Good morning. Todays open hearing is the fourth in a series the committee is skukting to examine the intersection of Key National Security challenges and intelligence. In our prior hags we explored the rise of authoritiarianism, russian intelligence trade craft and chinas use of technology as a actual of oppression. This morning we will look at Climate Change which is the greatest longterm it National Security threat to the u. S. And affecting every dimension of National Life for decades and possibly centuries. In the unclassified 2019 worldwide threat assessment director of National Intelligence coates submitted this finding to Senate Counterparts on behalf of the the community. Quote Global Environmental and ecoology aldid he grey graduation and Climate Change are likely to fuel competition for resources economic distress and social discontent through 2019 and beyond. Climate hazards such as extreme weather, high temperatures, droughts, floods, wildfires, storms, Sea Level Rise owe s
Test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test. Test test test test. What you would need is definitively need an icebreaker to navigate that piece of geography. What you dont see on this map because it would clutter it is beyond that 100 coverage inside of that blue line, there are areas where you get 60 sea ice coverage, 30, 40, which you would probably also want an icebreaker or definitely need an ice hardened clad ship to navigate. The purple line, on the edges of the map because the arctic is entirely icecovered in the winter and the maximum ice is in march. The minimum is in september. What you see there is you need an icebreaker to navigate any of that in the march time frame. It provides a rough seasonality in the arctic. So how has that changed over the last 50, 40, 30 years, whatever it is . Is it bigger, smaller, the same . What are we looking at . The navy uses a figure of a per decade loss of 3 of maximum ice per year and 13 of minimum ice p
Minutes. [cheering] thank you. Speaker, president peterson, members of the house and senate, attorney general, secretary, treasury, superintendent, inspector marsh, corporation commissioners, chief justice and members of the judiciary tribal leaders, governor brewer and honored guests and all arizonans, it is my honor to stand before you today at the opening of the second regular session of the 56th legislature. Here on land that will always be connected to the awesome key pulse of todays Salt River Maricopa Indian Community and the indian river community. What a year it has been. We have worked together, debated each other, pushed one another, and most importantly, put aside our differences when it mattered most to do whats right for arizona and the people who call it home. Now, i think we can all agree it certainly hasnt been easy, but our constituents didnt send us here to the capital to solve easy problems or take the easy way out. They are relying on us to ensure the economy works
Minutes. [cheering] thank you. Speaker, president peterson, members of the house and senate, attorney general, secretary, treasury, superintendent, inspector marsh, corporation commissioners, chief justice and members of the judiciary tribal leaders, governor brewer and honored guests and all arizonans, it is my honor to stand before you today at the opening of the second regular session of the 56th legislature. Here on land that will always be connected to the awesome key pulse of todays Salt River Maricopa Indian Community and the indian river community. What a year it has been. We have worked together, debated each other, pushed one another, and most importantly, put aside our differences when it mattered most to do whats right for arizona and the people who call it home. Now, i think we can all agree it certainly hasnt been easy, but our constituents didnt send us here to the capital to solve easy problems or take the easy way out. They are relying on us to ensure the economy works
Minutes. [cheering] thank you. Speaker, president peterson, members of the house and senate, attorney general, secretary, treasury, superintendent, inspector marsh, corporation commissioners, chief justice and members of the judiciary tribal leaders, governor brewer and honored guests and all arizonans, it is my honor to stand before you today at the opening of the second regular session of the 56th legislature. Here on land that will always be connected to the awesome key pulse of todays Salt River Maricopa Indian Community and the indian river community. What a year it has been. We have worked together, debated each other, pushed one another, and most importantly, put aside our differences when it mattered most to do whats right for arizona and the people who call it home. Now, i think we can all agree it certainly hasnt been easy, but our constituents didnt send us here to the capital to solve easy problems or take the easy way out. They are relying on us to ensure the economy works