In other Republican news, Joe Barton keeps on giving:

Texas Rep. Cites Biblical Flood as Example of Climate Change

In his five-minute remarks today on the Keystone Pipeline, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, pointed out a “divergence of evidence” on global warming, citing the biblical Great Flood as an example of climate change.
Barton delivered remarks today at the Subcommittee on Energy and Power hearing in support of the Northern Route Approval Act, legislation that would grant Congress the authority to approve the controversial Keystone petroleum pipeline.

“I would point out that people like me who support hydrocarbon development don’t deny that climate is changing,” Barton, 63, said. “I think you can have an honest difference of opinion of what’s causing that change without automatically being either all in – that’s all because of mankind or it’s all just natural. I think there’s a divergence of evidence.”

But it was his reference to the biblical flood that left people scratching their heads.

Although Barton acknowledged the changing climate, he compared the changing environment to the biblical story of Noah’s Ark and the Great Flood in an attempt to defend his claim that natural tendencies can perpetuate climate change.

“I would point out that if you’re a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change, and that certainly wasn’t because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy,” he said.

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Here’s the video:

Youtube Video!

Barton comes on at 1:03.