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Unidentified speaker urges Congress to recognize human-driven climate change, introduces resolution to protect research
Summary
An unidentified floor speaker asserted that climate change is human-caused by fossil fuel emissions, cited historical science, industry memos and NASA, and introduced a congressional resolution calling for preservation of legislatively mandated climate research; no vote was recorded in the transcript.
An unidentified speaker on the floor argued Friday that climate change is real, human-caused and the product of fossil fuel combustion, and introduced a resolution urging Congress to protect legislatively mandated climate research programs.
"And equally undeniably, the climate is changing," the speaker said, adding that those changes are "human caused by fossil fuel emissions." The speaker cited a long scientific record dating to Svante Arrhenius in 1896 and referenced a 1982 Exxon chart that, the speaker said, accurately predicted rises in CO2 and temperature.
The speaker invoked NASA as an authoritative source, quoting a…
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