[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 171 (Wednesday, December 4, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H7461]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CLIMATE CHANGE

  (Mr. MORAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN. Mr. Speaker, for 100 consecutive days, the Safe Climate 
Caucus has brought to the House floor the reality and the ramifications 
of climate change.
  There was a recent report from three very reputable think tanks, 
entitled, ``The Arab Spring and Climate Change.'' Let me just quote 
from a couple of the troubling but illuminating conclusions that it 
comes to.

       A prolonged and severe drought during the winter of 2010 in 
     China ``contributed to global wheat shortages and 
     skyrocketing bread prices in Egypt, the world's largest wheat 
     importer,'' accelerating political instability . . .
       And in another part of the report, in quotes, ``social, 
     economic, environmental, and climate changes in Syria . . . 
     eroded the social contract between citizen and government . . 
     . strengthening the case for the opposition movement and 
     irreparably damaging the legitimacy of the Assad regime.''

  The authors conclude that global warming may not have caused the Arab 
Spring but that it clearly made it come earlier.
  The stresses climate change is imposing today on nations across the 
globe are harbingers of more severe consequences in the future. We have 
to address the reality and the ramifications of climate change now.

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