[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 65 (Wednesday, April 27, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H2007]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
ADMINISTRATION USES CLIMATE SCARE TACTICS
(Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the Obama administration recently
released a report that tried to tie extreme weather events to climate
change. This is the administration's latest effort to scare the public
into supporting its radical climate agenda. The report ignores science
in order to justify the administration's dire predictions.
For example, the administration's report says that hurricanes are
projected to increase. But hurricanes have not increased in intensity,
frequency, or damage since 1900. The same can be said for almost all
other extreme weather events.
The administration continues to incite fear so that Americans will
wrongly believe that extreme climate events are due to climate change,
but the administration should not push costly climate regulations on
Americans when there is no good reason for them to do so.
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