Middle of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. My job was to stand off the house floor and ask congressman what they thought of the days news. So i quit my job and moved to cambodia. I spent a year and a half there reporting on events there, and it was an amazing experience. The country was emerges from 30 years of civil war, from a genocide in which one in four people dies of murder, starvation and disease. What really struck me when i was there, the human resilience. D. C. , theres a lot of data there and information bush to be seeing peoples lives and how they bounce back, it started to change the way i looked at journalism and what i wanted do. And when i came back, i wanted to write more about the theme of human resilience and i found that in the United States, some of the most exciting stories of human resilience are being unleashed by technology. Thats what my book is about engineering. My presentation is less data driven than some of the stuff. What i tried to do is put some of trends
Also hear from an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council and head of nuclear institute. Hearing expected to start in just a moment. Chairman is about to sit down. We should see the gavel come down here in a moment. Live coverage on c span3. Good morning and welcome to our hearing legislative proposal to advanced the use of Nuclear Energy. I want to thank all of our witnesses that advance and ill be introducing each of you before your fiveminute opening statement, but we want to thank marvin fratel for the great job he did at the Nuclear Energy institute and i think its plan to go on and look at other challenges at the end of this year, so were delighted hes here. He served as neis president chief executive order since 2009 and has long and distinguished year advocating for the Nuclear Industry. Nuclear energy is an integral part of our industry policy. The Current Fleet roughly 100 operating Nuclear Power plants safely and reliably generates about 20 of our nations electri
I also want to address my concerns about the administrations 3 billion pledge to the Green Climate fund. The American Public does not support paying their hardearned taxpayer dollars into a slush fund that spends billions of International Climate change programs in developing nations to address the impacts of extreme weather. The need for spending our natural disasters is down historically while other International Priorities have increased. According to the 2014 annual Global Climate and catastrophe report released, Global Natural disasters in 2014 combined to cause economic losses of 132 billion. 37 below the tenyear average of 211 billion. With immediate global priorities such as the upheaval in the middle east and syria and iraq to a resurgent russia in Eastern Europe and abroad we should be focusing our resources on countering global terrorist threats with humanitarian assistance, democracy promotion and Embassy Security measures. The only reason i can see the administration wants
Negotiations is that each country will have to decide based on its own circumstances, its own capabilities, hopefully with as much salutary pressure as possible to do your best but that each country was going to have to make the decision about exactly what to do and how to do it. By the way, that goes for developed countries as well as developing. But even more important for developing countries who were trying to reassure that they can take on the fight for Climate Change without imperilling their own priorities for development, growth and eradication of poverty. So that flexibility is absolutely essential and is really in some sense the core of our approach. Thank you very much, senator kaine. Senator coons. Thank you mr. Stern, for your testimony, leadership, for your hard work and creativity in pursuing such an important global goal. Let me start in some ways where i think senator kaine was pursuing a conversation about some limitations of previous agreements and how this hopedfor
Indicated that we are real into the 80s with probably the u. S. Amount i already told you. I dont think this is a huge problem. Senator udall . I yield my time to senator boxer. And mr. Chairman, here we are again. We have two different venues where we can argue about climate. [ laughter ] and always very pleasant. Were friends. But here we go. I continue to be perplexed by those who wish to obstruct action to reduce Carbon Pollution. Some are deniers, and weve been through there before. They say theyre not scientists and i would agree with them. They ought to be listening to the 97 , 98 of scientists who tell us human action and activities is causing too much Carbon Pollution. And some just dont seem to grasp the incredible advantages that we have in moving toward clean energy and im not going to go into it because were not the environment and Public Works Committee and its not about public health, but its so clear that when we do this we also create a tremendous number of jobs that c