Wayne Allard: “I have concerns about the science that some people are claiming here on the floor of the Senate. I think that obviously…”

“I have concerns about the science that some people are claiming here on the floor of the Senate. I think that obviously if we are going to have good policy, we have to have good science. But let me say that from the reports I have seen, I think it is unclear as to what the long-range trend is as far as the temperature of the Earth is concerned. I admit that right now we are going through a warming period, but in the last few years we may have cooled a fraction of a degree. I am recalling when I was in high school in the late 1950s, that we had magazine articles, National Geographic and everyone were writing about how we were into a cold trend, and we were heading toward an ice age. Now we are heading toward the trend in the headlines where we have global warming. I have listened to some of the comments here on the floor. One comment was that: We are at the highest temperature on record--the problem is, the record we have of the Earth's warming and cooling is a relatively short period of time when you look at the total history of the Earth.”