Bill Nelson

Did your committee discuss an Atlas or a Delta on the EELVs?

I think it is important that the White House and OMB hear what you just said.

It is our view that that is very important to add that to the Fiscal Year 2011 budget.

I hope that the President and the Congress will give the Administrator exactly what you said, the flexibility so that he could utilize that workforce in different places with different missions so as to minimize the economic devastation.

How is he going to keep this extraordinarily talented workforce operating?

From your lips to the President's ears.

We believe that is true. We, of course, assume good management of that additional money.

Well, that would be then more like Option 5C, flexible path Shuttle derived?

Joe Garcia has had an exemplary record.

And NASA's going to have a role in the National Climate Service?

When can we expect to see some of those plans--for example, on sea-level rise--of the economic and the physical impacts?

We need the data. Now, we've got a satellite, sitting on the ground, named Discover.

I speak on his behalf. I don't know if he has actually officially resigned.

Most of the cost is borne by the American taxpayer, wherever that taxpayer happens to live, because clearly we've seen, in the case of Hurricane Katrina, almost half of the economic loss of that hurricane was borne by the Federal…

A decade ago, European insurance companies were getting more interested in the effects upon their economic activities more so than were American insurance companies.

I think this has tremendous impact on what we want to do in the future, as we think about what sort of mitigating steps we're going to take.

What is the relationship, if any, between climate change and hurricanes?

To what degree do the insurance companies and reinsurance companies use the public model to determine loss and therefore to determine what the premiums are?

Earlier, Dr. Spinrad, you were talking about the importance of measuring the winds at the surface of the ocean as a means of trying to predict the direction and intensity of hurricanes.

I recall a huge part of economic loss that we've gotten better at preventing is by having FEMA ready...

It seems to me that one of the--one of the real values of the public model, where emphasis really ought to be placed is on what the public values are, here.

Statistically, yes, sir.

We've had La Nina, the cold Pacific waters. Your bulletin, dated just a week or so ago, says, that El Nino is arriving.

Does Florida have a public model today?

With the amount that they're having to pay for homeowners insurance now if you're in a coastal area, you would think that people would be asking about those things when they buy a house.