James V. Hansen: “The minority has looked at the gentleman's amendment. We have no objection to it, think it adds to the bill, and we…”

We are on a warming planet, the climate is destabilizing, we are getting in trouble and people are dying.

We have a global emergency.

The Obama administration is being forced into a political compromise. It has sacrificed a strong position on mountaintop removal in order to ensure the support of coal-state legislators for a climate bill.

By failing to place limitations on crop insurance subsidies and to re-attach soil erosion and wetland conservation requirements to crop insurance programs, the Committee has failed to do the full reform that is needed.