[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3479]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 MEDIA SILENT ON LACK OF GLOBAL WARMING

  (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, the media were quick to cover a 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study last year where 
scientists altered global surface temperature data to try and refute 
the two-decade halt in global warming. The L.A. Times, The New York 
Times, and USA Today all headlined NOAA's announcement that there was 
not a halt in global warming.
  However, a new peer-reviewed study, published in the journal Nature, 
confirms the halt in global warming. According to one of the study's 
lead authors, it ``essentially refutes'' NOAA's study. But the many 
well-respected scientists and their findings were ignored by much of 
the national media, including those that had previously reported there 
never was a halt in global warming.
  Americans deserve all the facts that surround climate change, not 
just those that fit the view the liberal national media wants to 
promote.

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