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Don Young: “I love his theory, but one thing I would ask the gentleman. Two years ago I was in New Mexico standing and overlooking a…”

On the recordJune 26, 2001
I love his theory, but one thing I would ask the gentleman. Two years ago I was in New Mexico standing and overlooking a huge ice action and the gentleman with me said, you know, think about it, Congressman, 12 million years ago there was 284 feet of ice where you are standing. I never will ask how the ice got there, but it was there, and that has scientifically been proven. But I will ask the gentleman from Maryland, what melted that ice all the way back to the North Pole when our activity is less than 4,000 years? So I want to ask the gentleman, what melted it all the way back there? It always intrigues me about the idea of how arrogant we are thinking we are the real problem for all of the problems that occur on this earth.
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Don Young
Republican · Alaska

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Discussing climate change and historical ice coverage during a debate.

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