Bill Nelson

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.

Does the insurance industry think as a result of climate change that we are going to see greater frequency and more ferocity of storms as a result of the rising temperature?

We do need state, Federal partners to participate.

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

What he has stated, in fact, has occurred. And so those who deny climate change and sea level rise, here is the proof right here.

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.

Would you or someone else knit together how the addressing of the problems of flooding with the infrastructure projects, how can that be helped knit together with the billions of dollars that we are spending in the restoration of the…

And so are you all going to have to spend all kinds of money to help protect Las Olas?

If we fail to act we will be faced with the astronomical cost to recover from our inaction...

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

So these policies that look only one to three years in the future, is that the reason that the insurance industry really hasn't come to the table as a partner in this climate change concern?

From 1993 to 2015, what is the NASA satellite measurement of total increase?

And the cost of this must be enormous.

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?

We ought to be listening to the 99 percent of scientific evidence.

What happens in the discussion of climate change is the fact that the media, wanting to be fair and balanced, present it as if it is 50-50.

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

And you already have this in the works in anticipation of this fall.

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

No beaches, no bucks

I want you to know that I come to the table not only as someone who has seen Florida grow over the years as a fifth generation Floridian.

It is my pleasure to appear before you today to discuss the state of science on climate change

And during that time in the 1990s, I could not get insurance companies to pay attention--American insurance companies to pay attention--to climate change and sea level rise.

There can be no denying that climate is changing and that we are seeing the effects right now.