Bernie Sanders On Climate Change

we are in a remarkable moment in american history and in fact in world history and that is that

for the first time to the best of my knowledge we have a major political party which by and large is

rejecting what the scientific community is saying that we can disagree about funding for education

taking and there is no more debate the overwhelming majority of so thing a climate change is

real climate change is caused by human activity climate change is already causing devastating problems

and methane emissions that situation well only get worse that is not really more on that we a

major political party that is rejecting that is extremely fright now the evidence is

over well me according to the u. s. national climate assessment released in may the average global temperature has increased by more than one

and a half degrees fahrenheit between eighteen eighty and twenty twelve and temperatures in my state of vermont any

yes why twenty one hundred new england could be as much a baby that we should be having and

it would be an important debate because nobody has all the answers is how do you deal with this crisis

how do we work with countries around the world to reduce carbon to transform our energy system how

do you do that's tough stuff nobody has any magical and but that should be the debate the idea that we're still debating whether or not this

is a real issue when the scientific community tells a this is the planetary crisis is

extremely distressing planetary causing sea levels to rise national ocean i know

only the past fifty years what we are talking about if we do not get our the major cities in the united states and

countries around the world around the world being under water being on the water as a result of

rising sea levels and increasingly intense forms catastrophic storm surge have been rising as

well you know people talk about financial issues i will remind my colleagues that hurricane sandy because

this government alone over sixty billion dollars and all over the world love with a girl there

are projections that we we'll be spending trillion dollars trillions of dollars in order to deal with rising c.

level extreme weather disturbances and other manifestation climate change i would remind my

colleagues that in a certain sense this is this debate let's taking place today is very similar to a debate that took place fifty or sixty years ago right

putting ads on television and they were spending huge amounts of a trying to convince the american people that

the battle had nothing to do with cancer emphysema and other serious illness finally the truth won