For Florida, I am not a pessimist, but I am a realist, in the sense that we should mitigate what we can.

We hope that our Federal leadership continues to provide resources to Federal agencies for climate science, clean energy and transportation programs, and local assistance.

We feel that the study should be fully funded by Congressional appropriators.

Everything that our witnesses suggested will not only help us address climate change but will help to preserve and strengthen our economy, which is the goal that I think we all share, Democrats and Republicans, and what is ought to be…

I have seen it in Washington. I have seen it here in the state of Florida Government.

If we stop collecting data, that is truly putting your head in the sand.

I mentioned at the outset the attempts to try to cut the budgets of anything that measures climate change.

There were four witnesses by the majority, and all of them were denying that the climate was changed.

We have talked a lot about what we can do to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

Thank you, Congressman.

And the big difference between the Netherlands and Florida is that we sit on top of a honeycomb of all kinds of materials that are decayed from seashells and critters over millions of years.

We had an identical hearing 3 years ago in what was then ground zero in Miami Beach.