Jeff Merkley actually said...

Certainly we have benefited, if you will, from utilizing fossil fuels on a scale much larger than individual citizens in China or India.

We are having substantial droughts, three of the worst ever droughts in the Klamath Basin in just the last decade and a half.

That commitment came out of a dialog with China about the need for all the nations of the world to proceed to take on this issue?

This is something having a huge impact on our economy, on our rural way of life, on our fishing, our farming and our forests right now.