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
Millions of American Youth is upon us. May our appreciation as a nation of the value of education among those who are our future be incentive enough to guarantee its importance in our Public Policy consideration. May all that is done within the peoples house this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. The gentleman from connecticut. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, i demand a vote on the speakers approval of the journal. The speaker the question is on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The gentleman from connecticut. Mr. Courtney thank you, mr. Speaker, i request the yeas and nays. The speaker pro tempore the yeas and nays are requested the speaker the yeas and nays are
And across the administration we have been working very, very hard to get as much scientific we can publicly usablele and into a format for folks who need that. The National Climate assessment is a great example of that kind tool. Its also a great example of the actionable Climate Science that president obama talked about climatelaunched the action plan last summer. Since the president announced greatan we have made progress on a variety of fronts and im really happy today to pleasure of introducing somebody who has really been driving so much of that thatss, and dr. Sullivan, the undersecretary of commerce for ocean and aminutere and thed straighter of noaa. Dr. Sullivan is responsible for toding our nations efforts conserve and manage coastal and marine resources, supporting wise management of natural resources, and helping us understand and predict and prepare our communities for changes in our climate, our and our our oceans coasts. Dr. Sullivan has a track record a Fearless Leader
Signaling the need for urgent action so that we can combat the s we face inrisk this country. President obama has long recognized the urgency of this challenge. , in a speech at Georgetown University on a sweltering hot day, the president launched his Climate Action land. Cutting Carbon Pollution in, preparing our communities for changes in climate that are already ongoing and leading International Efforts to address the challenge. One year later, a lot has happened in executing on the commitments made in the Climate Action plan. The president has directed the Environmental Protection agency and the department of transportation to develop fuel economy standards for heavyduty vehicles. The department of interior has announced its permitting of the 50th Renewable Energy project on federal lands during this administration, and the department of energy has issued multiple, new Energy Efficiency standards. The department of agriculture has announced seven new hubs to adapt operations to a c
Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of the opening of the panama canal. As part of booktvs College Series we visited the university of maryland where professor julie greene talk to us about the workers from around the world who built the canal from her book the canal builders. The interview was about half an hour. The canal builders is the name of the book. The author is university of maryland professor julie greene. Professor green wended the idea of building a canal come about . Guest well the idea was an old one in american history, at least in the u. S. , at least from the mid19th century on but its been before that. Europeans have drunk of it for centuries. Host and always through panama . Guest no there was a lot of talk of going through nicaragua or even mexico but for a lot of reasons, the french seized on the idea of panama and then the United States debated long and hard about possibly going to nicaragua. Some earthquakes in the fact that the french had done construction w