Rep. Joe Barton is a long-time Texas Congressman with a love for fossil fuels and a penchant for the dramatic. So it shouldn’t be a great surpise that yesterday, during a House hearing on the Keystone XL pipeline, Rep. Barton went biblical when talking about his support for the project.<\/p>\n
Said. Rep Barton: \u201cI would point out that if you\u2019re a believer in in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn\u2019t because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n That’s an interesting point of view. It’s not one, however that’s held by the scientific community, who actually studies this stuff. As you know somewhere around 97% of atmospheric scientists believe in anthropegenic climate change. They may believe in the Great Flood too, but I doubt they would cite that as evidence that man is not affecting the climate. Leave that to Rep. Barton.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rep. Joe Barton is a long-time Texas Congressman with a love for fossil fuels and a penchant for the dramatic. So it shouldn’t be a great surpise that yesterday, during a House hearing on the Keystone XL pipeline, Rep. Barton went biblical when talking about his support for the project.<\/p>\n Said. Rep Barton: \u201cI would point out that if you\u2019re a believer in in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn\u2019t because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n That’s an interesting point of view. It’s not one, however that’s held by the scientific community, who actually studies this stuff. As you know somewhere around 97% of atmospheric scientists believe in anthropegenic climate change. They may believe in the Great Flood too, but I doubt they would cite that as evidence that man is not affecting the climate. Leave that to Rep. Barton.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n