Claim: Says. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, once said, "Wind is a finite resource and harnessing it would slow the winds down, which would cause the temperature to go up."
Fact-check: Widely shared meme oversimplifies Joe Barton's 2009 comment on wind energy, climate change
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2015-01-15T00:00:00