[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 21]
[House]
[Page 29024]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              CLIMATEGATE

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Garamendi). Under a previous order of 
the House, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Poe) is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, over the past several weeks, evidence 
has come to light of fraud and corruption in the global warming 
scientific community. Or, as it is now called, the climate change 
community.
  These shady scientists have made claims of a global warming 
apocalypse and created fear in the world that we are all doomed because 
man is the enemy destroyer of planet Earth.
  But now thousands of their emails were recently leaked to the public. 
These emails, written by scientists at the British University of East 
Anglia exposed fraud and corruption in their global warming claims. Now 
Climategate is being exposed. These snake oil salesmen have been caught 
in their lies to the world. These are the very scientists who formed 
the foundation for world global warming claims. American politicians, 
the United Nations, everyone claiming that the world is headed toward 
this global warming catastrophe based their views on this information.
  In these emails, these scientists conspired to destroy their own 
email discussion of data that contradicts their global warming claims. 
They discussed discrediting members of the scientific community who 
disagree with them. They even wish some of these dissenting scientists 
were beaten. Now isn't that lovely when you have an opposition.
  Phil Jones, the director of the climate research unit at the 
University of East Anglia in England wrote in his now-leaked emails of 
thwarting access to the data by those who doubt global warming. He 
talked about getting around British Freedom of Information requests. He 
didn't want other scientists to get his data because they could expose 
flaws and faults in his global warming claims.
  But the bread and butter of these global warming claims comes from 
what these scientists say is ``consensus'' within the scientific 
community. Now we learn there is not a consensus about global climate 
change. The emails show numerous actions taken to silence the 
dissenting voices and withhold the actual information being used to 
make their questionable claims.
  The British university says they are going to release all of their 
data now, but the scientists have already admitted that they destroyed 
much of that data. Obviously, they destroyed the data that shows their 
theory on climate change is a ruse. It is a fraud on the world. That 
doesn't look like sound science to me. It sounds like they have cooked 
the books. It sounds like they have picked out an outcome and are 
trying to fix the data to make it say what they want it to say. It 
sounds like a political agenda.
  World economies depend on these claims that have clearly been 
manipulated. The U.N. global warming summit in Copenhagen that starts 
next Monday, December 7, is using this tainted information. The United 
Nations wants to exert more control over world energy and emissions, 
and the sovereignty of nations using information that is apparently now 
faulty. It is tainted with scandal, and it is deceitful.
  How can the American people trust any of these claims when they have 
clearly been manipulated? Well, the American public can be fooled no 
longer by these pseudo scientists. One may ask why would these 
scientists skew the facts? Well, it is obvious. Governments all over 
the world give climate change individuals in the climate change crowd 
millions of dollars of money to study climate change. And if manmade 
climate change is a falsehood, these scientists may fear that their 
money will dry up.
  The jury is still out on the global warming theory and the climate 
change myth. Before Congress passes any legislation based on this 
theory regarding manmade climate change, we ought to have an open, 
honest debate from real scientists who didn't manipulate the evidence 
to get an outcome-based conclusion. Further, the EPA should halt all 
carbon emission regulations of the energy community until we learn the 
facts about climate change. Honesty is a prerequisite for conclusions 
about climate change legislation. And now we learn that climate change 
is not a well settled scientific fact at all, whether the mad 
scientists at the University of Anglia like that fact or not.
  And that's just the way it is.

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