[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 6997-6998]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              COLUMNIST MAKES FALSE CLIMATE CHANGE CLAIMS

  (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, recently a prominent New York Times

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columnist recycled disproven assertions to criticize businessman Donald 
Trump's views on climate change. This type of alarmist rhetoric is what 
we have come to expect from liberal pundits and the media, but science 
doesn't back the columnist's claims.
  Extreme weather events are not getting weirder. There is no evidence 
that weather events such as hurricanes, tornados, droughts, and floods 
have increased in number due to climate change.
  Last year, at the Paris climate conference, the President said that 
fish swim in the streets of Miami because of a downpour caused by 
climate change. He was immediately contradicted by his own government 
agency that said the flooding was due to lunar cycles, not climate 
change.
  Climate alarmists should speak the truth, not try to promote a 
political agenda.

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