We just heard Christie Todd Whitman actually say it's not open to debate. It's not open to debate. You know, I followed this issue for many, many years both from the Senate and from the White House Climate Change Task Force. The National Academy of Sciences just came out with a study saying global warming is happening, it's happening at a faster rate than we previously thought. We are seeing warming now.
Carbon is the most intense greenhouse gas that's responsible for global warming pollution.
That is the issue that the UN is working towards under the UN Framework on Climate Change. President Bush himself said global warming is the most important environmental issue facing us. We've all acknowledged carbon is the major gas behind this, and that is why the president had this policy in his campaign commitment. Well, yes, I think a trillion or trillions of dollars solution to what is still a theory of a possible billion dollar problem is not wise. The precautionary principle, which says let's prove something is safe before we use it, let's apply the precautionary principle to this treaty.