Political Quotes

“We had similar testimony in the Senate Intelligence Committee. The witness who testified before us released his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee and very much the same conclusion: We judge that global climate change will have wide-ranging implications for U.S. national security interests over the next 20 years. The factors that would affect U.S. national security interests as a result of climate change would include food and water shortages, increased health problems, including the spread of disease, increased potential for conflict, ground subsidence--the Earth lowering-- flooding, coastal erosion, extreme weather events, increases in the severity of storms in the Gulf of Mexico, disruptions in U.S. and Arctic infrastructure, and increases in immigration from resource- scarce regions of the world. There are probably climate deniers who say: That is all part of the conspiracy. The Defense Department is in on it. All those companies are in on it. The intelligence community is in on it. But if there is a hoax, what is more mainstream than National Geographic? Is National Geographic in on it too? They would have to be because they did a special report a few years ago on climate change and they showed a polar bear stranded on the melting ice. Here is what they said: It's here. Melting glaciers, heat waves, rising seas, trees flowering earlier, lakes freezing later, migratory birds delaying their flight south.…”