Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. Okay, first Budget Hearing in the energy committee, so nice to get started. This morning we will consider the president s budget request for the u. S. For us service for fy 2021. Chief christiansen, its good to welcome you back to the committee. Thank you for being here. We say around here that the president s budget request is just that, it is a request. It does start the annual budget process. It gives us here in congress the opportunity to learn about the administrations priorities and how it would carry them out. But ultimately its up to us to determine what programs to fund and what levels. Although this years budget request is far from pur infect, i agree that the priority must be on wild land Fire Management and improving the health of our forests. Im encouraged that the administration is proposing to invest significantly in harshazardous fuel reduction and other activities. We know they pay dividends in reducing the risk
Visionary. Not interplanetary flights maybe just decades away. But what will they be like and are we ready to embrace interstellar a well i asked. Researcher professor. Jimbo welcome to the show its great to have you with us so jim Scientists Say that they sun will expand into red giant and eventually destroy last on earth how much time do we have. Well so if thats actually true and but i wouldnt worry about it its going to take at least maybe 5000000000 years or so the sun is a typical star there are hundreds of millions of stars like that in our own galaxy and so astronomers can monitor the life cycle of stars like our sun and we know the sun is about 4 and a half 1000000000 years old and it stars like the sun last around 9 or 10000000000 years so dont lose any sleep over it but its true that some day the earth will be destroyed by our own star well look at the world well live in nj and i mean the growing number of conflicts on the Climate Change is recognized as another existential
Technology medicine communication transportation just in the last few 100 years and i think that you know thats whats going to help us survive as a species thats whats going to help us learn to live in a Sustainable Way on this very precious and rare planet that we live in to maintain the environment that is conducive for for a good quality of life so so im an optimist i believe in science and technology and and that the Scientific Method can make our lives better and it has and will continue to do so as we go into the future you know im sure you know this asked a physicist and just marching rees i was speaking to him recently and he told me that there was no plan b. For us. Do you think there were east or there is not. Well i mean right now thats true thats absolutely true but we we are made for this planet for this environment we have evolved to for this life around in this kind of an atmosphere with this temperature and this pressure and this composition so you know earth is our hom
Jimbo welcome to the show its great to have you with us so jim Scientists Say that they sun will expand into red giant and eventually destroy last on earth how much time do we have. Well so if thats actually true and but i wouldnt worry about it its going to take at least maybe 5000000000 years or so the sun is a typical star there are hundreds of millions of stars like that in our own galaxy and so astronomers can monitor the life cycle of stars like our sun and we know the sun is about 4 and a half 1000000000 years old and it stars like the sun last around 9 or 10000000000 years so dont lose any sleep over it but its true that some day the earth will be destroyed by our own star well look at the world well live in nj and i mean the growing number of conflicts on the Climate Change is recognised as another existential threat were facing what makes you think that well if there arrived for even another 1000 years before you have billions thats a great question i mean fundamentally im an
Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. Okay, first Budget Hearing in the energy committee, so nice to get started. This morning we will consider the president s budget request for the u. S. For us service for fy 2021. Chief christiansen, its good to welcome you back to the committee. Thank you for being here. We say around here that the president s budget request is just that, it is a request. It does start the annual budget process. It gives us here in congress the opportunity to learn about the administrations priorities and how it would carry them out. But ultimately its up to us to determine what programs to fund and what levels. Although this years budget request is far from pur infect, i agree that the priority must be on wild land Fire Management and improving the health of our forests. Im encouraged that the administration is proposing to invest significantly in harshazardous fuel reduction and other activities. We know they pay dividends in reducing the risk