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'The bill passed by a 229-183 vote. Ten Democrats, mostly from coal-producing states or the South, joined Republicans in support of it. Three Republicans opposed the bill.'

Rep. Holt: 'The evidence for climate change is strong enough that we should be taking very bold and very expensive action, because the costs of not taking action will be even more expensive.'

'I think we need to address greenhouse gas emissions. But I try to get involved in issues were I see a legislative result…So why should I waste my time when I know the people on the left are going to reject nuclear power?'

John Holdren characterized Prof. Roger Pielke Jr. as being outside the 'scientific mainstream' at a Senate climate hearing for his views on extreme events and climate change 

Pielke Jr. Fires Back at Holdren: 'When a political appointee uses his position not just to disagree on science or policy but to seek to delegitimize a colleague, he has gone too far.'

Pielke Jr. responds: 'It is rare for political appointee in any capacity -- the president's science advisor no less -- to accuse an individual academic of holding views are are not simply wrong, but in fact scientifically illegitimate. Very strong stuff.'

'Holdren's response is sloppy and reflects extremely poorly on him. Far from showing that I am outside the scientific mainstream, Holdren's follow-up casts doubt on whether he has even read my Senate testimony. Holdren's justification for seeking to use his position as a political appointee to delegitimize me personally reflects poorly on his position and office, and his response simply reinforces that view.'

'Is this really coming from the president's science advisor? Holdren is flat-out wrong to accuse me of omitting a key statement from my testimony. Again, remarkable, inexcusable sloppiness.'

'The bottom line here is that this is an extremely poor showing by the president's science advisor. It is fine for experts to openly disagree. But when a political appointee uses his position not just to disagree on science or policy but to seek to delegitimize a colleague, he has gone too far.'

Watch Now: Fox Business Uses Moore's Statement To Call Climate Change A 'Scam.' On the February 27 edition of Varney & Company, host Stuart Varney introduced Patrick Moore by exclaiming incredulously, "the co-founder of Greenpeace," going on to repeat Moore's statement that "environmentalists have been using faulty climate models and scare tactics to back up their claims." Fox's Charles Payne agreed, saying "we shouldn't base policy on this because it's more of a scam.

Watch Now: CNBC's Joe Kernen Used Moore's Talking Points To Compare Climate Science To 'Witchcraft.' - 'On the February 27 edition of Squawk Box, CNBC co-host Joe Kernen read Moore's testimony: 'Looking at this, it's almost like witch[craft]. In the Middle Ages, you would attribute adverse weather events to witchcraft, now we just have CO2.'

Moore on man-made global warming: 'It is a powerful convergence of interests among a very large number of elites, including politicians who want to make it seem as though they're saving the world, environmentalists who want to raise money and get control over very large issues like our entire energy policy, media, for sensationalism, Universities and professors for grants. You can't hardly get a science grant these days without saying it has something to do with climate change.'

'People need to study the long history of the Earth. These true believers in climate change are only looking at the last 100 years. That is a blink in nature's eye. We've had billions of years of climate history in this world, and if you look at just the half billion of them, the most recent half billion, you will see that CO2 is lower now than it has been through most of the history of life on Earth, and so is the temperature.'

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Greenpeace Co-Founder Tells U.S. Senate: Earth’s Geologic History ‘fundamentally contradicts’ CO2 Climate Fears: ‘We had both higher temps and an ice age at a time when CO2 emissions were 10 times higher than they are today’