[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19559]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      CLIMATE CHANGE SOUNDS FISHY

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, President Obama is misleading 
Americans about climate change. At a news conference in Paris, the 
President claimed that fish are swimming through the streets of Miami 
as a result of climate change. There is indeed something fishy about 
this story.
  According to the National Weather Service, south Florida has been 
under a coastal flood advisory as a result of ``high . . . tides due to 
the lunar cycle.'' This is the cause of the high tides which 
subsequently led to flooding in low-lying areas.
  The alignment of the Earth, Moon, and Sun, along with strong easterly 
winds, caused the abnormal tides, not climate change. How could the 
President not know this?
  Mr. Speaker, the administration's alarmism and exaggeration is not 
good science; it is science fiction. The administration wants to 
advance an extreme climate change agenda that will damage our economy 
and have little impact on global warming.

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