[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 189 (Monday, December 14, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H14846]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             GLOBAL WARMING

  (Mr. QUIGLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. QUIGLEY. Madam Speaker, coal miners used to keep a canary with 
them to let them know when the air was getting dangerous. Today, we 
have much more sophisticated measurements, but the concept is still the 
same: The canary is dying.
  Over 200 peer-reviewed studies have concluded that global warming is 
real and potentially catastrophic. No scientific peer-reviewed studies 
have found the opposite. None. But some of my colleagues have seized on 
a few illegally hacked e-mails to convince themselves that the little 
bird is fine. Well, that must be comforting, except it ignores the 
nasty case of asthma from increased emissions and the tiny bits of soot 
that thicken the canary's blood and boost harmful inflammation.
  Watching my colleagues hold the canary like Monty Python's dead 
parrot would be funny if it were just an imaginary bird, but it's not a 
canary we're killing with increased emissions. It's our children.
  And that's the way it will always be.

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