John Warner

There is a perception that the Senate is not doing much on climate change. This hearing dispels that by the opening statements.

We do not have a clean energy policy in the United States or ever a renewable energy policy.

We support doubling energy research and development on a series of mini-Manhattan Projects.

We support offshore natural gas exploration. It is low carbon.

All 40 Republican Senators have endorsed No. 1, building 100 nuclear plants in the next 20 years.

I am convinced enough that I think we ought to buy some insurance, and we ought to do something about it.

If we are smart, we will put a price on carbon.

I just--I'm so pleased--I just hope that you, personally, can work in support of a good bill.

Historically, this country has always helped the others. Our forces have marched forth from our shores hundreds of times since 1776, never to take a square foot of anybody else's land, simply in the cause of freedom and in the cause of…

Certainly say it's dead-on.

And it's right in the law. It is in the 2008 authorization.

Mr. Chairman, that was a statute that Senator Clinton and I put in. It's requiring the Quadrennial Review to specifically project the future.

Severity of the drought in that whole part of Africa has precipitated so much of this instability, certainly Somalia's.

There's no silver bullet to solve these challenges of economic security, energy security, and national security.

This legislation is imperative. Absolutely imperative.

I think it's essential that part of this climate change legislation--energy--slash energy--contain provisions on moving America ahead with nuclear energy.

We've got to start, we've got to jump out front, and we've got to lead.

I just think that this is the time that Congress has got to forcefully lead.

The President, I think, has done a very credible job in showing leadership on this issue

It will take, as Senator Warner pointed out, the industrialized nations to demonstrate leadership and a willingness to change.

We also feel very strongly that there is a need for a national strategy to help guide the nation through these very difficult tradeoffs and choices

The consequences of climate change, the global consequences, are likely to entail some very hard choices for the United States

New climate conditions, new geographic realities, changes in economic and commercial circumstances, and pressures of migrating populations, all will test old alliances.

We must anticipate new and revised missions for our military forces, and factor those into our calculations of the consequences of climate change for America's national security.

These challenges are not insurmountable, but they will be expensive, as Senator Warner has suggested, to address.