The causes of ocean, this causes ocean waters to expand and in addition, mountain glaciers are rapidly retreating which adds water to the oceans. The Sleeping Giant however in the Sea Level Rise occasion has been ice in the main major ice sheets of greenland and ant antarctica. Both ice she is are losing mass. How quickly they melt over the coming decades will determine whether we have an additional one foot of Sea Level Rise or up to four feet and perhaps even more. Another major change in our climate brought by about humaninduced warm something the increase in heavy downpours. This is clearly an area in which recent observations have been born out, have borne out our previous projections. A warm atmosphere would hold more moisture. We measured that and indeed it is happening. We predicted increased in atmosphere of water vapor and more rain comes down in heavy events and now weve seen that happen. Some regions like the northeast and midwest have seen very large increases in the rainf
That measure provides for no offset it according to the joint committee on taxation making the credit permanent would cause 155 billion over ten years. Buy now or certainly members will consider a measure that will expand funding for charter schools. Coverage of the house is always over on cspan. The senate wrapping up yesterday. They will continue consideration of an energy bill that would provide incentives for Energy Efficient manufacturing and also to promote Energy Savings and buildings. The leaders are still trying to hash out an agreement that would get that legislation to a final vote limited dh on the bill is scheduled for 5 30 eastern on monday. Of course the senate is always live on cspan2. 2 00 monday eastern time when they gaveled back end. In about an hour or so we plan to take you west to california for remarks 1 00 p. M. , im sorry. We are planning to take you west to california to remarks by president obama speaking at a walmart in Mountain View california expected to
Conservation, creates millions of jobs right here at home, makes us more Energy Secure and Energy Independent and works with our friends, not our enemies. And i think we can get it done. Ive been around here long enough to know that things arent easy but i refuse to be cynical, i refuse to be, you know, woe is me, the world is coming to an end, which i hear a lot around here. I think theres a lot of positive things going on in our country today. The economy is improving. In north dakota, your state, i think you have zero unemployme unemployment. I think we come in second at about 2 unemployment in louisiana because we are busy working not fighting but working together to produce energy jobs for the country. So i was very proud to support this efficiency bill in committee. I would like, of course, to see some other additional things added to it, but in to move it forward, voted for it, to move this bill forward to the floor. When i became the chair of the committee, i had committed to r
A Global Warming, and as you indicated, now changing over to a Global Climate change, it is not the lower 48 Climate Change. We could dot something unilaterally in the United States while the rest of the world is going to be dependent on fossil fuels for a long, long time . Th are burning a coa a cold plant a week. They are barely keeping up with their demand. Here here in the United States re pro prohibiting thewe a construction of the newhi coal plants it doesnt make sense to penalize when if indeed this is going on it calls for a global reaction. You are seeing what is happening in europe right now. They were the first group of countries to sign on to the kyoto protocols. They were the first half to be able to meet the targets. In the United States we didnt sign on to the protocols but guess what the measures are the lowest theyve been in 20 years. We beat the system. So what can we do while having a manufacturing renaissance brought back to the United States while gaining the leade
Legislation. He said on november 19 of last year, im happy to tell you that i think that was a concern of his talking about another of our colleagues. We got that u. C. s last night unanimous consent. So we moved that pretty quickly, and i want to try to do those things. Where we have agreement, lets move it. Quote i want to try to do those things where we have agreement, lets move it. We have agreement, lets move i, closed quote. Thats all im asking for. Were not going to agree on everything immediately. But we can agree on important things right today, right this hour, right this minute. We do agree on 27 important communitybased clinics in 18 states around the country including two in louisiana, lafayette and lake charles, louisiana, that senator landrieu and i represent. So i want to try i to do those things where we have agreement, lets move it. And that can start right this minute in a productive, positive way with these 27 communitybased clinics around the country. So lets agree