I believe that President McAleese's remarks will be of interest to all of us who care about these issues, and I ask unanimous consent that it be printed in the Record.

I asked Larry Tribe, perhaps our Nation's most renowned constitutional scholar, to describe the upcoming vote to begin, just to begin, an impeachment inquiry; and his answer, my colleagues, captures everything that I want to say today.

I ask unanimous consent to proceed for an additional 2 minutes.

I ask unanimous consent to proceed for an additional 3 minutes.

By not making policy choices today, by sticking to a wait and see approach, by allowing these gases to continue to build in the atmosphere, this generation may be committing all of us to severe economic and environmental disruption.

the build up of greenhouse gases which threaten to warm the Earth to unprecedented levels.

This is not a matter of Chicken Little telling us the sky is falling. The scientific evidence is telling us we have a problem, a serious problem.

We don't have all the perfect scientific evidence. There may be gaps here and there.