[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 110 (Wednesday, July 15, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S5092]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CLIMATE CHANGE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, my heart goes out to the people in Eastern 
Kentucky, with the devastating floods. The issue before our entire 
country is that we have storms like this appearing from nowhere, storms 
like we have never had before. I don't know the history of Kentucky, 
but I have watched and been briefed on what is going on around the rest 
of the Nation, and these storms are coming all the time--untoward.
  It is too bad that my Republican colleagues have denied climate 
change. We have to do something, and we have to do something very soon.
  There was a meeting a few days ago at the White House where the 
President announced that with regard to climate change we have to do 
something now. He said that by the year 2100, scientists say, the seas 
will have risen 16 feet. What does that mean? It means that much of 
Florida will be underwater.
  We have things happening that have never been recorded before. In the 
Sierras, some bears are not hibernating. We have an average rainfall 
and snowpack in upper Colorado, and none of it gets into the river. So 
I would hope my friends would join with us in doing something positive 
with regard to climate change.

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