‘Decoding the Language of Climate’ presents 10 speakers over two nights
U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
KINGSTON, R.I. – March 12, 2021 – The evidence of global climate change is all around us in the shrinking glaciers and melting polar ice, the dramatic shifting of plant and animal ranges, the warming of oceans and the growing number of extreme weather events. The vast majority of climate scientists agree that warming trends are extremely likely due to human activities, and that global temperatures will continue to rise for decades due to greenhouse gases.
So, what can we do? How do we process all this information? How do we act?
a lot of ads. and maybe in 2020. dr. damle, if you got the 30 seconds on the senate elevator in the capitol going up three floors with a senator, you just had that one moment to talk to a senator, a republican senator about this, what would you tell that senator? well, number one is that you do need to get a cbo score. you cannot pass any bill without a cbo score. but number two is this is irresponsible. it really affects our patients. these are patients lives that are at stake. these patients have chronic conditions. they can get cancer and not be properly covered. they can go bankrupt. what we need to do is to improve the affordable care act so that there are things that can be better handled. the market can be better handled. coverage can be improved. but not tough the ahca. we have to take a break here. dr. nitin damle, john heilemann, charlie sykes, thank you all for joining us on this important
about this, what would you tell that senator? well, number one is that you do need to get a cbo score. you cannot pass any bill without a cbo score. but number two is this is irresponsible. it really affects our patients. these are patients lives that are at stake. these patients have chronic conditions. they can get cancer and not be properly covered. they can go bankrupt. what we need to do is to improve the affordable care act so that there are things that can be better handled. the market can be better handled. coverage can be improved. but not through the ahca. we have to take a break here. dr. nitin damle, john heilemann, charlie sykes, thank you all for joining us on this important night. i really appreciate it. thanks, lawrence. coming up, democrats now hope that they can kill this bill in the senate. democratic senator chris van holland will join me and tell me what s going to happen in the senate. and president trump s
casting all that to the wind, it s so fundamentally at odds with what paul ryan has stood for such a long time. and there is no analogy that i know of where the members of the house have gone up to the white house and celebrated a bill for just passing it through the lower chamber. but there is i think a parallel here. and i m thinking about may of 2003 when george w. bush stood on that aircraft carrier in front of that sign that said mission accomplished in iraq. and he rued that day for years thereafter as the iraq war turned into the disaster it turned into, declaring victory early on something really big like the iraq war or repealing the affordable care act is a very, very dangerous thing to do politically. those pictures from today will be in a lot of ads in 2018. a lot of ads. and maybe in 2020. dr. damle, if you got the 30 seconds on the senate elevator in the capitol going up three floors with a senator, you just had that one moment to talk to a senator, a republican sen