[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6088]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             CLIMATE CHANGE

  (Mr. LOWENTHAL asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LOWENTHAL. Madam Speaker, last week in the Natural Resources 
Committee one of my esteemed colleagues from across the aisle claimed 
that the scientific evidence regarding human contributions to climate 
change was inconclusive.
  Well, Stanford researcher, Dr. James Powell, a geochemist, and a 12-
year member of the non-partisan National Science Board, recently 
completed an update to his survey of peer-reviewed literature on 
climate change.
  As it points out, in the year 2013, there were 10,885 peer-reviewed 
articles and only two rejected human contributions towards climate 
change. That is less than two hundredths of 1 percent.
  Madam Speaker, this is not disagreement. This is not a divided 
scientific community, case closed. Congress must stop denying the 
science and take action. Future generations are depending upon us.

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