricanes are cyclical in nature. He said it was wrong to 
invoke our alleged global warming without valid science or any hard 
science to back it up. Mr. Mayfield also noted the terrible hurricanes 
of the 1940s and the hurricane cycles.
  The overly simple political science of global warming is just not 
accurate here, and people should not use the tragedy of these 
hurricanes to advance or promote political theories.

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