You will not solve the problem with the current office in the White House.

In order to stabilize the concentration in the atmosphere, which is what everything is really all about, you have got to drop emissions by 80-plus percent.

I mean, I think we need scientists, real scientists, people who are honest, ethical, decent, moral who are basing their decisions on science to come up with some of the solutions.

I think we need to make sure that they are participants.

I think you have to have all of the major emitters involved.

I have a bill in with Congressman Cooper. We put it in yesterday. There were 26 Republicans on the bill and 26 Democrats.

Well, that would be disastrous. We lose our triple A bond rating, according to Moody's, in year 2012.

I mean, we are broke. It seems that the Congress does not know it and no one else knows it, but everybody knows it.

Clearly, it is going to make it more difficult to grow food in those regions that are going to see less rainfall.

I honestly believe that separating the science basis for what you do from the value judgments that enter into a political decision is a healthy way to go.

But I think that there are many people that really do not believe the United Nations is very balanced.

I think, though, frankly, there may be some exceptions, but my sense is most Congressmen do not know what to do either.

I think we have big problems. There is an example, a bright spot right there in this country that the rest of us could learn from.

I think as a nation we are just disregarding some of the fundamentals.

I mean, we would move to paper. Government paper will be junk bond status.

We are broke. And when I listen to some of the witnesses, if it was just a question of us buying another printing press, I think we could fund that right away and get more paper from.

the answer is to dramatically increase research and development so that solar panels become cheaper than fossil fuels sooner rather than later.

I think the failure of this institution is that we are not prepared to do what is necessary for them.