I think Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX) may be crazy

Quotes for the Day:

Question:

“What causes, in your perspective, global warming?”

Congressman Barton (R-TX):

“Well, the short answer would be God…….. It is a, we are in a natural cycle and it appears that the Earth is in a slight cooling period for the next thirty to fifty years and the dominant cause of that are the oceans. The Atlantic and the Pacific are in a little cooling period….But the Co2 concentrations going up don’t seem to be doing what the IPCC model says it should...”

Barton is the former chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee. He doesn’t believe that that dramatic increase in carbon levels is one of the reasons that the earth is warming. In fact, he thinks it is cooling.

So carbon has nothing to do with it according to Rep. Barton. What about all the scientists and the peer reviewed scientific papers that indicate other wise?

Question (paraphrased):

…. The IPCC panel of about 2000 scientists and experts representing different governments from a variety of institutions from around the world, with a wide variety of perspectives as a group have not been persuaded by Anti-Global Warming advocates like yourself, why and how can you change their consensus on global warming now?

Congressman Barton (R-TX) (at 18:30):

“…….When you talk about thousands of scientist most of those are not original creator (sic) thinkers. They are implementers. They are facilitators. There are … only fifty to one hundred in the world that are in that are in the top tier and more and more it is appearing that they have engaged in either a conscious, uh, effort to withhold the truth from the world …. uh or maybe…. or maybe, maybe …. they’ve decided, uh, without realizing it that they have become so …ideology committed that they lost sight, lost track of the true scientific method… I don’t know, but its something that really does need to be investigated and I don’t make any apologies for trying to get that investigation started.”

Shorter Joe Barton:

• There is a cabal of 50 to 100 scientists who really understand climate change.
• This Cabal of Scientists is responsible for the global warming hoax.
• They have brainwashed other scientists and are trying to brainwash America (See 12:30)
• The hoax is being perpetrated due to religious or ideological belief.

Longer Joe Barton: