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The radical left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming. - Ted Cruz

The scientific evidence doesn't support global warming. For the last 18 years, the satellite data - we have satellites that monitor the atmosphere. The satellites that actually measure the temperature showed no significant warming whatsoever. Ted Cruz, 2015, quoted by NPR

There is a growing consensus the days of ignoring this issue are over. If we all agree that reducing emissions is important I think we have a better way of approaching that than the Green New Deal. - John Cornyn, 2019, quoted by Houston Chronicle

Apparently this climate change was global freezing back in the 1970s. Then global warming and then, when it quit warming, now it's climate change. - Louie Gohmert

I recently joined House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy in unveiling a proposal that takes existing innovative technologies — ones that have proven to reduce emissions here in the United States — that the U.S. can then market and export to the world. After all, climate change is a global issue, and with global energy demand expected to increase by 25 percent over the next 20 years, there is a distinct need for the U.S. to export cleaner energy sources to the developing world, as well as to the biggest CO2 emitters, such as China and India. Crushing our own economy, as the Green New Deal would have us do, will not stop worldwide growth in emissions or decrease worldwide energy demand. - Dan Crenshaw, 2020 in op-ed to National Review

I do not believe that energy development and good stewardship of the environment are mutually exclusive. Yet today, excessive and burdensome regulations are stifling many sectors of our economy with energy getting hit especially hard because of the out-of-control EPA. - Van Taylor

America has a climate politics problem. Few think Democrats have the answers to solving climate change, and most don’t believe Republicans take the issue seriously. Climate change threatens to impact our everyday lives and we need to take steps to address the causes of increasing global temperatures. - Lance Gooden House website

The Houston Climate Forum showed that #TX07 voters agree—climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing our world today, and we're ready for an advocate who will prioritize addressing what we can do about it. - Lizzie Fletcher

With the release of the International Panel on Climate Change report, there is clear scientific consensus that human activities, and particularly the burning of fossil fuels, have increased emissions of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and other trace greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. - Al Green

Last year, I was briefed by the head of Earth Sciences at NASA to discuss this important issue. The national security assessments are clear. Climate change poses risks to the security of the United States and the international community. The best way to address climate change, however, is less clear. - Michael McCaul, 2019, Statement of Lead Republican Michael McCaul

Our Nation does not need more dictator-style executive orders from President Biden. Already, he has unilaterally killed thousands of jobs with his plethora of executive actions. Our district is one of the main reasons a climate emergency is not needed. Thanks to American ingenuity and clean burning natural gas, the United States of America has already reduced CO2 emissions to a 20-year low. - August Pfluger, 2021 statement

The temperature of the Earth has fluctuated over time. At one point, much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered with ice, for example. A number of factors influence the Earth’s temperature, including variations in the amount of heat coming from the sun, changes in the Earth’s orbit, shifts in the continents through plate tectonics, and levels of volcanic activity. Obviously, we cannot do much to affect those factors. - Mac Thornberry, on climate science

I do believe climate change is a real threat. I believe that we need to develop policy that promotes job creation with responsible development but protects communities impacted from flaring, stripping, water contamination, water shortage, hazardous waste, unsafe living conditions, and other infrastructure deficiencies. - Vicente Gonzalez

Addressing climate change is our urgent obligation; even climate change deniers must finally recognize the dire situation in front of us. - Veronica Escobar

We cannot afford to deny the reality of climate change, or to roll back our commitment to a sustainable future for all the generations to come. - Sheila Jackson Lee

Leaving the Paris Agreement is an abandonment of U.S. global leadership. With the President’s decision today, the United States joins Syria and Nicaragua as one of only three nations in the world not to participate in the deal. - Joaquín Castro

We must address climate change without putting more burdens on the backs of working class Americans. When clean jobs are readily available, then we can address climate change adequately. There must be an end to government overreach and overregulation; it could do irreparable harm to the middle class. - Tony Gonzalez, quoted in El Paso Times

It's important that the science behind global climate change be acknowledged. And clearly, at the rate we're going with the leadership in the current [House Science] Committee, it's probably not going to happen. - Eddie Bernice Johnson

As an active member of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition and the Safe Climate Caucus, I strongly oppose President Trump’s disastrous choice to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. He abandons American families to the growing harm of climate change and surrenders leadership on renewable energy to foreign competitors, like China and Germany. - Lloyd Doggett