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

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.

Now, we particularly--it is just coincidental, this is the 44th anniversary of Earth Day.

We have been facing budget cuts at NASA, which means that we may not be able to continue to get some of these satellites.

But you wouldn't say that over the last couple of decades, would you? Would not the fact of sea level rise be some part of the calculation of what the insurance premium was going to be?

I hope that we can continue to keep this discussion going so that we can come to some reasonable conclusions of what we need to continue to do before it is too late.

And so the temperature of the Earth rises.

I think you have summed it up right there.

Can you think of--and I will get to some of the other panelists.

The position of a reinsurance company is to insure and spread the risk of catastrophe.

We do need state, Federal partners to participate.