Ed Whitfield: “I certainly have a great deal of respect for the gentlelady from California, and I might add, we have heard a lot today…”

“I certainly have a great deal of respect for the gentlelady from California, and I might add, we have heard a lot today about climate change. Former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, herself, stated in a hearing: We will not ultimately be able to change the amount of CO<INF>2</INF> that is accumulating in the atmosphere alone. By that, she meant the United States, and there are a couple of reasons she said that. First of all, 96 percent of CO<INF>2</INF> emissions are naturally occurring; manmade is around 4 percent. I might also point out that, in the recent fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, they acknowledged a lack of warming since 1998, and they acknowledged the growing discrepancy between their climate model projections versus actual readings. So it is not that people are denying. It is that there is a significant difference among the scientific community about what is manmade CO<INF>2</INF> contributing and what is naturally occurring CO<INF>2</INF>. To the gentlelady's amendment, the Premier of Saskatchewan was in my office today, talking about the Canadian project that the gentlewoman from California referred to. It is not in operation yet. He did say that it would not have been built without government funds; and her amendment would simply say that, if it is working in Canada, the EPA could apply that and make it mandatory here.…”