[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5375]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                             CLIMATE CHANGE

  (Ms. BROWNLEY of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. BROWNLEY of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss the 
severe impact of climate change across the United States.
  On Sunday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a 
new report, laying out the ways that climate change has already 
impacted our economy.
  Climate change threatens our coastal communities through ocean 
acidification and sea level rise. It threatens our big cities by making 
extreme weather events, like Hurricane Sandy, more frequent and more 
intense. It threatens all of us who rely on rain to water our crops or 
on snow for our drinking water.
  California faces a future where less snow and earlier snowmelt will 
strain our already scarce water resources. 2014 is already one of the 
driest years in our State's history. Who knows what 2015 will bring?
  I call on all of my colleagues to come together in a meaningful and 
bipartisan way to tackle climate change.

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