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On the recordDecember 4, 2019
atmospheric carbon dioxide just hit new records in our atmosphere, the highest in the history of humankind, and I rise for the 260th time to call this Chamber to wake up. As we venture further into uncharted dangerous climate change, the National Council for Science and the Environment issued this report, ``Climate Science Research in the United States and U.S. Territories.'' This report surveys climate research papers from public universities across all of our 50 States--every single one of them--to highlight the breadth and the depth of climate science coming out of our State universities and to showcase the climate science centers and institutes that they host. Some colleagues pay no attention to the threat of climate change, but their home State universities sure do. Ten thousand peer-reviewed research papers published out of 80 universities from 2014 through 2018, that is, on average, 185 peer-reviewed articles published on climate change in each State. The report says this: ``In every State, public universities invest in scholarship and education to advance fields such as climate modeling, climate impacts, adaptation, and more.…
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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