I'm not a climate change denier. I'm just not an alarmist, we'll adapt.

There is no climate emergency. Climate science should be less political, while climate policy should be more scientific.

I think that would be like very helpful.

Do you think spending $21 trillion is going to bend that curve down?

There is no climate emergency. Climate science should be less political, while climate policy should be more scientific.

I appreciate your testimony in terms of what I would call the corruption of science.

I'm not a climate change denier. I'm just not an alarmist, we'll adapt.

That is a concerning trend.

At some level, like the numbers do matter, right.

I understand things through like reading them as opposed to the briefings.

So if we are worried about a near-term deterrence crisis, right, if we think is the sort of window of maximum danger in the 2020s, and we don't know, admittedly, we don't know what lurks in the mind and heart of Xi Jinping.

There is at least one country that wants it to fail, yeah.

This is a direct result of January 20, 2021, when President Biden announced that there will be open borders to the world.

I am not sure how many employees there are in the Department of the Interior, but I suspect they should be able to find someone that would attend a hearing, especially an important hearing like this.

Shouldn't they be enforcing this if you can't?

To take the border and open it up--I would argue absolutely for political purposes--is a travesty.

Because you are not saying what Secretary Mayorkas said, that yes, we have control of the southern border...

These places were meant to be enjoyed by all--not turned into temporary housing as a result of a complicated immigration issue thousands of miles away.