Might well offer. We will leave this hearing at this point. You can see the rest of it at cspan. Org. The senate about the gavilan to work on the highest job in the defense department, boeing executive Patrick Shanahan has been nominated for Deputy Defense secretary. Senators will vote at 5 30 eastern on advancing the confirmation process. Also pending is the republican care law replacement, Mitch Oconnell announcing over the weekend to date on the measure will be delayed now senator mccain recovers from surgery. Enter mcconnell may update us at the start of the session live coverage of the senate. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal spirit, today teach our lawmakers to do things your way, embracing your precepts and walking in your path. Lord, remind them that the road less traveled usually leads to life and few find it. As our senators receive guidance from you and follow your leading, replace anxiety with calm, confusion with clarity, and despair with hope. Use these legislatures to t
Us. Lets start in addressing the vision that president roosevelt put forward. Lets start by examining the impact of the Keystone Pipeline on atmospheric, Carbon Dioxide pollutions and Global Warming. In this chart, we see going back 800,000 years that the Carbon Dioxide level has gone up and down. In recent years, been quite steady until the start of the industrial revolution. And then has soared, soared above levels it has been at for hundreds of thousands of years. And in this second chart, we see that there is absolutely no question that heat, put here in blue, correlates to the Carbon Dioxide level in red. Carbon dioxide level goes up and down. The heat of the planet goes up and down. By many estimates, to contain Global Warming to 2 degrees celsius, humans can burn only about an additional 500 gigatons of fossil carbon. That is the fossil budget we have to work with to avoid catastrophic Global Warming. But currently the worlds top 200 fossil fuel companies have identified 2,800 g
They produce about 100,000 barrels of oil per day. This is disconcerting for two reasons. One its a sort of business that was as we are supposed to be deterring and two it provides for russian control over significant European Energy supplies. Mr. Friedman is not currently subject to u. S. Sanctions despite his close ties with the kremlin. Do you know whether he might be a potential target for sanctions . Thank you for that. Im going to give back to on some the details but just to make absolutely clear that u. S. And european sanctions have targeted russian public and government assets and entities. Mr. Friedman runs one of the few remaining private companies in russia and as such has had his own strong views as a private citizen about appropriate russian european relations but let me get back to you on how we have evaluated that particular deal. But it is not a russian government deal. It does not deepen russian governments ties into europeans dependence on the russian government. Tha
Resource, our forests. But Carbon Pollution is not just an attack on our forests, its also an attack on our farming. Indeed, drought across the u. S. Is a huge and growing throat t to ago cull. In the state of organizer, we e had three of the worst droughts in the klamath basin. 2001, then the worstever drought of 2010, and then the worstever drought of 2013, and now were looking at the possibly of the worse of any drought in 2014. Hopefully well have a lot of precipitation and a lot of snow in the coming weeks and that wont be the case. But if you were looking right now just at the snowpack, it is possibly well have the fourth worstever in a 14year period. This is devastating to our rural farming economy. Absolutely devastating. And so lets take a look at the impact of coming from smaller snowpacks. Snowpacks are a significant piece of this puzzle. And if we were to take and look at the Pacific Northwest and we were to basically draw a circle about like this, what you see are these zo
Geothermal, biofuels, the way they are doing now in europe and even in countries like china and india, then 25 years from now, tom and kay will know that a sustainable lifestyle is possible and their children can look forward to a much safer and more secure second half of the 20th century. From kim marion of westminster, massachusetts, i expect to see more Severe Weather patterns, colder colds, warmer warms, drier days, wetter floods, bigger storms, higher which winds, more dust, more mud, loss of marginal growth plant and animal life. I have many, many more letters. As i said, i received more than 5,000 letters from people in massachusetts and across the country. I wish i could read every one of them. I dont kid myself. We are up against an army of lobbyists, and we will not win all the fights ahead. But here in the United States senate we have leaders who will fight as hard as we can to protect our environmental future. The senator from rhode island, senator whitehouse, has shown ded