"You can put a band-aid on it here and there, and you try to put together policies that deal with the band-aid, but you have to step back and look at the larger kind of climate cancer that is out there and say, what can we do to reduce the longer-term impacts that are going to be profound?"
"Do you want to be remembered as a Herbert Hoover, who sat by and did nothing in the face of obvious calamity, or as an Abraham Lincoln, who took every measure to save the Union?"
"climate change is increasing the risk to all parts of the country."
"There is a difference between just warming the average temperature and changing the climate..."
"And by the way, this chart looks exactly like the spike in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and the rising temperatures on the planet since the dawn of the industrial age."
"BLM supports the authorization stewardship contracting and the expansion of Good Neighbor authority in this legislation."
"I think you are just trying to be reflective of what is happening in explaining the bark beetle and why it is now reproducing not once a year but twice a year, why the change in temperatures are causi..."
"Ignoring carbon pollution and focusing solely on fuels treatment to address the epidemic of bark beetles, the epidemic of drought, the epidemic of wildfires is like rearranging deck chairs on the Tita..."
"The bottom line is that the climate is changing just as the climate scientists have predicted for decades."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, very much."
"The problem we have impacting our lands across this county is climate change."