lord of our lives i stand before you this day in the presence of those who along with our president and house of representatives are responsible for the governance of our nation and to a large extent the welfare of our world i am acutely aware dear lord that they are grappling with momentous issues in these challenging times at home and abroad as on previous occasions throughout our nation's history a lord i believe that we stand in need of your design guidance we need the kind of insight and wisdom that comes from on high we need minds and hearts that are in tune with your spirit we need a renewed sense of purpose which is founded upon those divinely ordained principles that were established by our forefathers so come now and guide the members of the senate and their deliberations this day may their words and their actions reflect the mind in the heart of the one who loves us and who has read deemed us through his son in whose name we pray amen have joined me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag  the clerk will read a communication to the senate washington d c october twenty sixth two thousand and seven to the senate under the provisions of rule one paragraph three of the standing rules of the senate i hereby appoint the honor well sheldon whitehouse a senator from the state of rhode island  deal with so i don't think we'll be in session for a long time working on this but world and for business all know roll call votes will occur today the majority manager senator lautenberg breaking with senator lott and they already manageress expected be here to work with any let me just say this is a rare cloture titian it's signed by democrats and republicans an equal numbers this is an extremely important bill for our country and the senate realizes that i'm hopeful and quite confident we may be that we won't need cloture but if we do we can go ahead and do that if we don't that would save us some time we've got other lots of other the other things to do here that are so important i'm also going to if unless something untoward comes i'm going to move to the farm bill a week from monday or thereabouts reason for that mr president this is a bill and we need to do every five years i'm not i'm like many think the bill could be better i think if the committee didn't tremendously good job there's a lot of reforms in this bill for some there's not enough but for farm bill i've seen a number of them come through here it's certainly an improvement and i look forward to having the manager work this through it is the quickest time possible i think it's the i congratulate the committee they work very hard to come up with titles of the bills for the second time as twenty two thirty three a bill to provide a permanent deduction for state and local general sales taxes as twenty two thirty four a bill to amend the internal revenue code of one thousand nine hundred six and so forth and for other purposes h r five o five an act to express the policy of the united states required regarding the united states relationship with native hawaiians and so forth and for other purposes h r thirty nine sixty three and act two and then title twenty one of the social security act and so forth and for other purposes i would object any further proceedings with respect to these bills i do it on block objection is heard the bills we placed on the calendar this present i send them if i i will withhold hillis and all that see the bill is reported once on their toes cloture motion we the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule twenty two of the standing rules of the senate here by move to bring to a close the debate on counter number one fifty eight s two ninety four amtrak reauthorization signed by seventeen president normally we waive the reading of the names and i thought it was so refreshing to hear a cloture motion with democrats republicans on it that i wanted to hear that i'm almost anxious do it again but i don't think that's mr alexander the opportunity to work together to move this bill along his support sexual and i know that he is pleased with the progress that we made like i let that we've made this morning to this point today as i third day on the bill yesterday we made very good progress we were able to work through a number of amendments some of which we were able to agree to and some of which we disposed of with votes now this morning cloture has been filed which should put us on a schedule that thinnish this bill early next week and it's very important that we do so for the future of americans america's transportation systems now whether it's to reduce congestion on i rose or at our airports or to reduce the greenhouse gas gas emissions that puts us at  of global warming enveloping our society in our world or to give people another safe mode of transportation during an emergency rail is critical and we cannot neglect th to throw another one of the storms by the fires forest fires all of the things that we see that call at times for evacuation so our bill by authorizing two billion dollars a year for amtrak in the state over the next six years will make all of these things a much easier way for a merica to deal with the problem of a a decaying infrastructure it provides funding for amtrak's capital needs as well as state grants for passenger rail and while amtrak had record ridership in revenues last year our bill requires changes that amtrak to make sure that these plans will help the railroad to continue moving in the right direction it would require amtrak to reform its operations to reduce its federal operating subsidy by over forty percent over the life of the bill mr president we worked very hard to forge this bipartisan compromise plan last congress our plan was approved by the senate as an amendment to the budget bill by a vote of ninety three to six and i hope that early next week we'll get a strong vote in support of our bill so that we can be one step closer to to making it law and  thank you mr president and i know the absence of a last day of the work week for the u s senate they will continue debate today on amtrak funding they don't expect to finish today looking to early next week to take a final vote yesterday they did approve a resolution as part of this package extending the ban on internet taxes for another seven years this is different from the house version of that bill and the house version is for four years the house yesterday meanwhile passed the children's health insurance bill second go around for this bill third if you count the override bill the vote yesterday was to sixty five to one forty two to see were republican seats supporting the bill this time than the original time the voters sent temporarily set aside the pending amendment and call up amendments three four six seven three four six eight three four six nine and three four seven zero one block on behalf of senator de mint that objection so ordered the clerk will report the senator from missouri mr bond or m temporarily set aside without objection and i call up amendment thirty four sixty four which is at the desk for a report the senator from missouri mr bond proposes an amendment number thirty four sixty four as he as as one who has hopes to see a robust efficient passenger rail service i've long been a supporter and rider on amtrak as governor of missouri i started the state support of amtrak to run trains between kansas city and st louis but as i've watched amtrak over the years i have been increasingly concerned about the rising costs and they are relatively stagnating writers  and as i look at this bill i do not believe that it includes all the needed reforms that are crucial to this success of amtrak while there are many positive and aspects to the bill the fundamental problem with amtrak is that it has no clearly defined mission is it supposed to provide only those services where it can make a profit it's supposed to supplement air service in specific markets regardless of cost is it supposed to serve rural markets regardless of cost is it supposed to provide tourist travel regardless because all of these have been held out from time to time as reasons to subsidize amtrak and as excuses for why it should not be held accountable for the effect e use of the taxpayers money our every those are empty excuses and the money is continues to flow out and i believe strongly that reform is necessary while amtrak's revenue ridership and cast operating  loss numbers improve this year this improve financial performance reflect labor costs held low by the absence of a labor settlement once a settlement is reached amtrak's costs will jumped up jump up reflecting the pay raises that have largely been deferred during the past seven years during which time there has not been a labor contract amtrak has made no significant progress in restructuring its operations to become less reliant on federal funds the pace of amtrak's reform savings has slowed from sixty one million in f y o six to a planned forty six million in f y o eight there is little chance amtrak will achieve anywhere near the five hundred million in annual  reform savings it promised when it adopted its two thousand and five plan the g a o reports consistently cite that amtrak has lost the focus of its statutory mandate to be operated and managed as a for profit company just last year over ten percent of amtrak's operating subsidy was spent on food and beverages and a like amount subsidized first class service there is no critical public purpose associated  expenditures yet there are some who assume they are ok but that because that's what amtrak has always done best to ninety four i regret to say will not change this deplorable system while section two  eight will have f r a and amtrak developed performance metrics there is no clear statement of amtrak smith lamb tracks mission on which to base these metrics we should not miss the opportunity after thirty six years finally and clearly to state amtrak's mission it is for that reason that i offer as an amendment to s two nine four there stablished much of amtrak's mission that mission should be quote to provide efficient and effective intercity passenger rail mobility in those travel markets where passenger rail offers a trip time and service quality competitive travel option consistent with the goal of continual reduction in federal operating subsidies required to provide the service close quotes with his mission clearly established that f r a and amtrak can establish meaningful performance measures that hold amtrak accountable for accomplishing that mission obviously meaningful benchmarks will help both amtrak and those of us in congress measure its efforts and reform in fact failure to meet benchmarks would be a good reason to lessen our terminate these excessive subsidies my colleagues may say that the bill contains benchmarks for reform under section two zero eight metrics and standards section reads and i will quote it within one hundred eighty days develop new or improved existing metrics and minimum standards for measuring the performance and service quality of inner city passenger train operations including cost recovery on time performance and minutes of delay ridership on board services stations facilities equipment  and other services such metrics at a minimum shall include the percentage of avoidable and fully allocated operating costs covered by avoidable and foliott allocated operating costs covered by passenger revenues on each route rider ship or train mile operated measures of on time performance and delays incurred by inner city passenger rail close quote now exactly what reforms are contained within these metrics and standards there is no mission no goals benchmarks for operating subsidies and as i said quite frankly no reforms if the authorizes were truly after offering operating metrics they would have year by year over year improvement on metrics applied on a route by route business line or corporate basis on some of the following operating ratio operating revenues relative to operating costs excluding depreciat measure improvements in cost recovery to cash operating loss would measure revenue and expense improvements three savings from a form initiative while the operating loss includes the savings monitoring the savings allows for tracking the implementation of structural reform improvements for cash operating loss per passenger mile and overall efficiency measures five labor productivity passenger miles per employee and finally in quick meant reliable any percent of units out of service the other thing missing from amtrak oversight has been realty so i also propose changing the language in section two ten from being permissive with which says the f r a may withhold grants from trains that don't measure up to being mandatory f r a shall withhold grants from the trains that don't measure up today the secretary of transportation has the ability to discontinue service on specific routes but none have been proposed for elimination because perhaps there is no mission statement for amtrak on which to make a determination for closure this measure i propose doesn't push amtrak off a cliff but it recognizes we cannot afford for amtrak to be all things to all people it requires amtrak to take a degree of responsibility that's been lacking in the use of taxpayers money it would require amtrak to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its service to reduce the demands it makes of our taxpayers the senator from new jersey mr president i want to respond to senator biden's amendment and but i would first ask the senator from missouri whether or not the delay that he experienced this morning was due to congestion on the highways was that the that's what we all live with i sure are my friend from new jersey i just wanted to see whether there was any personal direct experience with congestion on the the the roads i don't rail lines they are definitely an efficient alternative but in many areas of the country people do not have rail service existing rail that we expand rail service all across this country and the places well this that was the interpretation is said the senator said that there was no real service available in lots of places so i take there is no need for this amount it covers some of the same debate that we've already that we've already voted on here as part of the discussion this amendment establishes a new mission for amtrak and sets a new standard by which and track and operating subsidies for amtrak services should be judged and well like i can agree with the general principles of the mission statement it largely covers getting expanded use but we have to look at what's happened in our society what the conditions are that has put so much pressure put so much pressure expanded by a hundred million people one hundred million people and barely over thirty thirty five years and it was never thought that our aviation system would be so strained because of inadequate infrastructure and whatever reasons that can't be relied upon  for one out of four flights is late appointments or mesh crowding is standard our highways are jammed and you know maybe in some parts of the country you don't see the congestion that we see and many of the metropolitan areas but highways are notoriously slow moving now because of the expanded traffic and so and track has been under the same pressure and thank goodness that we had amtrak in existence and we've seen more rapid transportation more rapid service from their to more more riders over twenty six million passengers in the last year so that when we look at amtrak's performance we have to consider what conditions miles from paris to brussels where our nato headquarters exists in an hour and twenty minutes if anything similar to that could ever be achieved with amtrak we would reduce the congestion in the sky substantially so crowded in the air these days separations are narrowed and we're expecting over five thousand new light jets into our system in the next ten years so we have to look at the conditions the expectations that amtrak has had to live with over this period of time insufficient capital that was where it all started and it's continued to make it very difficult for amtrak to produce the kind of service that we can and i i believe that they ought to be responsible for maintaining the already requires amtrak to minimize subsidies and provide high quality rail service i believe that the real goal of this amendment is to reduce or eliminate federal operating support for long distance routes and other services where current infrastructure problems or on time performance limits to serve service quality now of course  as i said earlier that these problems resulting from insufficient capital expenditures and also hosting freight railroad delays some of the these problems are addressed by this bill and most of the accountability that senator bond desires is already in our bill through requirements of the five year plan through the reduction of the operating subsidy by forty percent our our bill calls for changes that are significant as we attempt to put them in place that's where we are that's where we're going and while the amendment also requires the sender's amendment also requires that the secretary element eight funding for any route not meeting tracks long distance plan s are required under the bill as two ninety four already gives the secretary the authority to do this but our bill preserves some flexibility for the heaven forbid if we have another series hurricane or terrorist attack the secretary should have the ability to take these situations in the consideration when judging whether amtrak meets the requirements under currently drafted i urge my colleagues to oppose mr president as president i'd like to respond to my friend from new jersey and point out that i may have had some operating delays coming into washington downtown washington this morning because of the rain i'm not the only one service reliability continues to pla amtrak system wide in two thousand and seven on time performance through august was only sixty eight percent and long distance on time performance was only forty  sen points out that there are constraints on amtrak with the exception i believe of connecticut which has i believe its lines most of the amtrak lines run on lines  chairman of the subcommittee were proposing that we build a national a national network passenger rails buy the land buy the equipment install the rails i would be happy to take a look at the numbers they're going to be involved whether there are billions or trillions but i question whether we could make that investment but i have stated only in this amendment is that we should come to an agreement on what the mission of amtrak is what is it supposed to do if you don't know where you're going it's hard to tell when you got there yes we put money into capital operating plan a five year plan in two thousand and five there were supposed to be operating savings alley operating savings are not being realized and what i propose is simply good management techniques now my colleague has run a successful business and i would assume that to run a business it had to have a mission and he had to have standards and goals by which t judge the achievement of that mission to s two ninety four talks about all kinds of metrics and things like that but it doesn't say that there's any goal how do you know if you've gotten there where you go and you don't know maybe i've missed it but i don't think any of us are clear on the clearly stated mission of amtrak and any standards by which the achievement of that should be judged now i would be happy to have a discussion and this is the appropriate appropriate place to do it on what should be the mission of amtrak and maybe for my edification i would ask my friend from new jersey to cite to me where what the written mission of amtrak is because i have to admit i'm not familiar operating and marketing concepts amtrak shall provide intercity and commuter rail passenger transportation that completely develops the potential of modern rail transportation to meet the inner city and commuter past transportation needs of the united states the first goal is to use its best business judgment in acting to minimize united states government subsidies including and it lists a number of these things which i would  diligent there is no doubt that there there there has we have to fill the board of abstract open positions we have done that we want to expand the board to a more  significant body of opinion then we're doing all kinds of things but i would remind a friend from missouri and i have an affection for the state of missouri having been a soldier there and many years ago  having trying to dig foxholes in the ozark mountains well that we know what still spine of those people who live in missouri now it's the the death and they and the the quality of the so but in the final analysis i think it's important to note a significant difference between this is operation i was fortunate enough to run a fairly large company but business t business however it's clearly stated that amtrak is that not for profit organization and when we look at what happens with good business operations and think of the subsidy it's been given to the airlines it was it was as a result of a terrible calamity in american in american history nine eleven but over twenty billion dollars has been given to the airlines for profit businesses and doing very well right right now i might add and still getting subsidies and so i think that in fairness we will have a chance to look at this further we are  pressed by several things that the least of which is that i think there are there are others who would like to be included in in the debate here and i would be colleague doesn't agree that amtrak should be providing efficient and effective passenger service in those travel markets in which passenger rail offers a trip time and service quality competitive or complementing complimentary travelling travel options consistent with the go of continuing to reduce federal operating subsidies we're not saying it should be a for profit company but  certainly should not be a continual growing last operation i believe that we must have some discipline some discipline that i do not see in the law and particularly saying best business practices best business practices to do what so i hope we can continue this discussion and i thank the chair and my colleagues for the time thank you mr president with that  each senator from north dakota mr president i had previously requested the right to speak for thirty minutes morning business is that correct that has been granted mr president i want to talk this morning about the president's request for one hundred ninety plus billion dollars in emergency funding for iraq and afghanistan that is for replenishing accounts for the war in iraq and for activities in afghanistan before i did that however i want to just mention the subject of a rand i noticed in the paper this morning i noticed the other day in a press conference by president bush who made a reference to world war three and a description of  the issues with iran i'm very concerned about what i hear from this administration that this administration has had a history of describing for us how they see the world  many of us have spent a lot of time in classified top secret briefings with members of this administration some of whom are now speaking out even at this stage they include secretary of state condoleezza rice vice president dick cheney and others we've had plenty of experience in top secret briefings with them previously in which they describe circumstances with respect to the country of iraq turns out what we were told in top secret briefings was not accurate no one has really done the in depth investigation to find out why that was the case it appears to me that in some cases that which was described to us by top at top level folks in this administration about iraq prior to the iraq war in some cases it turns out they either should have known and in some cases may have known that which they were imparting to the congress and to the american people was not accurate  my my point is this i think there is precious little credibility on the part of the administration on these issues i do not and i think i would say most of my colleagues would feel the same do not want this administration to be moving off precipitous based on information they believe they have to take military action of any type against another country they certainly cannot in my judgment do that without the consent of congress and i believe they would have a very difficult time getting the consen congress given the lack of credibility in this administration and many of these issues these are important issues preventing the greve iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon is a very important mission in that in my judgment but we will best accomplish that through diplomatic means with other countries particularly with the europeans and the russians and many others and i must say that i my own view of the foreign policy of this administration i regret to say it is that it has largely been an inept and a clumsy foreign policy at best and we have we faced as a result of it very substantial challenges around the world and my hope is that we see much much more action on diplomacy and negotiation and working to form alliances and much less front page headlines by members of this administration mr president i want to talk about priorities and i want to talk about the president's request for one hundred ninety four billion dollars in emergency funding none of it paid for but first i want to talk about this little girl this little girl miss to shine rain little light to shine rain little light is from the crow nation in montana she loved to dance as you can see sparkling beautiful eyes five years old love to dance the indian that says the sun's grandmother testified at a hearing i held on the crow nation of the crow reservation in montana with my colleague senator tester  grandfather and grandmother rather told us a story about the sun rain little like the sean died by the way this little girl with the bright eyes and the love of dancing isn't with us anymore just john had health problems and  last year she was taken many times to the crow indian health service clinic and they were treating her after they were diagnosing various things they were treating her for depression well it turned out this little girl didn't have depression this little girl had a cancerous tumor terminal cancer at one point her grandfather who was with her at the clinic pointed out the bulbous condition of her fingertips and toes and and said to the health care folks that it appeared to him this reflected the lack of oxygen to the body and they ought to check and what would what was causing that that concern was dismissed another visit her grandmother asked the doctor to eliminate the possibility that this child was suffering from cancer or look a mia but the family's concerns went unheeded and in august two thousand and six shawn was rushed from the crow clinic to the s vincent hospital in billings montana airlifted to the general denver children's hospital diagnosed with an untreatable incurable form of cancer to shine rain little light live three more months after the tumor was discovered in what her grandmother said was unmedicated pain and then died now i show you this picture of this beautiful young girl because her family said it was all right for me to use her image to describe the serious problem of health care on american indian reservations to shine rain little light didn't get the health care that we would expect and she died we just had on the floor the united states senate a bill that would have provided three point eight million american kids who don't now have health insurance coverage would provide them health insurance coverage but the president says and i am likely to have to have a cloture petition filed on just the motion to proceed to it because for some it may not be a priority apparently this ought to be a priority yes this little girl from memory the health of other children like it ought to be a priority in this country and i hope this senate will make it a priority we certainly did on the children's health insurance program and we came up short in the house of being able to override the president's speech but will try again isn't this something that most of us feel represents an urgency as i've said before a i don't know what's in second third or fourth place in what's important in people's lives but i know what's in first place it's their children and their children's health so now having said that about priorities and values and about someone looking at what we spend our money on one hundred years from now looking back to historians through the rear view mirror will say what was that group of people what were they doing what were they about what result was their value system and they'd say well they didn't they didn't feel least some of them didn't feel like covering children with health insurance was the most significant priority they didn't feel that adequate funding for the indian health service was the most significant priority nobody knew very much little light lives several months an unmedicated pain lived many months before that an undiagnosed conditions with terminal illness nobody really knew that so that wasn't a priority so let's at the priorities the president has proposed to us in this year that we spend one hundred ninety four billion dollars in emergency funding to continue in iraq and afghanistan now by my calculation that sixteen billion dollars a month four billion dollars a week now one penny of it is paid for the president says i declared emergency put it on top of the debt then the president went to arkansas at exactly the same time and held a press conference at a political rally and said i'm going to be the fiscally responsible president and i'm going to stop this prophethood spending i don't know maybe he thinks people are paying attention people are reading what's going on here's what the congressional budget office says they estimate a two point four trillion dollar long term war cost quote us wars in iraq and afghanistan could cost taxpayers a total of two point four trillion dollars by tw seventeen when counting the huge interest costs because combat is being financed with borrowed money according to the nonpartisan congressional budget office we're borrowing the money because the president wants to spend the money but he doesn't want to ask anybody to pay for it here's what this war's costing take those estimates and look at what in current dollars korean war vietnam war persian gulf war and the iraq war all of that borrow the soldiers go fight at the order of the commander in chief and when they come back they can pay the bills that is not a value system that makes much sense to me now mr president the president says i want one hundred ninety four million dollars and by the way if you don't agree with that you don't support the troops he says we'll see who supports the troops let me make another construct here this is in some ways about supporting the troops but it's much more than that it's also about supporting the contractors because a substantial portion of this war is contracted out and i want to go through with my colleagues about who we're supporting with this money as well contractors for which there is no oversight the secretary state was up here just yesterday answering questions about that and i would hope that the secretary of state is properly chasen's reading the stories and finally understanding what these contractors have been doing with no oversight and virtually no accountability but let me go through a list of these contract issues so that people understand and the president would understand this is not just about are you supporting the troops it's about are you supporting the contractors with virtually no oversight six billion dollars in contracts to review the pentagon says september twenty first two thousand and seven the new york times quote military officials said that contracts worth six billion dollars to provide essential supplies to american troops in kuwait iraq and afghanistan including food water and shelter were under review by criminal investigators in addition eighty eight billion dollars in contracts and programs including those for body armor for american soldiers and material for iraqi and afghan security forces are being audited for financial irregularities so when the president says are you supporting the soldiers my question is this are you watching the contractors because the american taxpayer is getting fleeced this doesn't support soldiers this undermines the soldiers six billion dollars in contracts reviewed the pentagon says the army reported that of seventy eight cases of fraud and corruption under investigation that obtained twenty criminal indictments and uncovered over fifteen million dollars in bribes in the same article contract the enormous expenditures of american and iraqi money on the iraqi reconstruction program at least forty billion dollars overall have been criticized for reasons that go well beyond the corruption cases that have been uncovered so far we call oversight poor planning and endless security problems have contributed to many of the program's failures some forty billion dollars have been spent no this isn't in support of the troops this is in support of the administration's mission by which they hire contractors and shovel the money in their direction most of us have read the stories about this but they are really pretty unbelievable we sent one hundred eighty five thousand a k forty seven s to iraq hundred  eighty five thousand they can only account for seventy five thousand of them one hundred ten thousand a k forty seven was bought and paid for by the american taxpayers are missing some undoubtedly in the hands of the insurgents being aimed at american troops one hundred seventy thousand pistols eighty thousand of them are missing that is unbelievably inept on the part of who we ought to expect to be accountable and to make certain that the taxpayers money is spent wisely number one number two that if you're sending weapons to iraq that they end up in the right hands not the wrong hands body armor it's just unbelievable that we have a couple hundred thousand a k forty seven pistols that we sent to iraq we don't have the foggiest idea where they are except we know that some of them ended up in the wrong hands we have trained about three hundred sixty thousand police and soldiers for security in the armed forces and the police forces we've trained three hundred fifty thousand of them we believe there somewhere somewhere around one hundred eighty thousand to two hundred seventy three thousand still around but no one knows absenteeism is up around fifty percent and there's no official document in the federal government that tells us how many exist in the security force at the moment and by the way only one third of those that have been traditionally trained are now being trained so we've reduced by two thirds the number that we are now training even as we are losing a substantial portion of the three hundred sixty thousand that have already been trained for security which begs the question when we leave iraq and we will is it up to the iraqis to provide for their own security and after you've traded three hundred fifty thousand people to do so if you're not trained enough iraqis so that if the iraqis have the will to provide for their own security they can do that one would expect so as to present the april of two thousand and three and june of two thousand and four twelve billion dollars of u s currency was hauled to iraq and c one thirty s and big palace in fact that was dispersed by what is called the coalition provisional authority which is us we created the c at least nine billion dollars of that is missing some have said so what does it matter some of this money was iraqis money this was all money that we we had we were safe keeping so if we happened to the cash they are left to quote i have no idea i can't tell you whether the money went to the right things or didn't nor do i actually think it's important the president tuesday october twenty third that's this week an independent oversight agency said it could not complete an audit of a one point two billion dollar contract to train iraqi police because records kept by the state department by design corp international the contractor were inaccurate and in disarray documents were insufficient order for us to do an audit that's this week the secretary of state is up here this week testifying i don't know shit whether she was asked about this but this is under her stewardship her responsibility state department paid forty three point eight million dollars for manufacturing and temporary storage of a residential camp that had never been used state department's payment of thirty six point four million dollars for weapons and equipment including body armor armored vehicles and communications equipment couldn't be this week again among the problems and then a five before the audit was suspended over duplicate payments the purchase of a never used one point eight million dollar x ray scanner and payments of three hundred eighty seven thousand dollars to dine corp officials in hotels rather than other available accommodations and mr president i tell you all that i should have brought a towel that henry bunting brought to a hearing that i held last year to show you symbolically what's been fundamentally wrong henry bunting was a purchaser for for halliburton or kellogg brown and root the subsidiary of halliburton he said i worked in kuwait i was supposed to buy the equipment and so on and so they wanted towels hand towels for the troops and so i made out an order for handles because halliburton is furnishing the handles for the troops and my supervisor said no you can't order that particular hand tile you've got to order a hand with a logo on it that's embroider read that says k b r we want the logo of our company on the handle but he said it will triple the price supervise it doesn't matter taxpayers paying for this is a cost plus contracts and then he went on to tell us about seventy six hundred dollars a month in leasing an s u v about paying forty or forty five dollars a case for coca cola he went on to tell us all of these stories didn't matter to taxpayers paying for it it is unbelievable if you just take the lid off this and smell just a bit about what's happening with these contracts now the president says i want a hundred ninety four billion dollars additional funding i want it as an emergency i don't want anybody to pay for it i want to put it on top of the debt that's sixteen billion dollars a month this year four billion dollars a week and i don't want any questions about it and we're going to see he says who supports american troops that money is also going to support the same kind of incompetence in contracting that has been fleecing the american taxpayers now for about four years and i think hard questions need to be asked yes of the president the vice president the heads of the agencies that are responsible for this how do you justify this how do you justify insisting that this congress come up with one hundred ninety four billion dollars and then we we can't afford we don't have enough money to care about the show on rain little light and she died because the health care didn't exist for this young lady that's not a priority we can't afford money for example despite the fact that the bill is fully paid for for children's health insurance we can't afford sufficient money for the indian health care system so to s what's the value system here and what are the priorities once again the president says well the priorities are we need the one hundred ninety four billion dollars it's an emergency if you don't support it you don't support the troops fac is this entire senate supports our troops we've demonstrated it time and time and time again but it's also time for us to tell the president we don't support a strategy that says let's keep spending money and not pay for it we don't support a strategy that has us in the middle of a civil war going door to door in baghdad when osama bin laden last week sent us another tape osama bin ladin is the one who boasted about attacking our country he's the one who boasted about killing innocent americans and our national intelligence estimate of july of this year says the following it says the greatest threat to our country is al qaida and its leadership is the greatest threat to our country and our homeland our national intelligence estimate says al qaeda and their leadership and they are reconstituting themselves and developing new training camps and rebuilding and they are in a quote secure unquote or safe hide away in northern pakistan there ought not be one acre of ground on this planet that secure safe for those that murdered innocent innocent americans but instead of dealing with the greatest threat to this country and that is a mandate of the leadership of  this administration has is going door to door in baghdad in the middle of a civil war and now says they want they say they want one hundred ninety four billion dollars in additional funding and they wanted as emergency funding for bill in dollars a week for the next year mr president i think there's something horribly wrong with what's going on here and i think this congress has to tell this president the changes on the way on to mention something that attends this because i don't know what this congress is going to do with all of these funding requests but i know that the next time we vote on emergency funding request by the president i'm going to offer a couple of amendments and they may be out of order they may be blue slip they may be whatever but we're going to vote on them one way or the other and that is that we need to start paying for that which we're spending money on a president can go to a political rally down in arkansas and say this is a new george w bush and now i'm going to be and i'm going to be a fiscally conservative but the fact is he has recommended all of the spending the highest amount of spending in the history of our country from this administration he suggests that we continue to spend but not pay for it i want to talk about a couple of pay force my colleagues and heard me speak on and about this tonight i offer this again the next time we have an emergency fund there's an enterprising reporter named david evans from whom for bloomberg rather and david evans went to the cayman islands and he went to this little place on church street a quiet little four story place and reported that there are twelve thousand seven hundred forty eight corporations living here in this little four storey white building all they're not there it's a legal fiction created by lawyers so that companies could claim this is their address to avoid paying taxes well i've got some legislation that would just stop that dead in its tracks you can't move an address for the purpose of not paying taxes if you're not doing your central business there you can't claim that's where you are we taxes if you've never left and so i've introduced legislation i will intend to offer that as any as an amendment to what the president would suggest we spend money for and not pay for i would suggest that let's begin paying for some of this runaway manufacturing plants that's another one  i have a piece of legislation i've introduced on runaway manufacturing plants we actually pay somebody if they close their american manufacturing plant fire their workers move the jobs to china we say good for you we want to give you a tax cut for doing that i think that's totally nuts i've tried four times here in the senate to close it down guess what there are over fifty senators who actually support as well about forty to forty four senators have supported me and i'm i'm going to keep pushing this until one day we have some deep reservoir of common sense and says it is crazy for us to say if you close your plant in our country and ship your jobs overseas china sri lanka bangladesh indonesia will give you a tax break for doing it it makes no sense at all third i've got a bill that i've introduced ending what is called cross border leasing the most per knishes of all of the things that are going on is american companies buying foreign assets belonging to foreign governments let me give an example covina bank formally first union but was called via bank one of the big banks in this country entered into a sale in lease out transaction to purchase sewer pipes and bochum germany could be a bank in america wants to buy sewer pipes in germany well why would an american bank want to buy a sewer and not even a sewer in america a german city sewer system why would they want to do it because they want to take ownership and be able to get large depreciation on property that otherwise would not be depreciated because it's owned by a government so they pay leases back to the the say d which will continue to use the sewer system just as if they still it but that financial transaction turns out to be about a one hundred seventy five million dollar tax savings to an american bank of all of the unbelievably pernicious awful tax cuts that exist in this country this is it now those finance committee has taken some action and good for them they need to take more action i testified just a couple of weeks ago they're going to shut this down more gradual i say shut it off and shut it all off even retroactive there's no sense supporting something that was done when it was fundamentally wrong we can no one can justify this nonsense so i'm going to offer these three and several other provisions to anything that we have on the floor of the united states senate that says  let's let's have emergency funding emergency funding request on itself needs to be inspected carefully what for is there a change of course in iraq if not why not is this is supporting the troops or is it the support of the contracts and the contractors young woman named by the team green house had the courage to give her a job because she was willing to stand up and say this is the most blatant contract abuse i've witnessed as an employee of the federal government who actually she was the highest ranking civilian official in the united states army corps of engineers they're the ones that monitor these contracts and approve the contracts she stood up to the old boys network and said what you are doing here is wrong it's the most blatant abuse just out talking about the contracts that were worth billions of dollars many of them giving given sole source to halliburton kellogg brown and root and other companies she stood up blew the whistle for that she paid for it with her job she was an outstanding public official she had the courage that was necessary to speak out we need to have similar courage we need to say to the president no this one hundred ninety four billion dollars is not demonstrating whether you support the troops all of us support the troops a substantial portion of this money is also going to go to contractors for which there has been no oversight there is the greatest waste and fraud and abuse i believe in the history of this country just in recent years under this administration's contracting out virtually everything much of its sole source very large no bid contracts i think this congress needs to weigh in on these issues first of all with respect to the value system a president who says we can't afford to cover three point eight more children who don't have health insurance with the bill that we fully pay for he said no we can't do that that's not important i'm not willing to sign that i'll veto it i'll stop it and then he goes to arkansas and says by the way i'm the fiscal conservative i'm going to shape everybody up and then the next day sends us one hundred ninety four billion dollars request give me some emergency money sixteen billion dollars a month four billion dollars a week none of it paid for piled on top of the debt  not a fiscal conservative where i come from that's not what they call those kinds of actions mr president all of us want this country to succeed all of us want this country to do well we need to put this country on track yes we need fiscal responsibility absolutely we need that we also need a foreign policy that makes some sense we need to change the course in iraq we need to describe the values here at home to the legislation we pass that represents the best of what america can do and yes that includes providing health insurance for our children that don't have health insurance so that young ladies young girls like to shine have a chance at life that they're there is so much debate in this country these days that a spotless rather than thoughtful at a time when we so desperately need thoughtful discussion about so many important issues to deal with america's future my hope is that in the coming weeks we all of can engage in some very thoughtful discussions about public policy and how to advance this country centrist all of us want the same thing for this country we want this country to succeed to provide opportunity expanded opportunity for people in this country but we face enormous challenges and those challenges will not be met and not be resolved by the kind of sloganeering that we hear too often these days and by by chaining ourselves certain public present the senator from connecticut a surprise i have some comments i want to make about the pfizer legislation but before i do that i want to before he leaves the floor to commend my colleague from north of north dakota i've joined with him on so many occasions in the past and then once again his eloquence and his passion about these issues is evident of this morning work together we've sponsored legislation on a number of matters  once again going to join him in these efforts he's raised here today and he's eloquently described a situation that most americans find chloral and again i the point he makes on the issue of supporting our troops  find it offensive that anyone would suggest because we disagree with the policy was somehow putting our soldiers and sailors marines and airmen at risk and that quite the contrary is true i would strongly suggest as my colleague north dakota does that the continuing policy in iraq  us less safe less the q are more vulnerable more isolated the world and in fact the very soldiers and sailors and airmen marines we admire for the work they're doing under the worst of circumstances are in greater jeopardy because of a continuation of this policy and so i'll be joining with him and others as we try to bring these two up to a halt not in two thousand and nine or two thousand and thirteen but hopefully this year so i commend him for his comments this morning this present for six years the president has demonstrated time and again that he doesn't respect the role of congress notice to respect the rule of law and it's the latter that i want to address this morning if i can because it's the rule of law which is what draws us all together here regardless of politics or ideology or party it is the rule of law  which we swear to uphold when we take the oath of office in this chamber is members do in the other chamber and certainly as the president united states does on january twentieth every four years for six years as president as you scare tactics  views to prevent the congress from reigning in his abuse of authority a case in point is the current direction this body appears to be headed as we prepare to reform an extended foreign intelligence surveillance act many of the president roll in the name of national security the bush administration has relentlessly focused our nation's resources and manpower on a war of choice in iraq the ill conceived war has broken our military squandered our resources and embolden our enemies the president's wholesale disregard of the rule of law has compounded the damage done in iraq and made our nation i think less secure as i said a moment ago and as a direct consequence of these acts we are far less secure far more vulnerable and certainly far more isolated the world today consider if you will beginning with the scandal in abu ghraib iraqi prisoners were subjected to inhumane militating acts by u s personnel charged with guiding consider guantanamo bay rather than helping to protect the nation by aggressively prosecuting the prisoners in guantanamo these individuals have instead become the very symbol of our weakened moral standing in the world who would have ever imagined consider the secret prisons run by the central intelligence agency in the practice of extraordinary rendition that allows him to evade u s law regarding torture considering this a consider if you will the shameful actions of our outgoing attorney general who politicized prosecutions in the u s attorney's office was more committed i i believe the serving as president of pointed him than the laws he was sworn to uphold as attorney general and consider if you will miss the present course the military commissions act the passage of which allows evidence obtained through torture they admitted into evidence denies individuals the right to counsel that i was in the right to invoke the geneva conventions and it denies them the single most important effective safeguard of liberty man has ever know version i believe they have severely weakened our ability to prosecute the global war on terror if for no other reason than they've made it harder if not impossible to build the kind of international support that we absolutely need in cooperation if we're going to succeed or if it's again stateless terrorists and second each has only been possible because the united states congress has not been able to stop the president is unprecedented spent in executive power although i might add some of his body and certainly tr whether or not these policies were explicitly authorized is decide the point in every instance congress has been unable to hold this administration to account for violating the rule of law and the united states constitution in each instance  publicans in the congress have prevented this body from telling this administration that a state of war is not a blank check and those aren't my words mr president those are the words of supreme court justice sandra day o'connor was nominated by president ronald reagan and today it appears that we are prepared to consider the proposal oppose renewal of the foreign intelligence surveillance act a law that whatever form it eventually takes along will certainly permit the bush administration to broadly eavesdrop on american citizens legislation is currently drafted that would grant retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that help this administration violate the civil liberties of americans and the law of this nation is to present while it may be true that the proposed legislation is an improvement over existing law it remains fundamentally flawed my view because it fails to protect the privacy rights of americans or hold the executive or the private sector accountable if they choose to ignore the law that is why  will not stand on the floor of the united states and be silent about the direction we are about to take i think it's time to say no more no more trampling on our constitution no more excusing those who violate the rule of law these are fundamental basic eternal principles have been around some of them for as long as the magna carta there and during what they're not is temporary and what we do not in time where our country is at risk to abandon my father served as executive trial trials that's the war criminals one hundred forty five and forty six what america accomplished at those historic trials was a foregone conclusion it took courage for joseph stalin and even a leader of great and noble as winston churchill wanted to simply execute the nazi leaders we didn't back down in this country mar believe that these men as terrible some of the worst violators in history recorded history of mankind they ought to have a trial we did not give in to vengeance then the issue before us today i would argue is the same as america stands for all that is still right with our world do we retreat in fear we stand for justice that secures america or do we act out of vengeance that we that suppose i'm well aware that this issue has become political some people's minds i believe that democrats were elected to help strengthen our nation elected help restore our standing in the world and i believe we are elected to ensure that this nation hears the rule of law and stop the administration dissolve on our constitution but the rule of law is not the province of any one political party or any candidate is the province of each and every one of us as american citizens and are watching our generation to make sure that we are safer because of its own viable provisions it's a present i know this bill hasn't been reported out of the judiciary committee yet but i'm here today because i've learned anything in my twenty six years in this body and particularly the last seven is that if you wait until the end to voice your concerns you may have waited too long that is why i've written even jordi later informing him that i want to direct in the effort to bring the legislation to the senate floor for consideration i hope that my colleague the chairman of the president bush is right about one thing the debate is about security but not in the way he mentioned as the president he believes they have to give up certain rights to be safer i believe the choice between moral authority and security is a false choice i believe it is precisely when you stand up and protect your rights that you become stronger not weaker as a nation the damage that was done to our country in nine eleven was stunning we all know it changed the world forever but when you start diminishing our rights as a people you compound that tragedy in my view when you cannot protect america in the long run if you fail to protect our constitution is that simple mr president history will likely judge this present harshly or as a war of choice and for fighting it with disregard  cherished principles but history is about tomorrow we must act today and stand up for the constitution and the rule of law is the present this is the moment at long last that is rise up to it i urge my colleagues to join me in this effort the american people will very soon be asked to support a type of a global warming cap and trade bill that legislation that is has already had a hearing in the environment public works and there are a couple  other bills in the background these bills come at a time when the science is overwhelmingly taking away the basis for alarm i'm going to use terms this morning alarmists are the ones who are you know mostly that in california and the the the far left extremists the hollywood elitists and others who feel that this is a great alarm the world's coming to an end the same ones who said another ice age was coming back in the middle seventy's and so we need to know what terms we're using in abundance a new peer reviewed studies analyses and data era discoveries in the past several months  prompted scientists to declare the fear of catastrophic manmade global warming and i'm using their terms now the science terms bites the dust in that sound the scientific underpinnings for alarm are falling apart i have address this subject on this for about a dozen times since two thousand and three but i want to talk today about something that is really kind of unprecedented and that is to talk only about things that have happened this year and mostly in the last seven months that people just aren't not aware of the media is very much opposed to the idea that there might be another side to the global warming story and so we're going to be talking about a tipping point in the law a different relationship than you've been hearing about it recently i will detail how the committed left wing scientists now believe the environmental movement has been co opted into promoting global warming as a crisis and expose the manufactured facade of consensus and the interesting thing to present is that everything i want to be using is going to be things that have happened just in the last in the last six months also addressed the economic factors of the so called solutions to global warming and how they will have no measurable impact on the climate but the so called solutions will create huge economic harm for american families and the poor residents of the developing world who may see development hindered by unfounded climate fears we're currently witnessing an international wakey of scientists who are speaking out in opposition of former vice president al gore the united nations the hollywood elite is a media driven consensus on manmade global warming we've the hottest year on record in the united states we've seen global average temperatures flatlined since one thousand nine hundred eight and the summer southern hemisphere cool in recent years and when they talk about global warming i've always conceded that the northern hemisphere is going through a warming period as it did it cooling period back in the seventy's but but the southern hemisphere actually has been getting been getting colder and this is all new president in the last last few months these are new developments but a sample of the new information coming out of that continues to debunk the united nations and former vice president al gore and the media promote a consensus on global warming but before we delve into these dramatic new scientific developments it's important to take note of our pop culture propaganda campaign aimed at children the most vulnerable of all of us in addition to gore's entry last year into a hollywood fictional disaster films other celebrity figures have attempted to jump into the again hollywood activist leonardo dicaprio decided to toss objective truth scientific truth out the window in his new scare fest the eleventh hour after real three fused to interview any scientists who disagreed with his dire vision of the future of the earth in fact his temperature of two hundred fifty degrees centigrade i guess these worst case scenarios pass for science in hollywood these days and also fits perfectly with the stated purpose of the film dicaprio said fiction film may see his intended bleak future it is dicaprio who has been scared by the bleak box office numbers as his film has failed to generate any significant interest children are now the number one target for glomming global warming fear campaign dicaprio announced his goal was to recruit young eco activists to the cause he said and this is a he said we need to get kids young  said this in september twentieth and in an interview with usa we can hollywood activists laurie david vice president gore's co producer of an inconvenient truth recently coauthored a children's global warming book with with cambria gordon for scholastic books in title the down to earth guide to global warming david has made it clear that her goal is to influence young minds with her new book when she recently wrote an open letter to her children stating we want you to grow up to be activists apparently david and other activists are getting frustrated by the widespread skepticism on climate as reflected in both the s and the u k or according to the latest polls it appears the alarmists are failing to given adults to believe their increasingly shrill and scientifically unfounded rhetoric so they have decided to go after the kids but david should worry less about recruiting young activists and more about scientific accuracy the science group found what it called a major scientific error in david's new kids book on page eighteen according to the to a science and public policy institute released on september thirteenth and i'm going to quote right now this very significant mr president the authors david and gordon present unsuspecting children with an altered temperature and c o two graph that reverses the relationship found in the scientific literature the min if you lay sion is critical because david central premise posits that c o two drives temperature yet the peer reviewed literature is unanimous that c o two changes have historically followed temperature changes just the reverse of the reality david has now been forced to publicly admit this significant science the error in your book a canadian high school student  maine east and community school issued a dire climate report quote global warming is a huge pending global disaster read the elementary schools report according to an article in the portland press her own on june fourteenth of two thousand and seven remember these are fourth graders issuing a dire global warming report and this is gender indoctrination in fear aimed at children is having an impact nine year old  was quoted in washington post april the sixth of two thousand and seven as saying i'm worried about it because i don't want to die the same article explained psychologist say they're seeing an increasing number of young patients preoccupied by a a climatic armageddon i was told by the parent of an elementary school last spring this is kind of interesting because we had a three hour discussion without gore and  afterwards after it was over a lady came up to me and she was from maryland and she had was a mother of a an elementary school teacher and she said that they were required to actually watch this thing this film about once a month inner child would come home and have nightmares about drowning in the films predicted scary sea level rise which has been done to my dad the hollywood global warming documentary aready tale ends with a child actor telling kids quote if your mom and dad buy a hybrid car you'll make it easier for polar bears to get around and quote unfortunately children are hearing the scientifically unfounded doomsday message loud and but the message kids are receiving is not a scientific one it's a political message designed to create fear nervousness in ultimately recruit them to liberal activism there are a few hopeful signs a judge in england has ruled the schools must issue a warning before they show gore's film to children because of scientific inaccuracies and sentimental much that's a court that's a judge in the u k before they see it they have to sign a disclaimer in addition there is a new kids book called the sky is not falling why it's ok to chill about global warming the book counters the propaganda from the pop culture that chart here is the this guy is not phony objective evidence based on science is beginning to crush hysteria my speech today in these reports revealed that recent peer reviewed scientific studies are totally receding the church of manmade global warming meteorologist conklin who launched a skeptical web site climate police dot com recently declared that global warming movement is falling apart all the while activists like former vice president al gore repeatedly continue to warn of a fast approaching climate tipping point i agree with with gore in this respect global warming may have reached a tipping point the mad made global warming fear machine cross the tipping point in two thousand and seven this this year and that's a reason today i'm just talking about things that are happening this year things really in the last six months i'm convinced that the future climate historians will look back at two thousand and seven as the year the global warming fears began to crumble is situation we are now in is very similar to where we were in the late one nine hundred seventy s when the coming ice age fears began to dismantle remember is newsweek magazine which is in the one nine hundred seventy s to proclaim that meteorologists were almost unanimous in their view that a coming ice age would have negative impacts it was also newsweek in one nine hundred seventy five which originated the eerie similar similar tipping point they called it a tipping point at that time the rhetoric they're using today except as an ice age at that time newsweek wrote on april twenty eighth one nine hundred seventy five about a coming ice age fears they say the longer planners delay the more difficult will they find it to cope with climate change once the results become room reality of course newsweek essentially retracted their coming ice age article twenty nine years later in october of last year two thousand and six you know people they don't see the retractions they just  hysteria of the moment today the greatest irony is that the u n and its media is climate hysteria grows louder as the case for alarm is in fades away while the scientific case grows weaker the political and rhetoric rhetorical proponents of climate fear are ramping up to offer hefty tax and regulatory solutions both internationally and domestic late to solve this so called crisis skeptical climat timothy ball formally of the university of winnipeg canada wrote about the current state of the climate change debate earlier this month and this is a quote i say to you mr president imagine basing a country's energy an economic policy on an incomplete unproven theory a theory based entirely on computer models in which one minor variable that c o two is considered the sole driver for the entire global climate system and just how minor is that man made c o two variable in that most fair meteorologists josephs jaleo first director of meteorology at the weather channel and former chairman of the american meat a logical society committee on whether analysis and forecasting explained in august how miniscule mankind c o two emissions are in relation to the earth's atmosphere this is what he said and keep in mind we're talking about a guy who was the first director of meteorologist in the weather channel former chairman of the american meteorological society said quote if the atmosphere was a one hundred story building our annual anthropogenic c o two contribution today would be equivalent to the the no the i'm on the first floor these problems that they tried to make us believe are happening are saying anthropogenic gases are the problem here is this time it is to quote totally debunked in this now there are four essential pulleys debunking climate fears debunking catastrophic manmade global warming fears can be reduced to four essential point you know what i'm going to do is read these points and go back and elaborate on each one of the first recent climate changes on earth lie well within bounds of natural climate v ability even the new york times concedes this un temperature data showed that the date the late twentieth century phase of global warming ended in one thousand nine hundred eight new data for the southern hemisphere show that is slightly cooler is underway by the way when we talk about i p c c that is the united nations are synonymous that's where all this stuff started a lot of things come from the united nations currently we're looking at a treaty called the of the sea treaty a start in the united nations not in the mayor america's best interest but the first thing we're going to do is talk about the recent climate changes on earth and we're talking about how they lie within natural variability the second thing we'll talk but is almost all current public fear of global warming is being driven by unproven and untested testable computer models fears of the future which now even the united nations concedes that the models these are computer models that's what's all this stuff is based on they do not account for half of the variability in nature and they are predictions their predictions are not reliable even the united nations agrees with that the third thing is debunking the the relationship th more c o two you have the warmer the world is that is very simplistic and it's untrue scientists are reporting in theory viewed literature the increasing c o two in the atmosphere will not have the catastrophic impact doom would would have predicted in fact climate experts are discovering that you cannot distinguish the human the impact of human produce greenhouse gases from natural climate variability that's extremely significant something that is really just come around in the last six or seven months and the fourth thing we'll talk about is consensus i hear so much about consensus that more things that come out of science where they scientists are saying wait a minute we were wrong in a minute i'll be naming names of scientists who were marching in the streets with al gore ten years ago who now say that they were wrong and so when you talk about that today those who are promoting this type of fear from the left they use the word consensus that climate change consensus exists when it does not exist instead the illusion that it does has been carefully manufactured for political financial and illogical purposes these four basic points from the foundation the rational evidence based approach to climate science that has come to be called global warming skepticism all right let's talk about the first one essential point number one that the earth's climate within is  is within the national variability on april twenty third two thousand and six the article in the new york times by andrew revkin stated and i'm quoting now from the new york times few scientists agree with the idea that the re spate of potent hurricanes european heat waves african drought and other weather extremes are in essence our fault manmade gases there is more than enough natural variability in nature to mask a direct connect connection scientists say the times essentially conceding that no recent weather events fall outside the range of natural climate variability and on a slightly longer timescale many scientific studies have shown the medieval and early warm periods were is warm or warmer than the earth's current temperature when there were no such away sions that were due to manmade gas there were no s u v s around at that time now in a year ago in february in new york coincidentally it was on a year on a day that set a new cold record for all time throughout history of new york a two thousand and six national academies of science as n a s i refer to report discredited the now infamous hockey stick temperature graph the study created by the i p c c that's the united nations the lead author was michael mann and what they did is they took the temperatures of the northern hemisphere and they showed that they were flat for a thousand years and they then then they started spiking in the twentieth century and causing them to go up that's the blade of the hockey stick here the problem is they didn't they didn't take into consideration such thing as the medieval warm period and the little ice age the national academy of sciences found evidence both the medieval warm period and the little ice age which we have in the lower char here it also expressed a little confidence in man's conclusion that the one nine hundred ninety s were the hottest decade of the last millennium and even less confident that one thousand nine hundred eight was the hottest year in fact we will show in a minute that they have now seven paper by berger of berlin's institute of meteorology in the peer reviewed science magazine challenge a two thousand and six study that claimed the twentieth century had been unusually warm the ivy league geologist robert gygax the chair of the department of earth and environment science at the university of pennsylvania noted on may twenty seventh again this is this year the extremely long geologic time scales reveal only about five percent of that time i'm quoting now has been characterized by conditions on earth that were so cold that the poles could support masses of permanent ice for most of them still quoting for most of the earth's history the globe has been warmer than it has been for the last two hundred years it's really been colder that's the the chair of the department of earth and environmental science at the university of pennsylvania these guys know what they're talking about came back with all these statements but i i can't figure out where they came from because that's not what the facts show even though grain that has been in greenland has been a poster boy for climate alarmists there greenland are cooler than the study published in june of two thousand and six issued for the journal of geophysical research and keep in mind that eighty percent of the manmade c o two came after these high temperatures eighty percent of the manmade c o two came after one hundred forty and that's a very interesting thing because if you look at it you would say with they increased by eighty percent after nine hundred forty that wouldn't that precipitate a warming period if they are right in terms of c o two affecting a warmer climate change that didn't happen what happened was that precipitated a cooler period actually colder and they thought another ice age was coming according to a july of zero seven a report from the environment public works committee on greenland the quote now recent research in two thousand and six found that greenland has been warming since the eighteen eighties but since one hundred fifty five temperature averages it greenland stations have been colder than the period of eight hundred eighty one through one hundred fifty five an five that's the time they say this crisis is taking place one two thousand and five study found greenland gaining ice in the interior higher elevations in thinning eyes at the lower elevation in addition often media promotes fears of nations scientists from gore from the hysterical liberal left the yet despite all of this evidence the media and many others still attempt to distort the science in order to create history is terrible fears about greenland environmental activists robert corell who works for the heinz kerry heinz kerry's foundation called the heinz foundation recently tried to steer alarmed by stating i spent four months on the greenland ice cap in a typical is typical of how many activists mislead the public back presenting utterly meaningless bits of information in avoiding inconvenient facts corelle is also on record for giving former vice president gore science fiction film two thumbs up for accuracy corona keep in mind he's paid by the heinz foundation choros assertion that a in a september aids u k guardian article the earthquakes triggered by reality take an unusual step of writing a letter to the u k guardian in this and i'm quoting now i also know that there is no evidence to suggest that these quakes are happening far faster than ever anticipated reale criticised the newspaper for presenting a sky as falling alarmist perspective by adding that it would take years of continued surveying to know whether anything here in greenland is accelerating toward the toward  catastrophe as the article featured by coral claims so much for greenland let's go to antarctica for more than for more evidence that earth's current climate is not changing is an alarming manner in which you may do look no farther than though we're talking about antarctica scientists monitoring ice in antarctica reported on october first that the ice has grown to record levels since one nine hundred seventy nine satellite monitoring began university of illinois polar research group website the southern hemisphere ice sea ice area has broken the previous maximum of sixteen point zero three million square climate over the world southern most continent shows that temperatures during the late twentieth century did not climb as had been predicted by many global climate models the study was conducted by david bromwich professor of atmospheric sciences in the department of geology geography and research with the byrd polar research center in ohio state university how inconvenient to post children of alarm is in greenland in antarctica trumpeted by al gore in the climate of fear mongers have decided not to cooperate with the computer models and there is much more evidence there are theories currently well within the natural climate variability the expert i p c c that united nations review review or in two thousand and seven dr can a car explain on august sixth of two thousand and seven these are all new scientific quote this is what he said he said in the southern hemisphere the land area mean temperature has slowly but surely declined in the past few years the city of blinis iris in argentina received several centimeters of snowfall in early july and the last time it further the sea surface temperatures over world oceans are slowly declining since the mid one nine hundred ninety eight according to a recent worldwide and alice's ocean surface temperatures so the southern hemisphere is is cooling i don't think many people disagree with that right now you know about global warming the last time i looked the southern hemisphere was part of the globe and it has been getting cooler over the past few years now the media will report on the historical perspective of green but the media is refusing to report about the north pole is that according to a two thousand and three study by arctic scientists igor pahlavi the warmest period of the arctic during the twentieth century was the late one nine hundred thirty s through the early one nine hundred forty s now we're talking about the northern news here many scientists believe that if we had satellite monitoring in the arctic back in and it may have shown less ice then today study found already temperatures following follow a pattern of increasing or decreasing energy from the sun now that's a unique thought that the sun is causing causing more in another two thousand and five study published in the journal of climate brian hartmann in goodwin dealer link to the one nine hundred seventy six pacific climate shift shift to a very significant one time shift upward in alaskan temperatures these evidence based scientific debunked fears of manmade warming in the arctic and in alaska the i have covered the latest science and on both polls the southern hemisphere where scientists are finding nothing to be alarmed about but now it's important to point out that the phase of global warming that started in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine has itself been halted since one thousand nine hundred eight nearly a decade now the words the warming temperature data that united nations relies on paleo climate scientist dr bob carter who has testified before the u s senate committee on environment but the worst this year noted this and i'm going to this is very significant quote him now the accepted global average temperature statistics used by the intergovernmental panel on climate change that's united nations show that no ground based warming has occurred since one thousand nine hundred eight oddly this eight year long temperature stability has occurred despite an increase over the same period of fifteen parts per million or four percent in atmospheric c o two second lower temp lower atmospheric satellite based temperature measurements if corrected for non percent per parts per million that's a seventeen percent increase yet it's true that one hundred ninety eight was influenced by the warming effect of particularly strong el nino but lest you think that dr carter to somehow misinterpret the data i have more evidence to bury any skepticism the met office that's the british version of our national weather service was finally forced to concede the obvious in august this year global warming has stopped after the u k met office a group fully entrenched in the global warming fear movement they were on the other side of this issue they were forced to knowledge this inconvenient truth in august they could not help with a way to continue stroking manmade climate alarm now how can you do that if you're saying that it stops the it is no longer warming this is how they did it their response was to promote yet more  projections for the future they now claim the climate computer models predict global warming will begin in earnest in two thousand and nine because greenhouse emissions will then overtake natural climate variability now what he's saying is that they're admitting that and they hurt them to do this that it's it's the warming has stopped but they say well it's going to start again in two thousand nine hundred being yet more unproven computer models of the future in response to inconvenient real world evidence based data is the only thing they have left their promoters of manmade climate doing but it is a bit refreshing to hear climate doomsayers be forced to utter the phrases like natural climate variability something they don't like to talk about never had meteorologists joseph conklin recently weighed in on these new developments conklin wrote in august quote a few months ago a study came out that demonstrated global temperatures have leveled off but  possibly admitting that this whole global warming thing is a farce a group of british scientists who could add that their real global warming will star in till two thousand and nine so here's somebody else talking about that this new claim that global warming will begin in earnest in two thousand and nine sounds like the reverse of the one nine hundred thirty s great depression slogan prosperity is just around the corner only in this instant the wording has been change a climate catastrophe is just around the corner and again i'm our the awkward halting of global warming since one thousand nine hundred eight despite rising temperatures is yet another indication that c o two levels in temperature are not the simple relationship many would have you believe another key development in two thousand and seven is the research led by meteorologist anthony watts of surface stations dot org which has revealed massive u s temperature collection data errors  suitable locations on hot black asphalt next to trash burned barrels decides he exhaust vents even attached to hot chimneys and above outdoor grills the data in approach taken by many global warming alarmist is seriously fog if the global day had data were properly adjusted for urbanization and stations citing the land use change issues were addressed what would emerge is a cyclical pattern of rises and falls with much less of any background trend that is all a quote by me or a lot meteorologists conkling adding to the further chilling warmer fears is the nasa data er year perhaps the most humorous reaction to this inconvenient correction came from nasa is james hansen who tried to minimize the data error in august when he wrote quote no need read further unless you are interested in temperature changes to a tenth of a degree over the in the united states now this comet is particularly outlandish given that hansen has become the media darling in recent years by hyping temperature differences the tenths of a degree to any he within earshot we now move to essential point number two the unproven computer models that are driving the climate for you it's hard to describe what a cuban theater model is but any time you're trying to make a projection in the future you try to have a model of that use that you can rely on instead of relying on data that is current in it is accurate even the new york times has been forced to acknowledge the overwhelming evidence that the earth is can to is currently well within natural climate variation is inconvenient reality means that all the climate doomsayers have to do is have to back up their claims of climate fears are unproven computer models predicting future do of course you can't prove a prediction of a climate in two thousand one hundred wrong today which reduces the models to speculating on what could or might or may happen fifty or one hundred years from now but a prominent u of the i p c c that's the un's fourth assessment report publicly admitting that climate models may not be so reliable after all he stated in this quote he said half of the variability in the climate system is not predictable so we don't expect to do terrifically well let me repeat the un scientists admitted half the variability in the climate system is not predictable in june another high profile un lead author dr kevin trenberth echoed says sentiments about the climate models by referring to them as nothing more than quote story lines now climate models made by unlicensed software engineers are of great concern to a lot of people leading scientific skeptic meteorologist dr a hendrick tenex a scientific pioneer in the development of numerical weather prediction and former director of research at the netherlands royal national meterological institute recently took the critique of climate computer models one step further ten ickes said in february of zero seven i quote i am the of the opinion that most scientists engage in the design development and tuning of climate models are in fact software engineers they're unlicensed hence unqualified to sell their products to society and quote media meteorologists our of the new zealand climate science coalition former profession professor of atmospheric sciences at the university of wyoming agreed describing models this way it's virtual science it's virtual reality our joked with most of these that quote most of these climate predictions are models they're about half a step ahead of playstation three i guess that's some kind of a video kids video game they're really not justified in what they're saying many of that  into the models are simply not right our said this in may of both seven in new zealand on a radio interview prediction simply can't happen the prominent scientists professors and also denounced computer models in august of two thousand and seven saying quote the rapid rise in sea level as predicted by computer models simply cannot happen they're not going to happen mourners  former director of both the university of alaska fairbanks geophysical institute in international r t research center told a congressional hearing in two thousand and six that highly publicized computer models showing the a disappearing has also question the reliability of computer models in that predict the future melting of the arctic and he says quote the main problem is that these models are often based on a relatively new climate data the thermometer has only been in existence for one hundred fifty years and information on temperature which is one hundred fifty years old does not capture the large natural changes called a who is participating in a norwegian national on global warming and slammed computer models as unreliable quoting him he said keep in mind we're talking about the professor emeritus of the of the institute for advanced study at princeton university these are these are smart guys society a member of the u s national academy of sciences and a fellow in the world science ross society of london dyson focuses on debunking climate models predictions of climate he says there's no more qualified than man i just described he says quote they do not begin to describe the real world that we live in the real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand it is much easier for a scientist to sit in an air conditioned building and run computer models then to put on a winter clothes in major what is really happening outside in the swamps and in the clouds that is why the climate model experts and believe in their own models the  gore was recently challenge to a bet on climate model accuracy the international internationally known forecasting pioneer dr scott armstrong of the ivy league a university of pennsylvania's wharton school that's wharton school of economics change challenge gore to a ten thousand dollar bet in june over the accuracy of computer climate computer model predictions armstrong and his colleague professor casting green of monash university's business and economic forecasting unit in australia found quote claims that the earth will get warmer have no more credence than saying it will get colder according to armstrong the author of long range forecasting the most frequently cited book on forecasting methods quote eighty nine principles of forecasting i p c c violated seventy two that's united nations violated seventy two of the eighty nine principles of h two thousand and seven article to teach he who has published over eight hundred scientific papers said quote the mathematical models used by the united nations do not correspond correspond to the criteria of the eighty ridiculed the united nations process as quote dangerous scientific nonsense gray the author of greenhouse delusion a critique of climate change two thousand and one explained on april tenth of two thousand seven again this year he said my greatest achievement was this second u n report where the draft of the had a chapter validation of climate models i commented that time since no climate model has ever been validated that the word was inappropriate they changed that word to evaluate fifty times and since then they have never predicted anything all they do is make projections and estimates that's that's his quote d in fact so much of climate computer modeling is based on taking temperature data from the very short timeframe to extrapolating it out over fifty or a hundred years or more and that coming up with terrifying scare scenarios there is often no attempt to look at the longer e g the geologic record but much of this type of modeling has about as much validity is my taking my five year old granddaughters growth rate from the last two years and using that to project her height when she's twenty five my projections may show that she will be twelve feet high at that time frame and yet that's exactly how many of these computer models fears of the future are generated for sea level rise estimates on high melt projects sions in places like places like green than in the arctic another location once again computer model predictions are not evidence i come now to the  earlier this month yet another report was was issued based on future computer models finding that polar bear populations are allegedly going to be devastated by two thousand and fifty due to global warming the report was issued as part of the u s fish and wildlife service consideration of listing the polar bear under the endangered species act this is a classic case of reality versus unproven computer model predictions the fish and wildlife service estimates that the polar bear population is currently from twenty thousand to twenty five thousand bears whereas in the one nine hundred fifty s and sixty's estimates were as low as five thousand to ten thousand bears we currently have an estimated four or five times more polar bears than fifty years ago two thousand and two u s geological survey of wildlife in the arctic refuge coastal plain noted that the polar bear populations may now be near historic heights biology's and wildlife experts are dimiss dismissing unproven computer models for polar bears and yet we still see the polar bears out there when feeling sorry for the polar bears imitate and not have as you go there some thirteen populations polar bears and all that to show that they're thriving many of murray increasing rapidly in two thousand and six canadian biologist dr mitchell taylor the director of wildlife research with the arctic government knew who to dismiss these fears with evidence based data on canada's polar bear populations home to two thirds of the world's polar bears in the west two thirds of the world's polar bears are in canada under his jurisdiction he says quote of the thirteen populations of polar bears in canada eleven are stable or increasing numbers they are not going extinct or even appear to be affected at present he added just to it is just silly to predict the demise of polar bears in twenty  based on media assisted hysteria in september taylor further debunked the latest report hyping the fears of future polar bear extensions he said i think it's naive in present issues referring a recent report on the us government warning that computer models were more dire to the future of the bears due to projected ice loss taylor also debunked a notion that less sea ice lower levels of ice a new survey will reveal that their populations have grown from in estimated eight hundred fifty bears to an estimated three thousand bears and despite the lower levels of by some of the bears major in this region  among the biggest ever on record data straight is crawling with bears quoting him again it's not safe to camp there they're fat the mothers have because they are in good shape he said according to the september fourteenth two thousand and seven article he added that's not that's based on a model that's just observation of reality other biologists who are equally dismissive of the computer model based fears biologist joseph wri who had the vertebrae zzz department of national joe is illogical collection in munich rejected climate fears and asserted any potential global warming may be beneficial to both humans and notion that the warmer world would lead to a mass species extinctions quote warming temperatures promote biodiversity the number of species increases exponentially from the regions near the po across the moderate latitudes to the quatre to put it this sickly the warmer the region is the more diverse art species botanist david bellamy this is kind of interesting is david bellamy used to be on the other side of this article he's a very famous u k environmental end the u k who was at one time marching down the street with hand in hand with al gore saying the world's coming to an end he says why scare the families of the world with tales the polar bears are headed for extension when there is good evidence that there are now twice as many of these iconic animals than there were twenty years ago bellamy asked on may fifteenth twice as many as there were twenty years ago  climate change people have no for their claims they have computer models with you not prove anything the bottom line is that the attempt to list the polar bear under the endangered species act is not based on any evidence that the polar bears populations are declining or in trouble it's based on computer models fraught with uncertainties and i hope we've made that point very clear the truth is that we clearly do not know enough about most of the polar bear population to make an argument for their list but what we do know is the population have dramatically increased over the past thirty or forty years and frankly listing the polar bear isn't about to bury their it's about trying to bring about climate change regulation using the most popular the most powerful development stopping law  the endangered species act polar bears are being used to achieve long sought left wing environmental regulatory policies now we had four essential points the third essential point is debunking the the relationship that the more c o two a warmer world the third critical point on global warming is to both and more the notion that the more c o two the warmer the world simplicity scientists and peer reviewed science is are increasingly revealing that catastrophic climate fears of rising c o two are simply unsustainable in may of two thousand and seven the father of meteorology dr reed bryson the founding chairman of the department of meteorology at the university of wisconsin dismissed the rising c o two theories very blue and he said you can go outside and spit and have the same effect is doubling carbon dioxide bryson is been identified by the british institute of geographers as the most frequently cited climatologist in the world climatologist dr ball recently explain that one of the reasons climate models are failing is because they overestimate the warming effect of c o two in the atmosphere paul describes how c o two is warming impacts diminishing this is a quote doctor there was a ball even if c o two concentration doubles or triples the effect on temperature would be minimal the relationship between temperature and c o two is like painting a window with climate scientist dr fred singer of the new book the name of the book is the unstoppable global warming every fifteen hundred years details how solar activity is linked to the earth or one one tenth of one degree centigrade of warming over sixty five years we've had no warming at all since one thousand nine hundred eighty eight remember too that each added unit c o two has less impact on the climate the first forty parts per million of human emitted c o two added to that mix fear in the one nine hundred forty s as much climate impact as the next three hundred and sixty parts per million perhaps the most inconvenient fact for the promoters of climate doom is the abundance of new peer reviewed papers echoing these many more scientists skeptical views keep in mind these are new studies debunking alarmism that they have been published in since ninety is since two thousand and seven that's this year i say to the distinguish occupier of the chair that we've been talking about just things that have happened in the last six or seven months a new peer reviewed study by brookhaven national lab scientist even schwartz accepted for publication in the journal of geophysical research finds that even a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide would not have the previous predicted dire impact on global temperatures in fact this paper implies that we have already seen almost all of the warming from c o two that mankind has put into that mix for the study is in agreement with the views of the sixty prominent scientists who advised the canadian prime minister to withdraw from kyoto in two thousand and six the sixty's scientists noted global climate changes all the time due to natural causes and the human impact still remains impossible to distinguish from this natural noise astronomer also agree he said quote along with dozens of other studies in the scientific literature this new study be allies al gore's claim that there is no legitimate scholarly alternative to climate catastrophes catastrophe indeed if this studies results are correct that alone would be enough to overturn in one fell swoop the united nations scientific consensus i say in quotes the environmentalists climate hysteria and the political pretext for the energy restriction policies that have become so popular with the world's environmental regular regulators elected officials and corporations the question is will anyone in the mainstream media notice this is all quote by the scientists a former harvard business dr lewis multi modal said a the new study has reduced proponents of manmade climate fears to playing the children's game to scare each other not just look at a sampling of the recent period study debunking there is the issue and there are many others i could talk about and i'm just going to name a few here this is all that happened in this year two thousand and seven first and august two thousand and seven peer reviewed study published in the geophysical research letters finds global warming over the last century link to natural causes assist and natural causes second september peer reviewed study counters global warming theory by finding carbon dioxide did not in the last ice age third and october of zero seven these are all it's all news to study by the danish national space center study concluded quote the and august peer reviewed study finds clouds may greatly reduce global warming six a new peer reviewed use peer reviewed quite often to show that these are documented these are studies that have been been reviewed by the peers by other scientists in found to be true a new peer reviewed study finds that the solar system regulates the earth's climate the paper authored by richard mackey is published aug seventeenth two thousand and seven in the journal of coastal night in april two thousand and seven study reveals the earth's climate seesawing during the last ten thousand years according to the swedes researchers at london university tent a new peer reviewed study on surface warming and the sol solar cycle published in geophysical research letters by scientists from the university of washington claims to be the first to document a statistically significant globally coherent temperature response to the solar cycle according to an august second two thousand and seven science daily article eleven in two thousand and seven when the alarmist un reduced its sea level rise estimate significantly reducing man's estimate impact on climate by twenty five percent meaning that a separate u n report this is kind of interesting because u n reports were the ones that they were basing all these catastrophic sea level rises on now they come back and they say no we we overestimated and they said that they are reducing man's estimated impact on climate by twenty five percent this happened just this year meanwhile a separate u n report in late two thousand and six found that are more damaging to the planet than all the c o two emissions from cars and trucks they said this is stating in a different way as those gases released behind livestock are actually exceed the total c o two that is in the atmosphere from all the cars in trucks and transportation segment sector twelve the un climate panel has accused of have been accused of possible research fraud and this is something that is brand new douglas j keenan a former morgan stanley and currently current independent mathematician medical researcher accused the u n fabrications and quote discoveries discovered that the sources used by the international panel of climate change that sealion have disregarded the positions of weather stations thirteen a study in the summer of two thousand and seven american association of petroleum geologists publication debunked global warming  study was done by geologists see robert stoop was entirely science under attack again i stress these research studies are but a sampling of the new science flowing in that is starting to overwhelm the fear campaigns of global warming alarmist i frequently get asked by warming activists whether i can name a single peer reviewed study disagreeing with your or the u says summary for policymakers as you can see the skeptics cup overflows with the recent scientific study everything i mentioned refutes them in addition to the above recent sampling of new studies i also refer to the more than one hundred scientific studies by more than three hundred co authors that are cited in the new book unstoppable global warming every fifteen hundred years by climate scientists dr fred singer and dennis avery the book details extensive research going back decade reveal how solar activity is linked to the earth's natural climate cycles again we're talking about sun but nasa a national natural variances geophysicist dr david deming associate professor of arts and sciences at university of oklahoma very proud of him he explained in january of this year well no one has ever died from global warming what kills people is cold not heat for more than one hundred fifty years it has been documented in the medical literature that human mortality rates are highest in the winter when temperatures are the coldest the perhaps the most scathing indictment the more c o two equals warmer world simplicity comes from the ivy league geologist this voted for gore in two thousand and says he would do so again he's a gore fan but he is appalled by gore's ignorance of climate science here's a guy who was in the want to vote for him but he says he's wrong and climate science is vote for him again he says to his undergrad s every single one of you knows more about global warming than al gore and again this is the this is the chair of the department of earth and environmental science at the university of pennsylvania a very fine and well known institute quote gore claims that temperature increases solely because more c o two in the atmosphere traps the sun's heat that's just wrong it's natural it's it is a natural interplay it's hard for us to say that c o two drives temperature it's easier to  the temperature that is controlling the c o two now this might be a bit technical but what guidance gak is saying here is that it is temperatures that control c o two this is a crucial to the understanding of the reason why the he said if we reduce the rate at which we put carbon into that mix fear it will reduce the concentration in the atmosphere c o two is just going to come back out of these reservoirs talk about reservoirs natural reservoir politically may be putting the final nail in the coffin of manmade global warming fears the global warming scare machine is now so tenuous that other liberal environmental scientists and activists are now joining the guiding gak in condemning the entire basis for manmade global warming concerns left wing scientists say that environmentalist co opted by global warming this is kind of interesting i'm going to be quoting dennis rand corp dennis rand court is a professor of physics in the environmental science research university of ottawa he believes the global warming campaign does does a disservice to the environmental movement he's a big environmentalist he wants to he wants to people to believe th concern about the environment he says but this is doing a disservice ranko wrote in february twenty seventh oh seven promoting the global warming myth trains people to accept unverified remote and abstract dangers in the place of true problems that they can discover for themselves by becoming directly engaged in their work place in by doing their own research and observations it trains people to think lifestyle choice it's choices in relation to c o two emissions rather than to think activism in the sense of exerting influence to change societal structures grandcourt believes that global warming will not become this including again will not become humankind greatest threat until the sun has its next hiccup in a billion years or more in the very likely scenario unlikely scenario that will still be around he also noted that even if c o two emissions were a grave threat government action in political will cannot measurably or significantly may or aid to global climate in the present world most significant however grandcourt a committed left wing activists and scientists that's who are talking about he believes environmentalist have been duped into promoting global and profit driven corporations and their cartel is backed by military might and that the global warming myth is a red herring that contributes to hiding this truth is my opinion activists who using any justification feed the global warming myth have affected the been co opted or at best neutralized global warming is strictly an imaginary problem for the first world middle class again this is a very well known the far left leaning scientist by the name of rand court finally rand court is certain that a in a warm world live prosperous there's no reason there's no no known case of a sustained warming alone having a negative impact on an entire population he said adding still quoting now as a general rule all life on earth does better when it's hotter compare ecological diversity and  east referring to at the poles and at the quatre indeed two thousand and seven has turned into the tipping point and substantiated fears and gross distortion of science by activists who have committed decades to trying to give in to the world faced a manmade climate crisis rand corp so eloquently describes the entire movement as one featuring unverified remote and abstract dangers perhaps the biggest shock to the global warming debate was the conversion of the renowned french g of geophysicist dr claude allegro from a believer in the danger dangerous man made warming  to a skeptic just last year this is a guy this doctor called allegro he was a former french socialist party leader in a member of both the french and the u s academies of science was one of the first scientists to sound global warming theories twenty years ago now he was the guy who was walking down the streets with al gore ten years ago holding hands saying the world's community and the heat is upon us now and we're going to have to do something and that was twenty years ago and ten years ago but he now says this is as of this year two thousand and seven the cause of climate change is unknown and ridiculed what he termed the quote prophets of doom of global warming in a september oh six article identified a former french socialist party leader and a member of the both the french and the u s academies of science he has altered more than one hundred scientific articles and written eleven books and received numerous scientific awards including the goldschmidt medal for the geochemical society of the united states he now believes the global warming hysteria is motivated by money the ecology of helpless protesting it's become a very lucrative business for some people i find it ironic that a free market conservative member of the united states senate such as myself and a french socialist scientists both apparently agree that sound science is not what is driving this debate it's it's money and i just say bravo for the growing scientific dissent is not easy for these guys who staked out a hard position just a few years ago to change their minds you don't have to believe me in october the washington point post staff writer juliet pron conceded the obvious writings that klein skeptics appear to be expanding rather than shrinking the these are the people in the climate scientists skeptics those individuals who believe that in of course the washington post is not known to be a very conservative publication and they wrote quote in late may michael griffin administrators of nasa which conducts considerable amounts of climate research told national public radio that he was not sure climate change was a problem we must wrestle with and that it was rather arrogant to suggest that the climate we have now represents the best possible set of conditions alexander cockburn is a maverick journalist who leans left on most topics lambasted the global warming consensus last spring on the political website counterpunch dot org arguing that there is no evidence yet that humans are causing the rise of global temperature these are liberals who are talking about in  fairly liberal publications left wing professor david noble of canada's york university has joined the growing chorus of disenchantment and disenchanted liberal activist noble now believes that the movement has and i'm quoting now hypes the global climate issue into an obsession noble wrote on may eighth essay is entitled the corporate climate to which details how global warming has hijacked the environmental left and created a corporate climate campaign which has diverted attention from the radical challenges of the global justice movement and quote the end finally i would say that world leaders like czech president vaclav claus and former german chancellor helmut schmidt have been outspoken in their climate skepticism schmidt said in june fourth of this year that fears of global warming and i'm quoting now were hysterical and overheated in called efforts to control the earth's temperature idiotic former vice president gore's biggest worry is now coming true previous committed believers in manmade global warming are now converting into skeptics after reviewing the new science well the new science is changing minds the the fifty sixty prominent scientists that advised the canadian prime minister i mentioned this before this very significant these are the guys in the in the nineteen nineties advise the prime minister the sixty scientists advise the prime minister of canada to sign onto to ratify the kyoto treaty a treaty we did not ratify now they have come back and said what the this down here that's very significant that we that we read this significant scientific advances that have been made since kyoto protocol was created many of which are taking us away from a concern about increasing greenhouse gases now if back in the mid one nine hundred ninety we knew what we know today about climate he otoh would almost certainly not exist because we would have concluded it's not necessary these are the sixty scientists that advised the prime minister earlier they've all changed their minds they're now advising him not to sign on to any successor treaty to the to the kyoto treaty the climate skeptics have welcomed many scientists from around the world into the fold recently the including the previously noted caught a leg tops senate dot gov for a full report and stay tuned for the upcoming blockbuster senate report detailing the hundreds of scientists who have spoken out recently to denounce manmade global fears the list is an ending  and it's larger every day these people i mentioned were all on the other side of this issue vocally with all their scientific background and they have now come over and they are skeptics now skeptics means that there's no conclusive proof to answer that it gases are causing climate change but that it's instead of that it's natural variances and within natural variability i would add when we come now to the last point a central point number four the debunking the consensus the fourth and final central point deals with how the media and the climate doomsayers insist that there is an overwhelming science consensus of manmade global warming that notion of a consensus is carefully manufactured for political financial and  purposes its proponents never explain fully what consensus they are referring to it is a consensus that future computer models were turned out correct is it a consensus that the earth is warmed proving that parts of the earth have been warming doesn't and does not prove that humans are responsible and may have here that to the casual observer that scientists promoting climate fears are in the majority that's because most of the media wants it want to believe this by the way this sells papers and you'll know that the evidence continues to reveal that this is an illusion climate skeptics the emerging silent majority of scientists receive much smaller shares the university funds they don't get money from the university research funds foundation funds you think the heinz foundation is going to give to somebody in this they agree with their with their hysteria the government grants they're not all plugged into the well heeled environmental special interest lobby here especially in part of this special interest lobby you get all these funds if you're not they will play with you on the other side of the climate debate you have a comparatively well funded group of scientists the activists who participate in the u n conferences receiving foundation monies international government support and also receive phoning media treat the number of skeptics at first glance may appear smaller but the skeptics are increasingly becoming vocal in turning the tables on the goliath that has become the global warming fear industry now this is very significant to keep components of the manufactured consensus as they keep saying fades under scrutiny we often hear how the national academy of sciences and american made a logical society issued statements endorsing the so called consensus view that man is driving global warming but what you don't hear is that both the n a s and the a m a has never allowed member scientists to vote on these climate statements because they know that if it doesn't come out this way they're not going to get the money that otherwise get essentially only two dozen or so members on the governing boards of these institution pruett produced the consensus statements it appears that the group governing boards of these organizations caved in to pressure from those promoting the politically correct view of the united nations and gore inspired science the canadian academy of sciences reportedly endorsed a consensus global warming statement that was never even approved by its governing board rank and file scientists are now openly rebelling james spann a certified meteorologist with am with a m s openly defied the organization when he said in january this is the american media logic of society  said in january that he does not know of a single t v meteorologist who buys into the manmade global warming hype in february a panel of meteorologists expressed unanimous climate skepticism in one panelist estimated that ninety five percent of his profession rejects global warming fears now this is big a survey of recent period studies in the results of this this is something you better get ready for because it's something that you don't know about yet as in been revealed yet  will in august two thousand and seven a comprehensive study of peer reviewed scientific literature from two thousand and four to two thousand and seven revealed and i'm quoting less than half of all published scientists indorse global warming theory and quote this is the study of the five hundred thirty nine total papers on climate change of the five hundred thirty nine total papers since two thousand and four only thirty eight or seven percent gave an explicit endorsement of the consensus that consensus being that manmade anthropogenic c o two methane gases are causing climate change only seven percent of these five hundred thirty nine total papers since two and fo in addition a september twenty six zero seven report from the international group institute of physics finds no consensus on global warming here's an exit excerpt and i'm quoting as world leaders gather in new york for a high level u meeting on climate change a new report by simm of the world's most renowned scientists urged policymakers to keep their eyes on the science grapevine arguing that the understanding of global warming is still far from complete the  p is also urging world leaders to remain alert to the latest scientific thought on climate change in quote in may the united nations special climate envoy dr gro harlem  lund bruton declared quote it's completely and moral even to question the un's alleged global warming consensus let's examine whether immorality plays a role in this process there frequently claims that the un i p c c summary for policymakers is the voice of hundreds or even thousands of world's top scientists but such claims do not hold up even to the lightest scrutiny according to this so she added press during the during the united nations summary for policymakers very important we get we get this the summary for policymakers after they have their their process is a publication that comes out then it's many months after that that scientists get to say something about the possible effects of global warming from increased flooding hunger drought and disease to the extension a species many of the so called hundreds of scientists who have been affiliated with the with the u n as expert reviewers are in fact climate skeptics there are other ones on our side skeptics like virginia state climatologist dr patrick michaels alabama state climatologist dr john christy new zealand climate researcher dr vincent gray former head of the geological this process that were excluded from talking about the summary the summary is put together by politicians an analysis released in september of zero seven on the united nations scientific review process by climate da ta analyst john mcclane revealed that the un peer reviewed process is an illusion a new study found that very few scientists are actively involved in the un's peer reviewed process the report contain devastating revelations to the central i p c c assertion that it is very highly likely that greenhouse gas forcing has been the dominant cause of the observed global warming over the last fifty years now what do the real scientists say about the statement according to the analysis by maclane the i p c c or united nation leads us to believe that this statement is very much supported by a majority reviewers the reality is that there is surprisingly little explicit support for the notion among the twenty three independent reviewers just four four out of twenty three explicitly and dorte endors that chapter with its hypotheses and one other endured only ace specific section moreover only sixty two of the i p c c three hundred eight reviewers commented on the chapter at all as only four  mankind for warming the past fifty years according to the recent analysis this analysis was echoed by u n scientists dr might have kind of car we talked about him before he's a retired environmentalist candidate scientists  in august thirteenth two thousand letter candidates are lashed out at those who seem who seem too naive really believe that the climate change science espoused in the intergovernmental panel on climate change that united nations documents represents scientific consensus nothing he said nothing could be further from the truth as one of the invited expert reviewers for the zero seven u n documents i have pointed out the flawed review process used by the united nations scientists in one of my letters i have also pointed out in my my letters that an increasing number of scientists are now questioning the hypotheses of greenhouse gas induced warming on the surface in suggesting a stronger impact of solar variability and large scale atmospheric circulation patterns on the observed temperature increase than previously believed it was chart with  occur concluded unfortunately the united nations or the i p c c climate change documents do not provide an objective assessment of the earth's temperature trends and associated climate change keep in mind the i p c c that's the united nations the ones who brought all this to us to start with writer malaria expert formerly of the dissenter for disease control and prevention participated in the past un i t c process and now cause the concept of consensus on global warming a sham writer a professor of entomology and tropical diseases with a pastor institute in paris had to threaten legal action to have his name removed from i p c c they that's how they make it seem that all the top scientists agree he said in two thousand and seven he said it's just not true hurricane expert christopher landsea know was that's anyway a national hurricane center was both an author and a reviewer of the i p c c s second assessment report this is back in one and then ninety nine hundred ninety five and the third assessment report in two thousand and one but resigned from the fourth assessment report after charging the un with playing politics with hurricane science lancy wrote a january seventeenth two thousand and five public letter detailing his experience with the un keep in mind he is he is one of the top scientists in hurricanes i am withdrawing from the was simply to dismiss my concerns he added i personally cannot in good faith continue continue to contribute to a process that i view as both being motivated by preconceived agendas and being scientifically unsound this is the most outrageous thing we've already said the put the policy the summary for policymakers that's the political arm that the scientific but the political arm the the i p c c more closely resembles a political party's convention platform battle not a scientific process during an i p c c summary for policymakers process the political delegates international bureaucrats squabble over the scientific wording of a phase or assertion steve mcintyre one of the individuals responsible for did bunking the famous original hockey stick theory and we talked about that a couple hours ago the temperature graph slam the i p c c summary for policymakers process says in january of zero four sorry of zero seven just just happened so and i'm quoting now steve mcintyre so the purpose of the three month delay between the publication of the p c c summary for policymakers and the release of the actual working group one is to enable them to make any necessary adjustments to the technical report to mass to match the policy summary unbelievable can you imagine what securities commissions would say if business promoters issued a big promotion and then the promoters made the necessary adjustments to the qualifying reports and financial statements so that they match the promotion words fail me that's quoting the scientists not me as you continue to scratch beneath the surface of the alleged global warming consensus more discoveries await alabama state climat dr john christy of the university of alabama in huntsville serves as the a un i p c c lead author in the two thousand and one that was the third assessment report and detailed how he personally witnessed u n scientists at tempting to distort the science for political purposes this is a quote from this guy keep in mind he was a participant a scientists who participate in that process he said i was at a table with three europeans and we're having lunch and they were talking about their role as lead authors and they were talking about how they were trying to make the report so dramatic that the united states would just have to sign the kyoto protocol that's what christie told c n n on may second two thousand and seven just this year former col state climatologist quote the same individuals who are doing primary research in the role of humans on the climate system are then permitted to lead the i p c s estimate there should be an outcry on this obvious conflict of interest but to date either few recognize this conflict or see that since the recommendations of the i p c c fit their policy and political agenda they chose to ignore this conflict in either case scientific rigor has been sacrificed and poor policy and political decisions will never ever and everybody follow this is dr pilkey he added we need recognition among the scientific community the media and policymakers that i p c c process process we've been talking about from the scientists to the bureaucrats to the delegates in all the way many of the world leaders involved in it in what is this motivation of these distortions i'm often asked you know if we if we know that the cost is going to be so great and we know that the science is now flawed and people are now waking up to what is the motivation for this i would have to say that there's a lot of motivation overseas on things like this it was former french president  thousand he said say stating that kyoto really wasn't talking about climate change he said kioto represents quote the first component of an authentic global governance these growing critics of the the  process lawson called for the abolishment of the un i p c c process he said quote i believe the i p c c process un process is so flawed and the institution it has it has to be said so close to reason that it would be far better to thank it for its work that is done close it down and transfer all future international collaboration on the issue of climate change into something else as the same that he made  excluded from key roles in the politicized i p c c process and largely ignored by the media unless they are being demonized as flat earth ers or accused of being part of a well funded industry campaign but in reality it is the climate fear peddlers that enjoy an overwhelming funding advantage over the skeptics since the late one thousand eighty's when global warming fears rose out of the scorch frost of the one nine hundred seventy s coming ice age scare the same ones that international organized effort of tens of billions of dollars have been spent promoting the warming fear gravy train paleoclimate science bob carter estimates proponents of global warming fears worldwide have received over fifty billion dollars from international sources and the united states over the last two decades this is what he said he said quote in one of the more expensive ironies of history the expenditure of more than fifty billion billion dollars a year on research directly or indirectly related to global warming adding to these totals of funding manmade climate fears are large foundations like the hound heinz foundation international governments united nations the world wide universities the pew foundation is individuals like billionaires richard branson and george soros in fact if you want to get a study funded funded today on anything from suicide to butterflies researchers are finding that they better somehow link the issue of global warming it will increase your chances of securing funding automatically james spann is a meteorologist certified by the american meteorological society he suggests scientific objectivity is being compromised by the big cash grab for money flowing to proponents of manmade climate fears previously noted that nasa is james hansen received two hundred fifty thousand dollars  bordered by the hounds foundation you know it's kind of interesting i had a one of my favorite liberals and i think is kind of the darling of the left on see and is miles o'brien we're fellow pilots we have a lot in common so i enjoy being on his program i've been on many times and he asked me one time last time around and he said well how do you stand how do you respond to the assertions that that nasa is james hansen made these statements and they must be true and i said because he was given two hundred fifty thousand dollars in cash  by the hand hines foundation and i think he'd say anything they wanted him to say spann explained billions of dollars of grant money are flowing into the pockets of those on the manmade global warming bandwagon i'm still quoting span no manmade global warming the money drives this is big money make no mistake about it always follow the money trail and it tells you the story and that was what man wrote in january of this year the imbalance of money between the promoters of climate fears and skeptics is so large that one two thousand and seven department of agriculture grants for twenty million dollars to study how farm odors contribute to global warming exceeded all that many of their groups skeptical of climate fears alleged they received from exxon mobil over the past two decades the money is clearly coming from the far left environmental extremists and from the hollywood elitists later this fall my e p w committee will also release a report detailing the hundreds of scientists many of them affiliated with the u n intergovernmental panel on climate change that's un for that process who have spoken out recently to oppose climate arm isn't the report will feature this scientists many of them who have finally had it with claims that all scientists agree in their own words the report will be complete with the scientists biographies and web links for future reading keep in mind that in addition to the names that we've identified today look at them those of those are of the scientists now not even a complete list this new research and hysteria created by the un in by gore in the media have prompted frustrated scientists to finally fight back in the name of rational approach to science climate rationalist and or skeptics do not need to engage in smoke and mirrors to state their case and we will be offering the world a chance to read and decide for themselves and unfiltered from the increasingly activists and shrill  these scientific developments of two thousand and seven are the result of years or decades of hard work by scientists skeptical of manmade climate fears finally reaching the point where we can watch the alarm crumble is very satisfied and all these scientists have come up with the same response despite the massive scientific shift in favor of skeptics proponents of climate figures in our history singly attempting to suppress dissent by skeptics gore's live earth concert which was a dismal failure i might add that he had in july environmental activists robert f kennedy jr said of climate skeptics he said this is treason and we need to start treating them as tra and i you know i've been personally attacked by by anderson cooper is taking place right now even this week calling me every kind of name all kinds of threats this is what you people say why don't more members of the house and the senate tell the truth about climate change this is the reason they were subjected to i've got a big family at home has to watch all this heidi cullen of the weather channel you know and she's a lovely girl but she called for denying certification she called on the american society of meteorologist to deny certification of any of the scientists or any of the weather channel people or the meteorologist who don't agree with her and in august nasa as an insane alarmist james hansen we've already talked about he called skeptics deceitful court jesters this is the same activists hansen who conceded in a two thousand and three issue of national and natural science that the use of extreme scenarios to dramatize global warming may have been appropriate at one time to drive the public's attention to the issue a disturbing admission by james hansen in other words he's saying exaggerated scare people other climate fear promoters call for a nuremberg status style trials for those expressing manmade global warming skepticism in september the virginia state virginia state climatologists skeptical of global warming lost his job after a clash with governor patrick michaels claiming that he was censored by the advocates for climate change alarm are so confident why are there so free trade of the debate why do they resort to such low browed name calling intimidation the reasons obvious the latest scientific findings are that climate fears and prompting many global warming activists to try desperately to desperate measures to silence it of a when do they agree the debate to the scientific thanks they alarmists lose lose badly in march this is really significant in march of this year an audience of several hundred in the new york city area were persuaded to the view that global warming was not a crisis following a public debate with scientists on both sides  what we're saying here is we had several hundred people just off the street people in new york city most of them when they were surveyed at the beginning of this all the like seventy five percent of them said it was we believe that manmade gases are causing climate change then after that debate took place it reversed and the majority of them said that wasn't true so they people when they hear that if a and listen to the science on both sides is a wake up call when i became chair of the environment public works committee that was four and a half years ago i vowed to make science as one of the court  cornerstones of my agenda to ensure that policy is based on sound science and i as i continue as a ranking member i have continued this go i think it's probably fair to say that no other federal legislator has devoted so many hours addressing congress about the science of climate change i spent this time because sound sound policy requires understanding and what climate policy direction we choose will have an enormous consequences not only on our nation but for the world i'd like now to address a question that i'm asked repeatedly senator inhofe what if you're wrong in the alarmists are right is it better to adopt a carbon restrictions to stop carbon dioxide emissions just in case my answer is always the same quote if i'm right and there's no response to that but let me address their question let's assume for a moment that the alarmists are right which of course they're not but let's assume that they have for the sake of discussion that there is still makes absolutely no sense to join kioto or any successor treaty or to adopt climate restrictions on our own now only does it not make economic sense but is not make environmentally safe and then explain that first going on the the carbon diet for us we do nothing but  climate change to avert climate change after the united states signed a the kyoto protocol in one thousand nine hundred seven is never ratified we signed it al gore's own scientists this was al gore it happened to him when he was vice president at a state he had his own scientists tom wigley of the national center for atmospheric research calculate he said let's assume that we signed onto the kyoto treaty this is back in one thousand nine hundred and if all other developed nations not china original european union countries only two are on track to meet their targets one of these is great britain and they're starting to increase their the emissions again not decreasing similar calculations have been done to estimate other climate bills the climate change stewardship act was defeated thirty eight to sixty last year in this chamber would have only reduced the temperatures by zero point zero three degrees celsius and other build modeled on the national commission on energy policy report would have only reduced temperatures by zero point zero zero eight degrees celsius that's right that's less than one percent of one degree now i think when we come to the significant part of this and that is the lesson on economics the high costs it would be born under carbon constraints are an justifiable to achieve them is to go temperatures that we've been talking about reductions and that if alarmists are right about the science how much more and justifiable would it be if i is one of the twentieth century's one hundred most influential builders yet just this month time named the one thousand nine hundred nine model t car the worst environmental product of the century time knowledge is that the car super charged the american economy and put it on its wheels but states that's just the problem isn't it the consequences keep piling up it says in short time now endorses the view that our world would be better off if we had never advanced technology advanced technologically and if we were still dependent upon the horse in the car as we were in one thousand no night now most people don't agree with such extremist views but at the core of the question is shouldn't we do something just in case that's a question they ask the same calculus is it worth what  ford had not created the model t out of the fear of unknown consequence just in case it isn't just that our major cities don't each have to deal with the sanitation disposal issues of tens of millions of pounds of horse one of the many real environmental problems a century ago that the automobile eliminated extended to every aspect of life when the model t first rode off the assembly lines near the beginning of the twentieth century the average americans life expectancy was fifty three years old today the average americans life expectancy is seventy eight years old or twenty five more than it was a century ago and we're not just living longer lives but healthier and more secure lives the average americans real standard of living climbed from five thousand three hundred dollars a year in one hundred thirteen to thirty three that thousand dollars a year in two thousand and five that's an enormous jump and the carbon based society is responsible for that advances in medicine food production  building construction services in the manufacture of clothing furniture and other goods have all been made possible by the mobility brought about by the transportation sector and electricity provided by power plants the advances over the last century are not simply interesting is towards facts they show us not only why we are a prosperous nation but a roadmap to process prosperous future threats to prosperity have real consequences and for how well and how long akins will live whatever actions we sense of the senate passed ninety five to nothing a resolution that the united states should not be a signatory to any kind of a a treaty that reduced that had the result costing a lot of money for united states and did not involve the developing nations in other words something is involved in the developed nations that left mexico and india and china in these countries alone and that it was passed ninety ninety five to nothing similarly  sense of the senate meant men that passed in two thousand and five resolved that the u s should address global warming as long as it will not significantly harm the united states economy and encourages comparable action by other nations that our major trading partners and key contributors to global emissions neither the kyoto protocol nor a single bill before congress meets these criteria not one they range from costly ruinous but they all fail to meet the requirements of byrd hagel and bingaman than three hundred billion dollars a year now that equates out to an encrease of taxes to the american family average family of four of two thousand seven hundred dollars a year for every family of four in the united states the estimate costs comply to comply with carbon legislation proposals in the united states would be unreasonable the n c e p a approach would do nothing to lessen global warming even if even according to the alarmists but according to the  a it would still cost more than one hundred eighteen thousand american jobs simply to make that symbolic gesture as i recall from our debate say to the the man in the chair the highest job loss was in actually in the state of pennsylvania if we had passed that bill two years ago according to the mit study as it every study than the one we just talked about the sanders boxer bill would cost the energy sector consumers an amount equal to four thousand five hundred dollars per american family of four now that this is a bill that is now pending in the in the environment public works committee the same study found the lieberman mccain bill that would cost consumers three thousand five hundred analysis of the labor in the cain bill or the moon warmer or bill shows it is affordable although e p a fines that fuel will increase by twenty two percent he calls feel impacts pretty modest now activists inside the beltway may think big jumps in gas prices not a big deal out of people living in the real america would agree with that what i feel americans realize is the impact of these policies would not be evenly distributed they congressional budget office recently look at the approach taken by most global warming proposals in congress known as cap and trade cap and trade the c o two emissions that would place a cap on carbon emissions allocate how much everyone could in it and then let them let me quote from the c b l report regardless of how the allowances were distributed most of the cost of meeting the cap on c o two emissions would be borne by consumers who would face persistently higher prices for products such as electricity and gas those prices would it would increase would be aggressive in those price increases would be regress even that poor households would bear and a larger burden relative to their income th wealthier households with i think about that even relatively modest bills would put enormous burdens on the poor the poor already face energy costs much higher as a percentage of their income than the wealthy while most americans spend about four percent of their monthly budget on heating homes and energy needs the poorest one fifth of americans spend nineteen percent of their budget on energy and why would we adopt policies which disproportionately force the poor and working show that no that's right these right here represent the last four of the largest taxes increases in this country this year right here thirty two billion dollars tax increase was the clinton gore tax increase of two thousand nine hundred ninety three remember that increase marginal rates corporate rates effected all of the capital gains tax and all that i came down here stood at this podium it was an outrage trying to fight that tax increase of one thousand nine hundred three by contrast the kyoto protocol would actually be ten times greater so it's a tax increase ten times greater than largest tax increase in recent history comics actually caps would also fundamentally alter the way we live take the case of the cement industry and its relationship to our daily lives  experiencing a tremendous growth in demand and with that demand new jobs are created is essential to the maintaining and revitalization of our aging infrastructure highways bridges water and sewer systems are built with cement already our ability to meet our infrastructure needs is under tremendous stress to the high costs well i think we understand that and i have several things put in as a part of the record talking about how that's going to hurt the economy but i would like to move on here and say that many times this year china surpassed the united states as the world's largest emitter of carbon only six years ago it was estimated that china's emissions would still lag those of the united states in two thousand and forty two thousand and forty china's emissions growth is explosive even climbing up were just to put things in perspective the united states did not build a single new coal fired power plant in the last fifteen years up until two thousand and six not one although there is now some efforts underway to change that  by comparison according to the new york times china last year build one hundred seventeen government approved coal fired power plants a rate of roughly one every three days according to the official figures so they're going out one every three days and we none in fifteen years you talk about jobs in the main motivator that that's why we're going to be facing indians emissions increase are not far behind china and brazil is not far behind them the fact is that these countries do not curb their rapidly accelerating emissions growth then embrace the a carbon diet in sluggish economy economic growth by developed countries will accomplish nothing moreover many of the carbon reductions that she threw most manufacturing jobs in developing countries are simply emitted elsewhere as jobs are created to make the same products in countries that don't ration energy the u s emissions as a measure of productivity are far lower than china seem at manufacture it is a perfect example of every job sent there when crease emissions not and what we're talking about here is they don't have all the safety terms the the technologies in china that we have to lower the emissions and so if we force them overseas to china in the sions will have a next net increase china is growing at such a rate that even if the united states europe and the rest of the developed world were to eliminate every turn of its emissions and become zero meters countries within a few decades clearly ruinous gold emissions would still be higher than today because of rapidly growing emissions in the developing world we're talking about china and other countries well some would say we simply need to educate the developing countries but the fact is they they understand all too well that there are more important priorities as the general director general of the china's office of global environmental affairs said in october ninth two thousand and six you cannot tell the people talking about his chinese people who are struggling to earn enough to eat that they need to reduce their emissions the secretary of india's environmental ministry expressed the same sentiment when he said removal of poverty is the greater immediate imperative in in these views are consistent with the findings of the copenhagen consensus in two thousand and four a danish environmentalist who believes global warming is a serious problem but together eight of the world's leading economists including four nobel laureates and thirty specialists many of the world's leader in problems they analyze the world's biggest issues in rank them on a cost effectiveness of directing societal wealth or resources toward these problems of the seventeen issues studied hiv aids devastate our economy as well as those that will cost jobs simply to make symbolic gestures to the far left i believe such measures will do the defeated because the approach is politically unsustainable we're seeing the first signs of that in europe right now even the alarmists were if they're if they were right on the science which they're not they're commanding control approaches so the seeds of their own failure as long as their policies put national economies in the crosshairs they  opposition eventually collapse in their own way stabilising emissions cannot happen in twenty forty sixty years because our world infrastructure is built on fossil feels it will continue to be so for a long time to come the power plants in our face other facilities being built now and in the future carbon for half a century once are complete simply the technology does not exist to cost effectively power the world without emitting carbon dioxide and i and many others reject who reject the climate alarmism or ineffective the inexpensive solutions will block efforts to intimate a mandatory carbon restrictions i found it unfortunate unfortunate that so many politicians and climate advocates focus on trying to resurrect a mandated mandatory carbon policy in the face of its demonstrated failure in practice in the in the countries that have adopted it in the process they are ignoring the best path forward is only one approach so far that i've seen that will work is called the asian percivale partnership on clean development in climate why is this because this approach serves multiple purposes it will reduce there are some real pollutants out there so it is not a  fertilizer but there are real pollutants out there socks knocks mercury this by working with our partners the asian pacific partners we can expand our energy supply increased trade along with these other goes reduce greenhouse gases as a byproduct along with reducing real real pollutants such as sachs not to mercury others might put this list together differently in terms of priority but my point is is that the asian pacific partnership meets the criteria for success is a politically and economically sustainable path forward that addresses multiple issues in the context of the relation to other issues perhaps other approaches in the future will meet this criteria as well but this partnership is currently the only one that does any international has become a cottage industry in this country and many others but a growing number of scientists in general public are coming around to the idea that climate change is a natural in that there is natural and that there is no reason for alarm it is time to stop pretending that the world around us is headed for a certain doom and a chiodos style policies will save us when in fact the biggest danger lies in these policies themselves as i've noted new studies continue to pile up debunking alarm debunking the very foundation for so called solutions to warming i know this been a long long speech but i just want the real people not not the money driven liberals and the hollywood elitists but the real people who are out there raising their families and working hard you during the past yeah i think that during the last two hours i've identified my name the hundreds of scientists who are al gore followers and in the past and who are now skeptics who realize this whole issue is punishment by the rich left extremists because of this case and i have twenty kids and grandkids that are going to be living in this world you know i don't want them to have to pay a tax that is ten times greater than the largest tax increase in modern history for something that is based on flawed scientists and contrived science is for then we're doing it with that i yield the floor i suggest the episode where the clerk will call the ro wants to be heard and i'd be very glad to release the floor at that time i i think it's very important that we realize something else is looming out there something that's coming in i have to criticize my own administration i am a conservative republican but i look and i see the thing that is called the law of the sea treaty law of the sea treaty is coming at it again this is started back in the sixty's in the seventy's during the reagan administration reagan was able to stop it what it does in just one sentence him is to relinquish our sovereignty over seventy percent of the world to again another united nations super agency a super agency that will actually have a billet he to tax globally during the last two hours i've been talking about the problems we're having with the hype the global warming debate it all came from the united nations that's where a lot of these things come from and the united nations is less and less accountable to any of the member countries than they were at one time one of the things that we have done and i've been personally is every time we've had a problem that we're the united nations coming out with a policy that is not in the interest best interest of the united nations the united states since united states pays for twenty sent of the budget of the united nations i have been able to pass a resolution that says that if you don't use the united nations don't back down from this program that we will that we will hold back fifty percent of your dues or something like that it's only leverage we had course their outreach to people running the united nations they want to be accountable to anyone and so one of the reasons the motivations of the law of the sea treaty is to stand is to set up this super agency that does have taxing powers global taxing powers and their goal has been stated that if they are able to pass this so that they can run the united nations on a global tax then they don't have to be accountable to anyone and here we are paying for fifty four twenty five percent of it now that we wouldn't be at that time it be paid for independently i really believe that of all the bad things that are coming from this treaty that that's probably the worst thing i think that's the motive of many of them are there but there are many other problems with it you know by giving up the the the authority over seventy percent of the earth's surface has some huge military risks put his new position where if we in the united states know that there's a ship on the high seas that has a terrorist of board or it has a weapon of mass destruction we could no longer stock and search and try to seize on the high seas and we couldn't do it because it states are only for conditions under which we could stop a ship none of them have to do with national security now it does say that that it should not affect the military but there is no defining terms of military efforts instead that would be determined by this new high court that would be established this in this this high court that we be established by the united nations so i would only say to those and i know there are many people in this chamber and of course here it is coming from our administration the republican administration the military says they want to i really question that when i go back study what happened during the eighty's and see what the real consequences could be but is now a popular thing and they're saying well we've made all the corrections to work everything that is bad now if ronald reagan were here he would sign off it that's not true  had five objections to it not one of the five has been made has been met so i would suggest that we have something very serious coming i don't know why it is that the majority of members of this body this is think that no idea is a good idea and this is made by some big multinational organization that nothing is good in this it's something that addresses the problem from a multinational perspective i have to ask myself when i go back to my state of oklahoma they asked me what is ever happened to sovereignty in america and i have to say i don't know that we're going to try to keep as much as possible the best way to keep them most of the from the roading today is to not ratify the treaty called the law of the sea treaty and there's going to be a tremendous effort for us to get a number of senators some as you know objection so order i move to proceed h r three hundred sixty three senate cloture motion to the desk or for cloture motion with the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule twenty two of the standing rules of the senate are hereby move to bring to close the debate on the motion to proceed to counter number four fifty h r thirty nine sixty three children's health insurance program term of three years this is bill frist who work with us here in the senate for twelve years was majority leader and somebody i work with very closely he's a very fine man great reputation he is entered public service for the right reason in the he was a prominent surgeon he was a man who was one of the pioneers and transplant surgery and i had i have such fun memories of working with him we had our battles but he was always a gentleman and i am wishing well with this job i know he will do a very good three fifty seven designating the week of november eleventh through november seventeenth two thousand and seven as national veterans awareness week without objection the senate will proceed to the measure i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to the  four five without objection the clerk record resolution three forty seven designating may two thousand and eight as national be bear aware and wildlife stewardship month counter number four forty five senate resolution three forty six expressing heartfelt sympathy for the victims of the devastating thunderstorms that caused severe flooding during august two thousand and seven in the states of illinois iowa minnesota ohio and wisconsin and for other three on monday october twenty ninth