On the recordJune 27, 2012
The European Union has implemented an emissions trading regimen as a means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent below 1990 levels. They are not succeeding very much. They are putting in a fairly hard effort to do that, but the greenhouse gas emissions continue to go up. The CO<INF>2</INF> percentage in the atmosphere is now, in the year 2012, about 50 percent higher than it has been at any time in the last 500,000 years and going up, continuing to go up. But we're not going to settle climate change issues tonight. I understand that this amendment will be adopted, but the effort is going to have to eventually go on to deal with our climate change. I yield back the balance of my time.
