[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13632]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             CLIMATE CHANGE

  (Mr. LOWENTHAL asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. LOWENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, I sit on the Natural Resources Committee 
here in the House, and through our investigations into our treasured 
national parks, my colleagues and I have discovered a number of tragic 
choices and changes that are in store for all of us and our children.
  Mr. Speaker, because of a changing climate, Glacier National Park's 
glaciers will melt and be no more.
  Mr. Speaker, because of a changing climate, Joshua Tree National 
Park's Joshua trees will disappear from the park named after them.
  Mr. Speaker, because of a changing climate, Rocky Mountain National 
Park's forests are dying because mild winters cannot kill pine beetles, 
which are devastating the park's trees.
  Climate change is upon us now. We are paying for its effects today, 
regardless of the number of votes this body takes to deny what is 
happening before our eyes.

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