[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17999]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          SAFE CLIMATE CAUCUS

  (Mr. LOWENTHAL asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LOWENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, climate scientists like Dr. Rob Dunbar of 
Stanford are warning us that if we continue down this path of inaction, 
global sea levels will rise, on the average, anywhere from 1 to 7 feet 
by the end of this century.
  Let's just take a 4-foot rise in global sea level, for example. That 
would devastate coastal communities and jeopardize, in my State, 
hundreds of thousands of Californians' properties, causing billions of 
dollars' worth of damage. As someone who represents a coastal port, 
this rise in sea level will cause us tremendous amount of 
infrastructure needs.
  It is our responsibility to take action now to help cut greenhouse 
emissions so that we can start to curb some of the deepest harm caused 
by rising sea levels. If we do not act, we are turning our back on 
every coastal community not only in California, but on this entire 
planet.

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