[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 302-303]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                         CLIMATE CHANGE DENIERS

  (Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I urge my Republican colleagues 
to recognize the devastating consequences of air pollution, which is 
causing, or at least contributing to greatly, the drastic changes in 
the Earth's climate.
  Last year we experienced severe record-setting weather across the 
country, yet Republicans and climate deniers argue that no single 
weather event can be proven to have been caused by climate change. 
Paradoxically, climate deniers are now using the extreme cold snap as 
evidence to support their cause, which is to do away with all laws and 
regulations that protect our precious air quality.
  The maddening denial of the link between air quality and climate 
change is reckless, and it is a denial of scientific fact. Our 
posterity deserves more. We know, and 95 percent of scientists agree, 
that climate change leads to more severe weather overall, and the 
evidence is overwhelming.
  Now is the time for a real debate on climate change before another 
devastating year of extreme weather that

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takes lives, destroys communities, and wreaks havoc on our society and 
our economy.

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