mr. schmitt named the island uunartoq here's warming island. it's very interesting.teresting shape. this is an image from 1985 and you can see it's connected to the rest of greenland. by 2002, the ice ridge is becoming less and less and by 2005, in fact, it opens up and reveals itself to be an island. here's a current relatively current map of greenland showing what people thought. approximate this is the place called carls bad fjord and you noticed this three-fingered area and this was considered to be part of the mainland. now, every scientist who's studied greenland knows that it was warmer or as warm for an integrated period much longer than the current time in the early and mid-20th century and it just turns out that there's a weather station which is about 50 nautical miles away from warming island. it's not very far at all. it doesn't take that many clicks to get to this data either. it takes a few more than it does to get to the u.s. data but the danish meteorological institute has a very, very nice set of weather records around greenland. the integrated warm

mrs. schmitt: i want to thank the -- mrs. smidt: i want to thank the gentlelady for her kind words on this issue. before i turn this over to another gentleperson regarding this issue, i'd like to explain to the speaker one of the situations that we're talking about is the potential funding of abortions for the district of columbia and one of the things that i think we might forget is that article one of the u.s. constitution says congress holds the authority over the district of columbia, exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever. that's why the entire budget for the district of columbia, including revenues generated by local sources, must be appropriated by congress through an annual appropriations bill. this was the so-called dornan amendment named after congressman dornan for fiscal year 1989 appropriations bill that he talked about in 1988. this bill has -- this bill has been in place pretty much consistently over that time. the white house budget document released on may 7, appendix page 1209 asks congress to reveal

mr. schmitt's response was his map has to be wrong. well, i haven't seen another map yet. we say are true go unquestioned in this climate and like i said, it's not just one party. i'd like to close with the red red koyapigaktoruk comes bob, bob, bobbin along. robins in the arctic. you've all heard this. senator john mccain, 2004, the language 10,000 years never had a word for robin and now there are robins all over their villages. the bbc program on climate change title, no word for robin, climate change in the canadian arctic. okay, where are the fact-checkers on this one. come on. there are staffers over here on the hill that had to have had a computer, which would be connected to the library of congress. there are fact checkers at the bbc who could connect with the british museum. or whatever. 1953, the journal arctic, volume 6 pages 35-43 by l. irving, the naming of birds by the nunamiut eskimo. robin equals koyapigaktoruk. nobody bothered to check. or in 1913, a great book by the way. this guy went and lived up there. my life among the eskimo. mackenzie eskimo or alas