[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 587-588]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    DATA IS BETTER THAN PREDICTIONS

  (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, whenever you see climate change in 
the news, remember the difference between actual data and exaggerated 
predictions. For example, much coverage was given yesterday to the 
predictions by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that polar bears now 
face extinction because of climate change. That prediction is 
contradicted by the evidence. The polar bear population has been 
increasing and is now around 26,000, probably the highest number in 
many years.
  Climate alarmists want to scare people with extreme predictions. 
Better for Americans to look at the scientific evidence and discount 
the wild tales. Climate change has many causes and has occurred 
throughout the history of the Earth. Real scientists acknowledge

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this and are hesitant to make long-range predictions.

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