Ranking Member Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) issued the following statement on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) recent announcement that 2012 was the warmest year on record for the contiguous United States.
“This data from NOAA confirms what many of us already know too well – our world is getting warmer. According to NOAA, 2012 was part of a long-term trend of hotter, drier, and potentially more extreme weather for the country. While this report only addressed temperature records in the U.S., it speaks to the wider phenomena of global climate change.
Every new data point serves to highlight the folly of putting special-interest politics and partisanship before science and fact. The climate is changing. It is time for both sides of the aisle to accept the evidence, recognize the overwhelming scientific consensus, evaluate the risks of continued inaction, and come together to have meaningful discussions about climate change.
Though it may be too little and too late, policies focused on prevention of deeper, more devastating climatic shifts should still be our primary objective. Therefore, we must act boldly and we must act swiftly. Policymakers also have a responsibility to do everything that we can to ensure that communities, the agricultural sector, and other critical industries can adapt to the costly impacts of a changing climate.”
Hello Lauren:
Ruining the Earth:
regarding above article by Congresswoman Bernice Johnson:
I have personally accepted global warming as a reality since the
1970′s. I remember when the cry first went out and there
was an effort to switch deodorants and other products from
aerosol dispensers to more environmentally friendly methods.
Because we were told that hydrofluorocarbons were causing a
hole in the stratosphere.
Today we are seeing the manifestations of how deforestation,
and pollutants in the air and water by mankind are
ruining the physical earth.
However the Bible has already told us these things would
happen. Jehovah says he will put an end to those ruining
the Earth (the main application here is regarding morality,
but also refers to physical earth as well). In other words
Jehovah God will step in on his own timetable and prevent
man from completely destroying the physical earth which He
created for humans and animals to live on forever. (Bible
References: Isaiah 45:18; Revelation 11:15-18).
Thank You,
Ms Joy Haddocks James