[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 22]
[House]
[Page 29907]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          CLIMATEGATE SCANDAL

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Markey of Colorado). Under a previous 
order of the House, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Poe) is recognized 
for 5 minutes.
  Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, it seems the science behind man-made 
global warming is melting before our eyes. Now there is a chance that 
even NASA will be pulled into the worldwide Climategate scandal.

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  For nearly 3 years, NASA has been stonewalling requests under the 
Freedom of Information Act for information surrounding their own 
temperature manipulations. Earlier, we learned that the University of 
Anglia in England where those global warming scientists house 
themselves had been hiding emails that contradict their theory of 
global warming.
  So now Climategate has a twin sister, NASAgate. Investors' Business 
Daily reported just yesterday on NASA being forced to change their 
climate records that the world has been using for years. They said, 
``NASA was caught with its thermometers down when James Hansen, head of 
NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, announced that 1998 was the 
country's hottest year on record, with 2006 the third hottest.''
  The last speaker, with all due respect, used these false statistics 
in his speech claiming global warming is a crisis. The fact is: ``NASA 
and Goddard were forced to correct the record in 2007 to show that 
1934, decades before the old SUV, was in fact the warmest. In fact, the 
new numbers show that four of the country's 10 warmest years were in 
the 1930s.''
  So how did NASA, the premier scientific agency of the United States, 
get such basic temperature calculations wrong? Did they cook the books 
too, just like the University of Anglia? We don't know. It turns out 
NASA has been blocking the Freedom of Information requests about that 
incident just like the scientists in Britain. What are they trying to 
hide? If global warming is a well-settled fact, why are these experts 
hiding the evidence to the contrary? And why isn't NASA following the 
Freedom of Information law? It's been 3 years since that information 
was requested. The public has a right to see the temperature data in 
these NASA emails. But there's more.
  Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency was caught 
suppressing dissenting views, just like the Climategate warmers in 
Britain and NASA. One of the EPA's own scientists wrote a report 
refuting manmade global warming science, using the latest, most current 
information that says the Earth is actually cooling right now. In fact, 
the Earth has been cooling for more than a decade. That's really an 
inconvenient truth for Al Gore and the global warmers.
  But the people at the EPA buried the dissenting report, just like the 
Climategate warmers did and maybe NASA. The EPA bureaucrats said their 
scientist's own report wasn't helping their agenda, so they hid it and 
threatened the scientist so he would keep his mouth shut. The question 
is: Why can't the public see the dissenting view from other scientists? 
Isn't that what science is all about? The reason: It appears to me that 
careers are at stake, along with millions upon billions of dollars.
  In the 1970s, Time and Newsweek predicted global cooling, that the 
world was all going to freeze. But when climates began to warm, 
scientists changed that name to global warming instead of global 
cooling. And have we noticed that the planet has actually began to cool 
again? Madam Speaker, it even snowed last week in Houston. It never 
snows in Houston. A snow in Houston is about as frequent as a hurricane 
in Iowa.
  But the warmers, again, have changed the name of that catastrophe. 
It's now no longer global warming; it is climate change. That's a safe 
bet, because the climate does change almost every day. And why would 
they do this? What's the motivation for these scientists to apparently 
cook the books on global cooling or warming or climate change? It's 
money.
  According to the leaked Climategate documents, the British 
university, the CRU at the center of the Climategate scandal, has 
received millions of dollars. NASA's climate change warmers stand to 
receive a billion dollars in funding this year alone. Global warming is 
big business. Fox News reported today that former Vice President Al 
Gore may be the world's first carbon billionaire. He makes money 
preaching fear in the name of global warming.
  It's a great thing to make money in America. That's what capitalism 
is all about. But it's not okay to earn money from investing in green 
technology companies and, at the same time, forcing expensive green 
laws and EPA regulations on the American people based upon science that 
is not a fact. In the real world of science, if your calculations are 
wrong by data and observation, you have to throw out the hypothesis.
  Some of the computer models using CRU data as a result are falsified. 
That includes the global warming claims. And these are the top warmer 
scientists. These scientists and their dogma of fear is about control 
and obtaining taxpayer money. Ronald Reagan said it best: Government 
does not solve problems; it just continues to subsidize them.
  And that's just the way it is.

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