Political Quotes

“Mr. President, what I would like to speak about is a new form of fossil fuel-funded climate denial spin that has just entered the climate debate. They are always up to something, and here is their latest. The Trump administration's two great scientists, Scott Pruitt and Rick Perry, the Frick and Frack of climate denial, have called for a science showdown, where climate denial and climate science can have it out for once and for all--red team versus blue team. ``Fossil fuel man'' Pruitt has even called for the showdown to be peer reviewed. Well, what is comical about that is that climate science has been peer reviewed all along. That is how it gets to be science--by going through and surviving the process of peer review by other scientists. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a letter to Administrator Pruitt from a wide range of scientific organizations pointing out to him this very fact, that climate science is called climate science because it has been through scientific peer review. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: July 31, 2017. Hon. Scott Pruitt, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC.…”