Political Quotes

“Let me put that chart back up. Just to review, Europe and the North Africa area, the red indicates the amount of CO2 that they are putting into the air. The blue at the bottom indicates how much they sequester or capture of CO2. And of course all living organisms live on CO2. Our plants collect that as part of their growing. Because our agriculture is so intense and expansive in the United States and our forest lands are so abundant, we capture about the same amount of CO2 as we emit. Unlike the European countries, as you see on the right, the tropics and the southern hemisphere capture more because of the forests and the growth of biological products in that area. We see a great sequestering. But the point needs to be made strongly that that has to be part of the consideration. And it has to be part of our research in the future. How do we increase our ability with technology to capture some of that CO2 just in case it might be causing a greenhouse gas out there. I am chairman of the Subcommittee on Research in the Committee on Science, and all of the scientists in the field on this issue agree that we need more research on global warming because there is so much that we do not know. We are basing so many conclusions on incomplete research. There is a lot of shooting from the hip.”