Pete Sessions: “I thank Senator Inhofe for his leadership on this issue. I recall several years ago, as a member of the EPW Committee…”

“I thank Senator Inhofe for his leadership on this issue. I recall several years ago, as a member of the EPW Committee, we served on the Clean Air Subcommittee and had field hearings and took testimony from a number of the scientists who are still speaking out and discussing the issue of global warming. I remember Dr. Lindzen from Harvard sat back in one of our hearings, kind of relaxed, and he said: We can debate this global warming, but even if we do, the things people are proposing are not going to have any significant impact on the global climate situation in which we are involved. I do think, as Senator Inhofe has ably pointed out, a lot of the scientific data is being disputed. One of the issues that I know about personally and have heard this witness, Dr. Christy, testify about, is the satellite data. Dr. John Christy at the University of Alabama at Huntsville studies NASA scientist space data, temperature readings in the upper atmosphere. According to the models that were supposed to predict global warming, those models called for the increase in temperature to show up first in the upper atmosphere. According to his rigorous analysis of the upper atmosphere temperatures, they have not increased in the last 15 or 20 years--maybe just the most minute fraction, but probably not any.”