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  • Marjorie Taylor Greene: ‘If You Look at the Ice Ages, None of the... (en)
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  • Marjorie Taylor Greene: ‘If You Look at the Ice Ages, None of the People Back in the Ices Ages Paid a Bunch of Taxes to Melt the Ice’ Claim 'If you look at the Ice Ages, none of the people back in the Ices Ages paid a bunch of taxes to melt the ice.' -- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, explaining why she doesn't believe in anthropogenic climate change [on January 5 2022] on Tim Pool's live YouTube show. Rating True Like this fact check? Reporting On January 6 2022, a Twitter thread addressed comments about climate change and ice ages taxes purportedly made by Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) the previous night during an appearance on Tim Pool’s podcast: If you look at the Ice Ages, none of the people back in the Ices Ages paid a bunch of taxes to melt the ice. — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, explaining why she doesn't believe in anthropogenic climate change tonight on Tim Pool's live YouTube show. — Robert Silverman (@BobSaietta) January 6, 2022 Greene was quoted as saying: If you look at the Ice Ages, none of the people back in the Ices Ages paid a bunch of taxes to melt the ice. Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die A very basic mention of context (her appearance on a livestream with podcaster Tim Pool) was referenced, but it was not linked. A search of Twitter returned what appeared to be a clip of Greene’s remarks, once again appearing without a link to the source for the video: Wait to you see her views on astronomy. pic.twitter.com/xNkGzQOGwi — Darren Zaleschuk (@DarrenZed) January 6, 2022 In that clip, Greene said in part: I really just don’t believe it’s people’s fault that the climate changes ... the climate’s been changing since the beginning of time — if you look at the ice ages ... none of the people back in the ice ages paid a lot of taxes to melt the ice ... so it’s absolutely ridiculous to say that government solutions ... paying more taxes to try to figure out how to reduce carbon — on paper really, not in reality — is going to do anything about climate change. The climate just changes ... we live on a ball [laughs], it is literally a ball that spins ... and this spinning ball, Earth, rotates around a flaming ball, which is the sun. and and the same time, this is moving throughout our, uh, galaxy which is moving throughout the universe ... i would just argue ... of course our climate is gonna change ... We located Pool’s livestream on YouTube, which originally aired on January 5 2021 and lasted for two hours and five minutes. Greene’s none of the people back in the Ice Ages paid a lot of taxes to melt the ice commentary originated in that livestream, around 01:31:40 . Greene made the statement in response to a question about her craziest beliefs. Article Sources + If you look at the Ice Ages, none of the people back in the Ices Ages paid a bunch of taxes to melt the ice. -- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, explaining why she doesn't believe in anthropogenic climate change tonight on Tim Pool's live YouTube show. | Twitter If you look at the Ice Ages, none of the people back in the Ices Ages paid a bunch of taxes to melt the ice. -- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, explaining why she doesn't believe in anthropogenic climate change tonight on Tim Pool's live YouTube show. | Twitter (video) Timcast IRL - Marjorie Taylor Greene Joins Discussing Getting Censored And 2022 Posted in Fact Checks , Politics Tagged climate change , marjorie taylor greene , marjorie taylor greene ice ages , Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene , tim pool , viral tweets , viral videos (en)
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