Unanimous Consent Request--S. Res. 551

Floor Speech

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Mr. JOHNSON. First of all, let me state that I am not a climate denier. I am just not a climate alarmist, like the Senators from Rhode Island and Massachusetts. So I am thinking of Chicken Little: ``The sky is falling.'' I am not sure how I am going to be able to sleep tonight.

I always found it very interesting when the Senator from Rhode Island was the chairman of the Budget Committee and we held numerous hearings on climate change with some tenuous connection to the budget. Again, very similar, ``the sky is falling,'' whether it is on insurance or housing costs or whatever.

During those hearings, I spoke about, probably a couple of times, and entered into the record the ``World Climate Declaration: There Is No Climate Emergency,'' signed by two Nobel Prize-winning physicists Dr. Ivan Yaeger and Dr. John Clauser, joined by about 25 other businesses, researchers, and scientists, and signed by a bunch of other people as well. It was a commonsense document.

The Senator from Rhode Island was talking about simple truths. Well, again, the simple truth is there is no climate emergency. The climate has always changed. It always will. CO2 is plant food.

More people die of extreme cold than of extreme heat. I mean, these are things that are brought out in these hearings, generally by the minority witnesses.

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Mr. JOHNSON. I suppose if it is procedural.

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Mr. JOHNSON. I am almost done. Do you want me to just object?

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Mr. JOHNSON. Great. Listen, listen, I have barely spent any time here, OK.

The bottom line is, in those hearings, I asked witnesses: How much have we spent combating climate change?

Five to six trillion dollars.

Our Energy Secretary puts the number at $10 trillion and calls it, correctly, the largest malinvestment in human history.

This isn't some simple resolution. This is setting up trillions of dollars of malinvestment, up to $50 trillion in testimony.

So, again, we can't afford this climate alarmism. We can't cave to the Chicken Littles of the Senate.

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