Joe Barton: Warming

Joe Barton is United States congressional representative from Texas. Explore interesting quotes on warming.
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“As long as I am chairman, [regulating global warming pollution] is off the table indefinitely. I don't want there to be any uncertainty about that.”

Joe Barton

Congressional hearing entitled, "National Energy Policy: Coal" Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality (March 14, 2001) http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/useftp.cgi?IPaddress=162.140.64.21&filename=71503.wais&directory=/diskc/wais/data/107_house_hearings

“Wouldn't it be ironic if in the interest of global warming we mandated massive switches to energy, which is a finite resource, which slows the winds down, which causes the temperature to go up?”

Joe Barton

House of Representative Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Hearing on &quot; Renewable Energy: Complementary Policies for Climate Legislation https://web.archive.org/web/20090325151942/http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090226/transcript_20090226_ee.pdf&quot;, , quoted in <br class="br">Context: Wind is God&#x27;s way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it&#x27;s hotter to areas where it&#x27;s cooler. That&#x27;s what wind is. Wouldn&#x27;t it be ironic if in the interest of global warming we mandated massive switches to energy, which is a finite resource, which slows the winds down, which causes the temperature to go up? Now, I&#x27;m not saying that&#x27;s going to happen, Mr. Chairman, but that is definitely something on the massive scale. I mean, it does make some sense. You stop something, you can&#x27;t transfer that heat, and the heat goes up. It&#x27;s just something to think about.

“Global warming science is uneven and evolving.”

Joe Barton

Republicans frosty on Gore&#x27;s global warming warnings, CNN, 2007-03-21 http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/21/gore.ap/index.html,