[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5874]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             VICE PRESIDENT GORE'S PREDICTIONS ARE NOT TRUE

  (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. Madam Speaker, in 2006, former Vice President Al 
Gore released his film, ``An Inconvenient Truth.'' Now, a decade later, 
most of Vice President Gore's predictions, inconveniently, have not 
become true.
  For example, he claimed that Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest 
peak, would be snow free within the decade; yet there is still snow on 
Kilimanjaro year round.
  Mr. Gore claimed that extreme weather would intensify due to climate 
change, but even the very liberal Intergovernmental Panel on Climate 
Change found low confidence that extreme weather events would increase 
in the future.
  Mr. Gore also, conveniently, ignored the 15-year halt in global 
warming. A recent peer-reviewed study published in the journal 
``Nature'' confirms this hiatus.
  The only truth is that Mr. Gore's predictions, like those of many 
climate change extremists, simply have not become true.

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