[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12399]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       IS IT TOO COLD OR TOO HOT?

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Madam Speaker, there is alarming news from Newsweek 
magazine. I read the article in part: ``There are ominous signs the 
Earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that 
these changes may cause a drastic decline in food production. The 
evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so 
fast that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it . . . The 
central fact is that after three quarters of a century of 
extraordinarily mild conditions, the Earth's climate seems to be 
cooling down . . . If the climate change is as profound as some of the 
pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic . . . The 
present decline has taken our planet about a sixth of the way toward 
the Ice Age average.''
  Madam Speaker, this article was written in Newsweek in April 1975. 
Those doomsayers said we were all going to freeze in the dark. Now 
these are the same people who say we're going to roast because of 
global warming. Were they correct in 1975 or are they correct today? 
Before we panic, we need to separate science from junk science and get 
the facts about global warming.
  And that's just the way it is.

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