{"id":9961,"date":"2013-04-10T13:45:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T20:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9961"},"modified":"2013-04-10T21:43:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T04:43:49","slug":"rep-joe-barton-says-biblical-great-flood-proves-climate-change-not-man-made-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9961","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Joe Barton Says Biblical &#8216;Great Flood&#8217; Proves Climate Change Not Man Made [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) actually said this&#8230;during a hearing in the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><embed src='http:\/\/rawreplaymedia.com\/fvp\/fvp5.8\/player.swf' height='256' width='420' allowscriptaccess='always' allowfullscreen='true' flashvars=\"&#038;bandwidth=344&#038;file=http%3A%2F%2Frawreplaymedia.com%2Fmedia%2F2012%2F1212%2Fhouse_barton_flood_130410a.mp4&#038;image=http%3A%2F%2Frawreplaymedia.com%2Fmedia%2F2012%2F1212%2Fhouse_barton_flood_130410c.jpg&#038;logo=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawreplaymedia.com%2Ffvp%2Frsvidlogo05.png&#038;plugins=viral-2h&#038;skin=http%3A%2F%2Frawreplaymedia.com%2Ffvp%2Ffvp5.8%2Fbeelden.zip&#038;viral.allowmenu=true&#038;viral.email_footer=http%3A%2F%2Frawstory.com&#038;viral.link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2Frs%2F2013%2F04%2F10%2Frep-joe-barton-biblical-great-flood-shows-climate-change-isnt-man-made%2F&#038;viral.oncomplete=false&#038;viral.onpause=false&#038;viral.pluginmode=FLASH&#038;logo.link=http:\/\/rawstory.com&#038;logo.file=http:\/\/www.rawreplaymedia.com\/fvp\/rsvidlogo05.png\"\/><\/embed><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what he <i>actually<\/i> said &#8212; out loud &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/04\/10\/rep-joe-barton-biblical-great-flood-shows-climate-change-isnt-man-made\/\">via RAW STORY<\/a> [<i>emphasis added<\/i>]&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t deny that the climate is changing,&#8221;\u009d he said. &#8220;I think you can have an honest difference of opinion on what&#8217;s causing that change without automatically being either all-in that it&#8217;s all because of mankind or it&#8217;s all just natural. I think there&#8217;s a divergence of evidence.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would point out if you&#8217;re a believer in the Bible, <b>one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change. And that certainly wasn&#8217;t because mankind overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.<\/b>&#8220;\u009d <\/div>\n<p>You may remember Barton from 2010, after the BP oil spill in the Gulf, as the man who actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-20008020-503544\/rep-joe-barton-apologizes-to-bps-tony-hayward-for-white-house-shakedown-video-\/\"><i>apologized<\/i> to BP&#8217;s then CEO<\/a> during a U.S. House hearing, for what he described as a White House &#8220;shakedown&#8221;, after the company agreed to pay some $20 billion to help clean up the unprecedented disaster and help restore the livelihoods of many who lost everything thanks to the spill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) actually said this&#8230;during a hearing in the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power today&#8230; Here&#8217;s what he actually said &#8212; out loud &#8212; via RAW STORY [emphasis added]&#8230; &#8220;I don&#8217;t deny that the climate is changing,&#8221;\u009d he said. &#8220;I think you can have an honest difference of opinion on what&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[543,200,608,300,198],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-joe-barton","category-republicans","category-us-house","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9961"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}