Of Climate Change and Natural Disaster preparedness efforts. The House Oversight and reform subcommito environment heard from witnesses including james wit and Atmospheric Science professors. This portion is an hour and 10 minutes. Subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This subcommittee is convening our third in the series of Climate Change hearings, focusing on recovery, resiliency and readiness with Natural Disasters. I recognize myself for 5 minutes to give an Opening Statement. Y as i mentioned, this hear suggest the third in a series of hold to congress. After examining the history of the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change and the Public Health effects of Climate Change in our first two hearings, the today the subcommittee turns to the impact of claimant change on Natural Disasterrers. First, were going to illustrate how Natural Disasters are made both more intense and more frequent, due to
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Driving the german capital to consider and on point that all solution to. This is the w. Business im joined now on in berlin welcome thousands of delegates from around the world are in the german city of bonn racing to resolve outstanding issues in implementing the Paris Climate Accord nearly 200 countries signed the agreement back in 2015 committing to limit the centurys global average temperature increase so no road to no more than 2 degrees celsius above preindustrial levels will have more on the issues in just a moment but 1st heres a look at how countries compare in terms of c o 2 emissions what 28 percent of global emissions china is the biggest offender the United States at 16 per cent comes in at number 2 germany with just over 2 percent comes in 6th place. But its a very different story when you look at per capita emissions and that measure its qatar that comes out way on top the average person there emits over 30 tons of c o 2 each year thats twice as much as the average pers
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Get stuck or slam shut, hitting her legs. It comes down fast. And it comes down hard. And so its like a hard hit. And sometimes it bruises. Reporter when she saw the new prototype fare gate monday at the Richmond Bart station, she was too scared to go through. Bart is testing out the doublewing gates as a Pilot Program to stop fare cheats from jumping over. She worries that wheelchair users, children or short riders, the wings might shut at head level. Im terrified about getting stuck here. Sometimes its a threesecond window. If i dont get through in three seconds, i get hit on the head. Reporter a bart spokesperson told us the top barriers come down with less force than the bottom and are collected by a pole so they would not close on a head. One rider says the upper wings hit her wheelchair rest monday. They came down on my headrest, the upper gate. A bart spokesman said thisprototo concerns, we have positioned bart staff at the fare gates to show people how it works and hoanswer que