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’

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:

Greene was quoted as saying:

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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."

Description: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stated that people in the Ice Ages didn’t pay a bunch of taxes to melt the ice. She used this argument to explain why she doesn’t believe in anthropogenic climate change during Tim Pool’s live YouTube show on January 5, 2022.

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Rating Explanation: The rating is based on the verbatim remark made by Marjorie Taylor Greene during a livestream, where she argued against the concept of climate change.

“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.”

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:

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.”