Joe Barton Quotes
For us to try and step in and say we have got to do all these global things to prevent the earth from getting any warmer in my opinion is absolute nonsense. It’s not going to happen
Joe Barton, U.S. congressperson (Republican, TX), Quoted in Mother Jones, May 2007
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Many Republicans were in denial about climate change claiming that all the scientists were wrong about the facts of global warming and the danger to man that it posed. Beauprez, however, had an almost unique position among candidates. He agreed that climate change was a great danger, however, he thought the concern of most Democrats and some liberal Republicans was unnecessary hysteria because God will save the Earth—His creation.
His Virgin Group companies founded a biofuels research and production company.
This was his last House debate and whereas almost all scientists had agreed that climate change was a serious challenge to the nation, an ideologically driven majority of his Republican Party denied that that there was any climate change that was different from the usual vicissitudes of nature, he tried to persuade his anti-scientific, conservative colleagues to face reality.
Many environmentalists who urgently tried to reduce man’s use of fossil fuels, objected when clean energy windmills were proposed. They objected to the possible damage to flying birds and the aesthetic degradation of the landscape.
The Paris Agreement was an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) dealing with greenhouse gases emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance starting in the year 2020. The language of the agreement was negotiated by representatives of 195 countries at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC in Paris and adopted by consensus on December 12, 2015. Never before in the history of the world had that many nations agreed on anything. Yet the United States Donald Trump administration, and a significant proportion of right wing and Tea Party Repoblicans actually believed that the threat of climate change was a hoax and at best the erroneous conclusion of "left wing" scientists. Within the wcientific community in the United State, there were very few major scientific issues for which there was almost unanamous consensus. Climat change and the role of humans in accelerating it was one of those.
Joe Linus Barton is an American politician who represented Texas's 6th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985 to 2019. The district included Arlington, part of Fort Worth, and several small towns and rural areas south of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. He was also a member of the Tea Party Caucus. In 2014, Barton became the longest-serving member of the Texas congressional delegation.
