Bill Nelson: “I rise to support the McCain- Lieberman amendment. If anyone does not believe what 99.9 percent of the scientific…”

“I rise to support the McCain- Lieberman amendment. If anyone does not believe what 99.9 percent of the scientific community believes--that global warming is, in fact, a reality--if anyone does not believe that, then they are living in a cave and not recognizing what is happening to our planet. Whenever I think of global warming, my mind's eye suddenly goes back to 1986, looking out the window of our spacecraft back at planet Earth. There on the rim of the Earth, we could see the thin little film which is the atmosphere which sustains all of life. With the naked eye from orbit, you can actually see how we are starting to mess up the planet. Coming across South America, I could see with the color contrast on the face of the Earth below in the Amazon region the destruction of the rainforests. Then I could look to the east at the mouth of the Amazon River, and I could see the result of the destruction of those trees hundreds of miles upriver by the silt that has discolored the Atlantic Ocean for hundreds of miles. And so, too, in different parts of the Earth, we saw this wonderful creation, and it became apparent to me that I needed to be a better steward of what we have on planet Earth.…”