“I cannot imagine any objective finding that CO2 is a pollutant. If that's true, God is a polluter.”

—  Joe Barton

Congress and global warming, Reprint of article by Greenwire, 2006-08-07 http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/8/2/134832/8334,

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United States congressional representative from Texas 1949

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