[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 4383]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                             GLOBAL WARMING

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, I want to echo my friend Mr. Kingston's 
remarks and urge Members to take a look at his and Mr. Engel's bill for 
another reason besides national security, that is, it has the 
additional benefit of dealing with the climate change that the globe is 
now experiencing. This is kind of a two-fer, the bill that Mr. Kingston 
just described.
  One, it can free us from our addiction to Middle Eastern oil or help 
in that direction; and, two, it can deal with a problem that you can 
read about in Time magazine. The cover story in Time magazine is about 
global warming. It says: be afraid, be very afraid.
  I hate to think it is from fear. I like to think it is from hope. We 
ought to have the hope that we can free ourselves from our addiction to 
Middle Eastern oil, and we can stop global warming if we do some of the 
commonsense things that Mr. Kingston and Mr. Engel have proposed.
  For those who have been paying attention to the science in the last 
month, we have learned that the Greenland glaciers are accelerating at 
a factor of two. The Arctic has lost 36 cubic miles of ice. Polar bears 
are drowning due to a lack of ice. It is time for some action. Take a 
look at this bill.

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