This country is going to go on doing that.

I came to this effort to try and work on climate change through the combined work in this committee and in our committee, Senator Inhofe, of the Armed Services Committee.

It adds additional roles and missions to our armed forces which today are valiantly fighting in two wars.

As Senator Warner so ably pointed out, the United States and our young men and women into conflicts over water and other critical resource shortages.

I think that is a solid precedent for arguing today to return, as you have said Senator Alexander, to a greater reliance on nuclear energy to resolve the climate change dilemmas.

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

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

I think the record should show that we recognize the leadership being given by the President of the United States now on this issue.

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

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

the severity of those missions, the complexity, and the stress on the Armed Forces is directly correlated to how much we can achieve or not achieve, now and tomorrow, by way of reducing greenhouse gases and the cause for this instability…

I would support it wholeheartedly, because they're stretched, their families are stretched, and they have done valiantly under the concept of the All-Volunteer Force.