General Jumper, an article in the Wall Street Journal on February 12, 2003 reported the Air Force will pay the Boeing Company and Lockheed Martin Corporation $538 million to keep both companies in the rocket-launch business because of the…

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I thank you for the work you've done on it.

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…

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----