I think we are very much interested in looking at, in addition, how much of this additional warming is going to drive sea level in the short term and what types of measures can we take to really work to constrain the upper limit on sea level rise in addition to just talking about temperature, what can we do to really drive a cap on how much we're willing to accommodate in additional rise in sea level and as it impacts our infrastructure.
Senator Whitehouse emphasizes the need to address sea level rise and its infrastructure impacts.
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I think there are some Republican senators who are eager to crawl. I think there are others who are trying to keep their powder dry and stay out of trouble with Trump for as long as they can.
I think the bottom line here is that there is an element of Trump wanting to sort of subjugate Republican senators here.
These cliffs, I think, are really hard for people that get caught by surprise by them, and they are also, it seems to me, pretty terrible just public policy.
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