A $4 drug going for four hundred dollars.

Mr. President, as Senator Franken has pointed out, despite the efforts to mislead and create doubt, the jury is not out on whether climate change is happening and being caused by manmade carbon pollution; the verdict is, in fact, in, and…

It is actually quite a good example, because we have some of the phony science that has attacked the science of climate change, which is actually a pretty good comparison to what the Senator described. Take, for instance, the bogus…

This is founded by the Marshall Institute. There are others of these out there. The other example is the Heartland Institute, another so-called think tank with backers from tobacco and the fossil fuel industries, founded also in 1984. It…

And it is not enough that they have a stable of paid- for scientists to create doubt, to create phony science that raises the level of doubt; they also go out of their way to attack legitimate scientists. You would not think this would…

Yes, Climategate-gate. In fact, the real scandal here wasn't what the scientists did; the real scandal was the phony attack on the scientists.

And it provoked considerable review afterward because of the alarmist claims that were made in this phony attack on the climate science. A number of pretty respectable organizations took a look at this. One was the university itself, and…

That is why we go on to the National Science Foundation, which found no direct evidence of research misconduct and therefore said, ``We are closing this investigation with no further action.'' Parliament looked into it as well, because the…

The challenge of climate change being extremely real, one of the things that is so frustrating about this campaign of phony, manufactured doubt is that in real life we are seeing the predictions of climate science come true around us…

The bark beetle relates to climate change because what was keeping those trees free from the bark beetle was cold winters that killed off the bark beetle larvae. As temperatures have warmed, the larvae lived through the winters, and they…

We've heard from the medical society that pediatricians are feeling a particular pinch, and one particular Rhode Island institution that we are very proud of is Women and Infants Hospital.

We had similar testimony in the Senate Intelligence Committee. The witness who testified before us released his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee and very much the same conclusion: We judge that global climate change will…

If the Senator doesn't mind, if I change elements from fire to water since I represent an ocean State, another place where climate change is creating dangerous consequences is in our oceans. Let me cite a few reports that have come out…

Not 100 percent, 100-fold.

Mr. President, the statement my colleague has made is truthful and important, but there is absolutely more to this story even than that. At another time I will discuss at greater length the oceans dimension to what is happening to our…

I thank my colleague. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Tester). The Senator from Rhode Island.

We had over 30. The number is still climbing retroactively--but more than 30 Democratic Senators.

I thank Senator Sanders. Senator Cardin has arrived so I will hand off to him in a moment. But to the Senator's point about the imbalance between support for the fossil fuel energy industry and the renewable energy industry; the first…