Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman and Members, this amendment tells the Department of Energy to ignore the latest climate change science. Even worse, the amendment denies that carbon pollution is harmful. According to this amendment, the cost of carbon pollution is zero. That is science denial at its worst, and, frankly, it is just simply wrong. Tell homeowners in Arizona or those who live up in Canada, where the wildfires have just raged and who have seen their homes ravaged by drought-stoked wildfires, that there are no costs from climate change. If you are a gardener, like I am, even the backs of seed packets have changed, because what used to be a Tennessee tomato, now we grow it in Ohio. The climate zones are moving north. It is getting warmer. Tell that to the firefighters who have to put everything else on the line to fight those fires that rage in California and points west or north. Tell that to the children and the elderly that will be plagued by heat stress and vulnerable to increased disease. Tell that to the people evacuated from the Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana who will lose homes as their island vanishes under the rising sea. Or how about Houston, Texas, with the flash flooding? That is one of the most recent. These people are looking to us to protect America and to protect them, and they are looking to the Republicans to finally be reasonable. The truth is that no one will escape the effects of unmitigated climate change.…”