[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 4]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 5263]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             MEDIA IGNORE DISAGREEMENT ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING

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                            HON. LAMAR SMITH

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, April 27, 2016

  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the national liberal media promote 
the fiction that scientists all agree the earth continues to get warmer 
and that climate change causes severe weather events. However, there is 
little scientific consensus to support these claims.
  For example, one often-cited statistic comes from one author who 
examined abstracts of articles to conclude that 75 percent of 
scientists believe in global warming.
  But the author omitted abstracts from global warming skeptics. And 
the author never specifies how many of the abstracts actually endorse 
her conclusion that a ``consensus'' of scientists believes in climate 
change.
  Slanting data on climate change is contrary to the respected 
scientific method.
  Americans deserve all the facts that surround climate change, not 
just those that fit the view the national liberal media want to 
promote.

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