Here are some quotes from the long-awaited transcript of Thomas Gale Moore's testimony before the U.S. Congress Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, Committee on Science, November 16, 1995. I have typed in a few of the more interesting areas, taking as much care as I could to preserve the original, including the mistakes in grammar and spelling that are all too common in transcripts of oral testimony. A section wthin brackets is my summary of a reference in Moore's prepared written comments. I may type in more later, but I beleive that Moore's major remarks are contained within these quotes. Quote #1: pg. 136 -- Moore's Bottom Line The bottom line is. Since the last Ice Age around 10- to 12,000 years ago, there have been two periods on earth where the globe is significantly warmer than today. The first period, about 3000 to 6000 years ago, was a period where the average temperature has been estimated that it was about 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than today, about the level that is the upper level now with the predictions for global warming in the year 2100. So we have already experienced that on this Earth. And it was a time of great prosperity for mankind. At the start of this period, agriculture was invented literally around the world, within a very short period of time, depending on how long you archeologists differ on how long modern man has been around, some people say 120,000 years, some people say 45,000. In any case, for most of that history mankind operated as a hunter-gathered and was not a farmer. Quote #2: pg. 139 -- Moore's Disclaimer Now climate warming is not going to benefit everybody, and certainly if you get a rise in the sea level there are going to be places like the Maldive Islands which have an average height of something like three feet which are going to be in trouble. Fortunately, there are not many people in the Maldive Islands and we can do something about that. Quote #3: pg. 140 -- Moore Tropical Topics First, on tropical diseases. If you get a statistical abstract and look at the back in the international comparision statistics, you will find that the place that has the longest life expectancy in the world is Hong Kong. It is in the tropics. Singapore is virtually on the Equator. It has a life expectancy equal to Western Europe or the United States. Hawaii of course is not known as an unhealthy place. So, the tropics. Warm weather does not mean people die of diseases. That is a poverty phenomenon. Quote #4: pg 155 -- Moore on Schneider I cannot resist mentioning that Steve Schneider was a great advocate of global cooling as a problem in the 1970s, and since that did not sell he now sells global warming. Quote #5: pg 155 (continuation of above) -- Moore contradictions But as far as whether the past is predictive of the new global warming, it is not. Today we are much less dependent on the climate than we were a thousand years ago, or five thousand years ago. Quote #6: pg 164 -- A Question for Moore Ms. RIVERS: How do you correct against times of great expansion in certain parts of the world that are within colder times? I mean, we certainly have the expanse of the Roman Empire, the British Empire, the industrial revolution, all taking place in times that are not necessarily fitting with your model, and they just sort of get dropped out. I mean, that does not get discussed. Mr. MOORE: If you look at the testimony I submitted, I have a chart in there which deals with population growth in various periods, cold periods and warm periods. As you can see, it is on page 8 of the formal testimony that the warmest period, 5000 to 1000 B.C., the population was growing faster than my underlying model would suggest it should have been growing. [Note: Moore's testimony on the above page shows a bar graph credited to "Source: Micheal Kremer (August 1993): Table 1 and the Author. It is labelled "Difference in Percentage Growth Rate of Population from Expected". It reads: 5000BC - 1000BC Warmest Period +5 degrees F +0.050% [pop. growth rate] 500BC - 600AD Cooling Period -0.011% 800AD - 1200 Medieval Warm P. +3 deg. F +0.001% 1300 - 1800 Mini Ice Age -0.034% The model used was stated as "the rate of population growth should be proportional to the size of the population." Moore started with Kremer's estimate of population at 10,000 BC and calculated forwards. The full reference for the Kremer paper is given as Kremer, Micheal [1993]. "Population growth and Technological Change: One Million B.C. to 1990," _The Quarterly Journal of Economics_, 108(3) (August). ] Quote #7, pg. 165 -- Another Question for Moore Ms. RIVERS. Let me ask a different kind of question. Which is, if the equation is simply warmer equals better, why do we not find in today's world, while Hong Kong and Singapore may well be good examples, but if you look at the equatorial portion of the world in its totality, that is where the Third World tends to be grouped. These people tend not to be the most economically advanced or have the highest kind of health status. So why, if the equation is that simple, applied historically why is it not that simple today? Mr. MOORE. Because as I said response to an earlier question, today climate has much smaller effects on human development than it used to have 1000 or 5000 years ago. Quote #8, pg 166 -- Moore on Historical CO2 (and the Earth burning up) Ms. RIVERS. My question is. How can you be so certain that a change in temperature due to CO2 will produce exactly the same sorts of changes, global changes, that a change in temperature does due to the things that created it over the history of our civilization? How can you be so certain that an entirely new phenomenon will produce the same effect? Mr. MOORE. Well, I cannot be certain that the effect will be the same. I am saying this is a piece of evidence that suggests that warmer is better. We have had periods of time, according to archaelogists that have studied ice cores and things like that, where the carbon dioxide was considerably higher than is even projected under the most extreme global warming models. Ms. RIVERS. Is that-- Mr. MOORE. So the Earth has had high carbon dioxide levels, has had much higher temperatures than they currently do, and without any-- Ms. RIVERS. Let me clarify that, because that was something I looked at earlier today. My understanding is that CO2 is over 350 ppm today, and that in the last 8000 years it was no higher than 300. Is that a correct statement? Mr. MOORE. Over the last 8000 years? Yes. I think that is probably roughly right, yes. I would not quarrel with that. Ms. RIVERS. So-- Mr. MOORE. I am talking about several million years ago there were periods of time-- Ms. RIVERS. --when there were no humans. Mr. MOORE. --there were no humans, but there was lots of life around. [Laughter.] Mr. MOORE. And the life was doing very well-- Ms. RIVERS. All of which is no longer extant. Mr. MOORE. --and the Earth did not burn up, as some would have us, under global warming with high levels of carbon dioxide. Ms. RIVERS. Thank you.