Change the House Oversight subcommittee on the environment held its fifth hearing on Climate Change. Everybody sits together we will get started the subcommittee will come to order without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time so to discuss Climate Change on the future Economic Impact i will defer the Opening Statement for myself and when we spoke earlier i mentioned the fact we would hopefully to do a hearing we have time for Opening Statements but what i would like to do is to give each of you the opportunity to do so. Let me introduce the four of you have all freight oh gomez from the Accountability Office senior director for environmental risk the institute for Economic Freedom doctor greenstone Milton Friedman and the honorable Stephen Benjamin mayor from south carolina. So you are now recognized to give an oral presentation of your testimony for five minutes. I am pleased to be here today how to limit the federal government fiscal exposure by reducing
Everybody sits together we will get started the subcommittee will come to order without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time so to discuss Climate Change on the future Economic Impact i will defer the Opening Statement for myself and when we spoke earlier i mentioned the fact we would hopefully to do a hearing we have time for Opening Statements but what i would like to do is to give each of you the opportunity to do so. Let me introduce the four of you have all freight oh gomez from the Accountability Office senior director for environmental risk the institute for Economic Freedom doctor greenstone Milton Friedman and the honorable Stephen Benjamin mayor from south carolina. So you are now recognized to give an oral presentation of your testimony for five minutes. I am pleased to be here today how to limit the federal government fiscal exposure by reducing risk this is an area on our high risk list since 2013 recent disaster has shown the need for planning
Construction site about an hour later. Since then, police and fire have launched multiple drones to see what the suspect has been doing while on the building. Nay are able to see what he has access to in terms of material and equipment. We stopped flying sky 7 at the request of police. It appeared to be agitating the suspect. A very fluid situation out here. One point the man was throwing gasoline cans and tools off the roof. This neighborhood used to be really nice. So its kind of disturbing to see yeah. Very worrisome. The building under construction is on warm springs boulevard near brown. This is a few blocks from the bart station. Roads in the area remain blocked off and the traffic is backed up to mission boulevard. We just learned from the Police Department that the suspect has been lighting some rags op fire. That just happened moments ago. The Fire Department has been in position to knock it out with water. They of course want to prevent that building from going up flames. Wel
We take you to capitol hill for a House Oversight hearing on the Economic Impact of Climate Change under way. There are several reasons the on as a consequence it undermines the american people. Let me list. One, in 2018, the Trump Administration instituted a smaller social cost of carbon of 1 to 7 compared to 50. Its based on two faulty assumptions. First, it uses inappropriately high discount rates that are not supported by economic theory or Financial Markets. Second, it fails to account for damages that occur outside the United States. This failure discourages other countries who in total produce about 90 of total co2 emissions from undertaking emissions cuts that would benefit u. S. Citizens. The United States special role in global democracy can produce demonstrable benefits for u. S. Citizens, and we are failing here. The absence of meaningful progress at the recent madrid climate talks is evidence of what happens when we retreat. Number two, the social cost of carbon is no long
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