[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 121 (Thursday, September 30, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H7938]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             GLOBAL WARMING

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, there are two very significant things which 
happened today regarding global warming. The first is that the U.S. 
Department of Commerce's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in 
Princeton, New Jersey, announced that they had completed the largest 
computer simulation of what will happen in global warming and how it 
will affect hurricanes. They concluded that the seas being warmed by 
rising atmospheric concentration of gases will result in a typical 
hurricane intensity increasing about an extra half step on the five-
step scale.
  This is not good news, Mr. Speaker, particularly since our Nation, 
under this administration, is not doing anything significant to deal 
with global warming.
  In contrast, interestingly, today, Russia and their parliament 
indicated that it is likely they will join the Kyoto Protocol to deal 
with global warming. This is a difficulty for our businesses if this 
becomes a worldwide regime and we are not part of the international 
effort.
  We hope tonight there will be some discussion of this. And if not, 
one way or another, this November, Americans will vote for a president 
who will decide to take some action on global warming.

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