Cory Booker: “So I guess my question is--first of all, there is no denying what is happening. The bait we often get pulled into, by…”

“So I guess my question is--first of all, there is no denying what is happening. The bait we often get pulled into, by using a ridiculous paucity of a study, as compared to the grand total of the other studies, is what is causing this. Is it manmade or is this some regular fluctuation? But let us hold that in abeyance for a second, that question, and just deal with what we talked earlier about--the military that deals with the fierce urgency of now. Even not dealing with the question of how this issue is created, we should be doing things right now to deal with the consequences--investments in resiliency and adaptability along our coasts. There is so much we should be compromising on both sides of the aisle. If they want to argue about what is causing it, that is an argument we should take, and I believe we will win, but absent that, even if you say these trends are happening, now what are we going to do as a country? Nothing or are we going to prepare for that? Isn't there a lot of action we can take even before we get to the argument of whether this was manmade? Because these are trends that are happening and there are things we should be doing about it.”