Mr. Speaker, NASA has given us a good reason to limit the amount of funds the agency gets for climate change. They recently claimed that a landslide in Alaska, fires in Yellowstone National Park in 1988, and a drought in California were all due to climate change. But extreme weather events actually had been declining over the last few decades at the same time that carbon emissions have been increasing. That NASA has played so fast and loose with the facts with the clear intent to mislead the American people shows why they can't be trusted with hard-earned taxpayers' dollars. Cervantes wrote in Don Quixote that ``one swallow doesn't make a summer.'' Well, one weather event doesn't presage climate change disaster. Ignore the media's exaggerations, the alarmists' predictions, and scientists trying to scare men, women, and small children. As for NASA, let's get them out of hyping climate change and back to exploring space. ____________________
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