claim: says. rep. joe barton, r-texas, once said, "wind is a finite resource and harnessing it would slow the winds down, which would cause the temperature to go up."
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evidence_1: from texas said wind was a finite resource and harnessing it would cause ... one quote attributed to him during that hearing has since become a popular internet ... it would slow the winds down, which would cause the temperature to go up. ... the texas congressman prefaced his remarks [pdf] by citing a paper written by ...
evidence_2: jun 18, 2010 ... his apology to bp was just the latest of the texas congressman's curious ... that said, barton has used the threat of global warming to combat ... in a 2009 hearing, barton implied that wind is a "finite resource" and that harnessing it would "slow the winds down" which would "cause the temperature to go up.
evidence_3: jan 28, 2017 ... rep. joe barton, r-texas, is not popular among environmentalists. ... the most extreme version we found said barton had claimed that “wind power would stop the earth from rotating. ... “wind is a finite resource and harnessing it would slow the winds down which would cause the temperature to go up.”.
evidence_4: oct 8, 2013 ... down, which would cause the temperature to go up. ... that said, barton has used the threat of global warming to combat ... wind is a "finite resource" and that harnessing it would "slow the winds down" which ... those tva turbines are at the top of a ridge where one can expect a lot of wind most of the time.
evidence_5: apr 22, 2009 ... rep. joe barton (r - texas) posted this exchange with energy secretary ... wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. ... which slows the winds down, which causes the temperature to go up? ... you stop something, you can't transfer that heat, and the heat goes up.