[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5190]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               ADMINISTRATION USES CLIMATE SCARE TACTICS

  (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 Obama administration recently 
released a report that tried to tie extreme weather events to climate 
change. This is the administration's latest effort to scare the public 
into supporting its radical climate agenda. The report ignores science 
in order to justify the administration's dire predictions.
  For example, the administration's report says that hurricanes are 
projected to increase. But hurricanes have not increased in intensity, 
frequency, or damage since 1900. The same can be said for almost all 
other extreme weather events.
  The administration continues to incite fear so that Americans will 
wrongly believe that extreme climate events are due to climate change, 
but the administration should not push costly climate regulations on 
Americans when there is no good reason for them to do so.

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