Greg Ganske: “headlines in USA Today scream: ``Global Warming Is Evident Now.'' U.S. News and World Report's cover story proclaims…”

“headlines in USA Today scream: ``Global Warming Is Evident Now.'' U.S. News and World Report's cover story proclaims: ``Scary Weather: Scientists Issue a Startling Forecast of Global Climate Change,'' and they feature a picture of the Earth surrounded by stormy weather. On television, we see chunks of ice the size of Connecticut breaking off of the Antarctic ice shelf and melting. The New York Times shows us the North Pole as a lake. Glaciers are melting and the snows of Kilimanjaro will soon become a memory. Mr. Speaker, mosquitoes are living at higher altitudes than they have ever been seen before because it is warmer. Tropical bugs are moving north along with the diseases they carry. And if Iowa, my home State, becomes tropical, will dengue fever or malaria become a problem? The oceans are warmer and coral reefs are dying. Will we see the oceans rise from one to three feet and flood the 70 percent of the United States population that lives within 50 miles of the ocean? Will global warming cause extreme weather, with droughts in some areas and floods in others? Will heat waves hit cities like Chicago and cause hundreds of deaths? Will Iowa's farmers find that rainfall comes in monsoons and that growing zones are pushed hundreds of miles north? Will tropical agricultural pests that we have never seen before become common in Iowa? What will global warming do to the world's food supply? Will we see widespread famine?”