[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 54 (Thursday, March 28, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2085-S2086]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          TRIBUTE TO GARY YOHE

 Mr. MURPHY. Mr. President, I would like to take a moment to 
pay tribute to Gary Yohe, a Connecticut resident

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and preeminent national expert on climate change, who is retiring from 
Wesleyan University.
  Professor Yohe has had an impressive and distinguished career. After 
receiving his PhD in economics from Yale University, he devoted his 
career to climate impact and mitigation research. He worked as a senior 
member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, receiving a 
share of the 2007 Nobel Prize, served as vice chair of the National 
Climate Assessment Development and Advisory Committee under President 
Obama, and has testified before the Senate on multiple occasions to 
explain the risks and impacts of climate change. Professor Yohe 
continues to serve as a member of the New York City Panel on Climate 
Change and has been a member of the faculty at Wesleyan University for 
more than 40 years. On a more personal note, he has been a great 
resource to my office, and I hope he will continue to contribute to 
public policy after his official retirement.
  I would like to congratulate Professor Yohe on his retirement from 
Wesleyan University and take this moment to thank him for his 
contributions to the scientific community.

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