"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?"
"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..."
"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."
"I want to thank Congressman Bishop for holding this hearing today to consider legislation to combat wildfires."
"If you think storms and drought conditions and catastrophic wildfires are just random freak events, then you are in deep, deep denial."
"My bill also recognizes our constrained fiscal environment and gives the federal agencies additional authorities they desire to stretch the federal dollars further."
"I have suggested that we rename it Denier Island, where those who question the science behind global warming can spend the summer cooling off."
"If we are serious about reducing catastrophic wildfire, we first must admit that there is a link between climate change and wildfire."
"that is an ironic comment coming from a gentleman who lives in a landlocked desert State voting in this Committee just 2 days ago to authorize drilling for oil and gas in the ocean off the coastline o..."