Thank you very much, Ms. Claussen. Thank you for all your hard work on this issue.

I don't think a voluntary program meets the urgency of the situation.

Senator McCain. Ms. Claussen, you have heard me repeat the statement of the National Academy of Sciences ad nauseam. Do you believe that there is sufficient evidence that we should begin to act----

But if DuPont and ALCOA have actually saved money, why wouldn't a CEO or a board of directors sit down and say, 'Hey, we're--this is a way we can actually increase the--our profits and our business'?

The Administration's inaction is hobbling our economy, and it is stealing growth opportunities from U.S. companies.

According to a recent report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), nine of the warmest years have occurred since 1990.

The changes observed over the last several decades are likely mostly due to human activities, but we cannot rule out that some significant part of these changes is also a reflection of natural variability.

Greenhouse gases are accumulating in the Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise.

California has enacted legislation that will regulate tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases.

Senator McCain. Can you divine the reasons why--Ms. Claussen, why, given this overwhelming body of evidence, that there would be a reluctance at least to start beginning to put into place the policies that would reduce the threat of…

The European Union just recently approved an emissions trading system.

the National Academy of Sciences went on to say that greenhouse gases are accumulating in the Earth's atmosphere as the result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and sub-surface ocean temperatures to rise.

The report states there is 'very high confidence,' defined as having more than 95 percent of observed changes which were principally caused by climate change, that climate change is already affecting living systems.

Thank you, Dr. Mahoney. Let me just tell you what bothers me a little bit about the voluntary thing before we close here.

Greenhouse gases are accumulating in the Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise.

A large German insurance company has estimated that global warming could cost $300 billion annually by 2050 in weather damage, pollution, industrial and agricultural losses, and other expenses.

one of the objections to Kyoto, and there are several, is that developing nations are not included;

I’ve never seen anything like that ad, putting pictures of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden next to a picture of a man who left three limbs on the battlefield. It is worse than disgraceful. It is reprehensible.