Today, Congressman Quigley delivered the following remarks on the House floor:

Madam Speaker, coal miners used to keep a canary to let them know when the air was getting dangerous.

Today we have much more sophisticated measurements, but the concept is still the same: The canary is dying.

Over 200 peer-reviewed studies have concluded that global warming is real, and potentially catastrophic.

No scientific peer reviewed studies have found the opposite. None.

But some of my colleagues have seized on a few illegally hacked emails to convince themselves that the little bird is fine.

Well that must be comforting – except it ignores the nasty case of asthma from increased emissions.  And the tiny bits of soot in the canary’s blood that boost harmful inflammation.

Watching my colleagues hold that canary up like Monty Python’s dead parrot would be funny if it were just an imaginary bird.

But it’s not a bird we’re killing with increased emissions. It’s our children.

And that’s the way it will always be.