Afghanistan is not only the war that never ends and it goes on and on my friends it is now become generational multigenerational were fighting there has been passed down bother to son and mother to daughter here in the United States take the story of Master Sergeant trevor de boer who 1st applied to afghanistan back in 2002 and recently told stars and stripes quote when we started this people asked why i was going and my response was so my sons dont have to fight this war well through no fault of Master Sergeant aboard that mission has clearly failed as his son payton slopes has now is also served in afghanistan even at the very same Forward Operating base that his father served at this never ending war has even outlasted the New York Times special at war a section dedicated to covering it the times of war editor Loren Katzenberg took to twitter to announce that the paper will be ending its at war forum. Nibley commenting that there are fewer and fewer spaces that exist to examine the
Trying to figure out. Did you guys get in trouble . They sent you down at the other end of the table. Everyone is together, but youre down at one end. Listen, were going to get started. The subcommittee hearing will come to order without objection, the chairs authorized to declare recess in the committee to any time. This briefing is an extension of several hearings we have had discussing Climate Change. And on the current Economic Impacts of global warming. Im going to differ in the Opening Statement for myself and i know when we spoke earlier, in the holding area, i mentioned the fact that we would be hopefully trying to do a hearing, in fact, this is a briefing, we do have time for your Opening Statements, so, what i would like to do is to afford each of you the opportunity to do so. So, let me introduce the four of you and then we will move to you, mr. Gomez. We have alfredo gomez, director of National Resources and government accountability, office dave, joness new director for en
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
Health secretary ben carson joining the conversation at the white houses Mental Health summit. Iftrying to figure out everyone is together. Let me double check. We are going to get started. The subcommittee hearing will come to order, without objection, the chair has authorized the committee sometime. This briefing extension of several herrings we have had, discussing Climate Change. We are focusing on the Economic Impacts of global warming. I will defer the Opening Statement to myself. When we spoke earlier in the holding area, i mentioned the fact that we would be trying to do a hearing. This is a briefing. We do have time for your Opening Statements. What i would like to do is afford each of you the opportunity to do so. Let me introduce the four of you and then we will move to you, mr. Gomez. , governmented gomez accountability office. Dave jones, senior director for environmental risk. Dr. Michael green zone, distinguished professor of economics at the university of chicago, and t
You can watch this and other programs online booktv. Org. [inaudible] [inaudible] there are events in the council that we do out of duty. There are events that we do out of interest theres events we do other friendship. This is all three. I have been stealing these ideas for years. So is it says we when they write a book because i say it was my idea. This is one of those brilliant ideas. When you hear harlan talk about the ideas its sort of white and i think about it so just the first paragraph gives you a sense of how many of us engaged too much does not happen to be his weakness. President s, politicians have failed to grasp this truth. For more than halfcentury americans lost every war they started when they were like cabinets rate. They have also failed so some of those words in the beginning that the introduction when you find yourself continuing to read and his vignettes and reflections on his experience and then using them for larger message on the book. I have made a lot of not