[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13060]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 THE ACCELERATED PACE OF GLOBAL WARMING

  (Mr. MORAN of Virginia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, the Flat Earth Party is, once 
again, in a state of denial.
  Much of the leadership and membership of the Republican Party is 
denying even the existence of global warming as a tactic to defeat the 
desperately needed clean green jobs legislation that we are just about 
to bring to the House floor.
  Imagine. Forget the fact that more than 2,500 of the most respected 
scientists from 130 countries have concluded unequivocally that global 
warming does exist, that it is a very serious problem, and that it is 
undoubtedly a result of human activity.
  The accelerated pace of global warming threatens hundreds of millions 
of people who live near the shoreline from flooding or from drought 
depending on your location on this planet. In fact, in Juneau, Alaska, 
they're building an 18-hole golf course on land that just a few years 
ago was submerged underwater. They're losing more than 30 feet a year 
from the shoreline.
  One has to wonder how the party of ``No'' still really feels about 
the theory that the Earth may revolve around the sun.

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