"We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period!"

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"I was contacted by a reporter for National Public Radio. He offered to interview me, but only if I would state that the warming was due to human activity. When I refused to do so, he hung up on me. I had another interesting experience around the time my paper in Science was published. I received an astonishing email from a major researcher in the area of climate change. He said, "We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period." Dr. David Deming - University of Oklahoma's College of Geosciences

 

[livingston]

[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 14]
[Senate]
[Pages 19154-19160]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




CLIMATE CHANGE

Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I rise to speak today about the most
media-hyped environmental issue of all time. It is the word that gets
everybody upset when you say it and the word or the phrase that many
politicians are afraid to say, and that is ``global warming.'' I have
spoken more about global warming than any other politician in
Washington today. My speech will be a bit different from the previous
seven floor speeches I have made on this subject, as I focus not only
on the science, as I have many times before, but on the media's
coverage of climate change.
Global warming--just the term--evokes many Members in this Chamber,
the media, Hollywood elites, and our pop culture to nod their heads and
fret about an impending climate disaster. As the Senator who has spent
more time educating about the actual facts about global warming, I will
address some of the recent media coverage of global warming and
Hollywood's involvement in this issue. And, of course, I will also
discuss former Vice President Al Gore's movie, ``An Inconvenient
Truth.''
Let's keep in mind, I do chair the committee in the Senate called
Environment and Public Works, the committee that has jurisdiction. I
recall so well when I first became chairman of this committee, almost 4
years ago, I was actually a believer that because I had heard it so
many times there must be something to this thing, until I started
looking at the science. But I have talked about that before.
Since 1895, the media has alternated between global cooling and
global warming scares during four separate
and sometimes overlapping time periods. From 1895 until the 1930s, the
media peddled a coming ice age. From the late 1920s until the 1960s,
they warned of global warming. From the 1950s until the 1970s, they
warned us again of a coming ice age. This makes modern global warming
the fourth estate's fourth attempt to promote opposing climate change
fears during the last 100 years--4 times during the last 100 years--and
every time just as hysterical as the time before.

Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 14 - CLIMATE CHANGE

 

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