Tom McClintock says he, "not Al Gore", discovered climate change

cite as: F. Bi. 2009. Tom McClintock says he, “not Al Gore”, discovered climate change. Intl. J. Inact., 2:43–45

Listen to McClintock speaking at the “2009 International Conference on Climate Change” (640KB, 1′ 20″ MP3). Source: extracted and re-coded from the Heartland Institute web site.

Some found poetry from Tom McClintock’s speech at the Heartland Institute’s (ahem!) “2009 International Conference on Climate Change”:

You see,
it was me, Tom McClintock,
who discovered
the theory
of global climate change.
Not Al Gore.

Yet all you hear about
is ‘Al Gore this’ and ‘Al Gore that’.

My climate change discovery came
in the fall
of 1964 —
long before the world
had ever heard of Al Gore —
when Ms. Conroy took
our third grade elementary school class
to the Museum of Natural History.

It was there
that we saw
a panorama of dinosaurs
tromping around the steamy swamps
of what is now part of Wyoming.

And now that panorama
was right next
to an exhibit
of woolly mammoths
foraging on the glaciers
that was once
the same part of Wyoming.

And I thought to myself,
“Gee, those dinosaurs look cool.”

And then I thought to myself,
“Oh my god,
the climate must be changing
from time to time!”

And I never got
a Nobel Prize
for that discovery.