Merkley made an opening statement.
01/26/2009
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Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And thank you, Dr. Collins, and your team, for the vision.
If you are going to reduce enough, you have to leave a lot of the identified fossil fuel reserves... in the ground.
There is a window of opportunity here that is important as part of this worldwide perspective, leave it in the ground.
The temperature of the planet would still increase by more than 6 degrees Fahrenheit.