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BOXER RINGS THE BELL ON CLIMATE CHANGE: Sen. Barbara
Boxer took to the Senate floor and invoked the Oklahoma tornadoes in
her speech on global warming. “This is climate change,” she said. “This
is climate change. We were warned about extreme weather. Not just hot
weather. But extreme weather. When I had my hearings, when I had the
gavel years ago. —It’s been a while — the scientists all agreed that
what we’d start to see was extreme weather. And people looked at one
another and said ‘what do you mean? It’s gonna get hot?’ Yeah, it’s
gonna get hot. But you’re also going to see snow in the summer in some
places. You’re gonna have terrible storms. You’re going to have tornados
and all the rest. We need to protect our people. That’s our number one
obligation and we have to deal with this threat that is upon us and that
is gonna get worse and worse though the years.” She also plugged her
own bill, cosponsored with Sen. Bernie Sanders that would put a tax on
carbon. “Carbon could cost us the planet,” she said. “The least we could
do is put a little charge on it so people move to clean energy.”
— Oklahoma was hit with two rounds of tornados — Sunday and
Monday — with the death toll expected to continue to climb as officials
comb the wreckage. The Oklahoman: http://usat.ly/13GEu5o
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