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Global Warming

Floor Speech

Date: Dec. 14, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Energy Environment

Mr. QUIGLEY. Madam Speaker, coal miners used to keep a canary with them to let them know when the air was getting dangerous. Today, we have much more sophisticated measurements, but the concept is still the same: The canary is dying.

Over 200 peer-reviewed studies have concluded that global warming is real and potentially catastrophic. No scientific peer-reviewed studies have found the opposite. None. But some of my colleagues have seized on a few illegally hacked e-mails to convince themselves that the little bird is fine. Well, that must be comforting, except it ignores the nasty case of asthma from increased emissions and the tiny bits of soot that thicken the canary's blood and boost harmful inflammation.

Watching my colleagues hold the canary like Monty Python's dead parrot would be funny if it were just an imaginary bird, but it's not a canary we're killing with increased emissions. It's our children.

And that's the way it will always be.


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