Political Quotes

“If I could ask Senator Whitehouse and Senator Udall a simple question--and Senator Whitehouse raised this issue--all over the world, there really is no debate within the scientific community about the reality of global warming, the basic causes of global warming, the severity of global warming. Yet suddenly here in this Congress it becomes a major political issue. We fund the National Institutes of Health. We fund scientific organizations. They do research on cancer. They do research on heart disease. They do all kinds of research. I don't see great political debate about what this says. And suddenly, when you have almost unanimity within the scientific community, this becomes this great dividing political issue. How did it happen that where there is so much unanimity among the scientific community in this country and around the world, this has become such a hot-potato political issue?”