[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 12063]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL

  (Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, as a member of the Safe Climate 
Caucus, I want to urge my colleagues not to bury their heads in the 
sand. Wake up. Climate change is real, and it's already affecting the 
Earth in profound ways.
  The scientific consensus is clear: human activity is causing our 
planet to warm to dangerous levels.
  Scientists agree that higher temperatures are raising sea levels and 
driving severe weather patterns that threaten our economy and our way 
of life. Unpredictable and destructive weather patterns are making it 
harder for farmers to grow crops, while rising sea levels threaten our 
coastal cities and beaches from sea to shining sea.
  Here in Congress, the majority refuses to even acknowledge that we 
have a problem, while the rest of the world seems to understand that 
it's the moral imperative of our time.
  I urge my colleagues to put politics aside, listen to the science, 
and come together and begin to help prevent the worst effects of 
climate change.

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