[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 13654-13655]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS THREAT TO FUTURE GENERATIONS

  (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, during our discussion of the Federal debt, 
we heard a lot of discussion about threats to our children's and our 
grandchildren's future. What we have not heard enough discussion about 
is another threat to our children's and our grandchildren's future, and 
that is the threat of climate change.
  We have seen the first bitter taste of this oncoming tsunami of 
change with 7 inches of rain in 3 hours in Virginia, with wildfires in 
Texas that have been unprecedented in our Nation's history. And now our 
current job crisis does not give us the luxury of ignoring this long-
term threat to our children's and our grandchildren's future.
  I want to alert Members to a thing they can check on right now, the 
Climate Reality Project, which is something going on until 7 o'clock 
tonight--climaterealityproject.org. If people are interested in what is 
happening to our country today, around the country and the world, check 
out climaterealityproject.org. It is a bitter taste. Let's keep our eye 
on that ball as well.

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