And the cost of this must be enormous.

We can't afford to, with Florida being ground zero.

My take-home impression--when I say ``home,'' I mean here, Earth--is that we inhabit a very beautiful but delicate planet.

We want to make sure that our resources... is focused on cutting-edge science and the technology that will develop from it.

If the sea level rises, what happens to that ability when the rains come and the floods occur and you need to get the water off of the neighborhoods by gravity?

Over the last 50 years--we will hear testimony--sea level rise has been in Florida any place from five to eight inches. It is real. And yet some of our colleagues in the Senate deny it.

So, ergo, does that mean that the cost of insuring against wind damage becomes greater?

I told him that my present to him, my going-away present to Senator Baucus was going to be a surgical mask for him to wear in Beijing.

Are mitigation efforts like improving energy efficiency and reducing our reliance on fossil fuels, is that worthwhile?

if you are not at the table, you are on the menu.

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Now there is a realization of what is going on with the significant number that you enrolled in the exchanges.