Keeps sending us messages. Peril. S we ignore at our it was a cry of frustration. At the Supreme Courts infamous decision haded killed the bipartisan work i had seen on climate for three years read frustration in the fossil fuel industry death threat had tightened around this chamber. Preventing action. Our administration, our Democratic Administration in abandoned Leadership Climate change and would barely even talk about it. Has been a run. Here i am, still at it, seven years on. Some things have changed. Some things have not. Lets start with what has not changed. What has not changed is the scientific certainty about what is happening in our atmosphere and oceans. Scientists have understood burning fossil fuels causes our planet to heat up since the days when Abraham Lincoln was riding around washington in his top hat. This is not new news. Ago, exxonsecades own scientists reported to exxon management there is quote little that atmospheric co2 concentrations were increasing due to f
Patterns, soil moisture, and potentially melting the polar ice caps. There was no legitimate debate over the science when i started in 2012, and there is no legitimate debate over the science today. Indeed the science has only strengthened. And with each passing year, as senator merkley said, we rely less on complicated climate models and on scientific forecasts, and unfortunately more on straightforward real time measurement of the changes. Today we observe with our own eyes what recently was predict predicted, glacial collapse and retreat, Sea Level Rise, arctic warming, and increasingly extreme weather. Another constant since 2012 is the fossil fuel industrys remorseless campaign. A, to block Climate Action and, b, to do this while hiding its hands behind front groups. I have delivered dozens of these speeches about the dozens of climate denial front groups. Indeed weve had whole groups of senators come to the floor to talk about the web of denial that the fossil fuel industry has c
Vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 54, the nays are 37, the nomination is confirmed. The clerk will report the next nomination. The clerk nomination, the judiciary, brian c. Buescher, of nebraska, to be United States district judge for the district of nebraska. The presiding officer the question is on the nomination. A senator i ask for the yeas and nays. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote change the presiding officer are there any senators wishing to change their vote . The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates actions. Mr. Merkley madam president. The presiding officer the senator from north dakota. Mr. Hoeven madam president , i ask unanimous consent that the senate pro
Trauma and colleague mt the n. T. Hello 0. Of the fossil park in Lagos Nigeria and im looking forward to the show this week we celebrate some people who deserve to be celebrated ordinary citizens who through their actions do the a bit to protect the environment so lets take a look. Our young inventor from tanzania shows how Renewable Energy and changed village life for the better. Nigerian activists demonstrates that art and the environment of a good. And in south africa ellens are being moved back into their natural habitat to the benefit of the enviro. Hazy do you know that almost half of all the plastic produced in the world is used just once and then thrown away thats an alarming fact and we need to find Solutions Fast before the world drowns in plush ticks and not only that n. T. Experts say plastic also contributes to Global Warming from the production to their disposal they are responsible for the emission of huge amounts of Greenhouse Gases and that is keeping us from achieving
Was that i show a to change that the home was logically, economically on the subject all right, nor im, ill say thanks a lot for giving us this interview. And i hope you have a great time at the festival. Whether you have it, a lot of different people from different parts of the world. So not only from the square of politics, but also musicians, the Cultural Icons from lots of different places. Were going to be here all day for the rest of the rest of the festival as well in the coming days. Definitely reporting on all of the most interesting events taking place here. Well, definitely from the fact just coming in and the sounds in the background was that there is a great energy that was all changed on important experience, nor on a shake, a set professor political science, a cairo university, one of the wild Youth Festival in the southern washing pouch upstairs. Thank you dawn. Well, that is, im not know how things are looking this sunday for those stories of principal besides had on o