[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10509]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    NEWSWEEK: ``THE COOLING WORLD''

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, I am alarmed by news in Newsweek magazine. I 
quote: ``There are ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have 
begun to change dramatically, and these changes may cause a drastic 
decline in food production.
  ``The evidence has begun to accumulate so massively that 
meteorologists are hard pressed to keep up with it. The changes in 
temperature have taken the planet a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age 
average.''
  That's right, Mr. Speaker, this article from April 1975 predicts the 
next ice age. It even suggests melting the polar cap and stockpiling 
food.
  I believed these scientists and thought we were going to all freeze 
in the dark. Now meteorologists are claiming we're all doomed because 
of global warming. These meteorologists can't even predict tomorrow's 
weather, but claim to know as fact about global warming in the future.
  The climate is changing, but is it man's fault? Is it getting too 
cold or too hot? Can we control the weather? Scientists even today 
disagree.
  Before Congress continues to practice the religion of global warming 
and passing expensive legislation that takes away our personal liberty, 
we'd better come back to Earth and deal with the truth.
  And that's just the way it is.

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