Pelosi Statement on National Climate Science Report

WASHINGTON, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi released
the following statement on a report issued today from the United States Global
Change Research Program, a joint scientific venture of 13 federal agencies and
the White House, on the domestic impact of climate change:

"This national climate science report confirms the conclusions of credible
scientists around the world: climate change is occurring now, it is affecting
our lives, and we cannot ignore it.

"The impact of the climate crisis on the United States and around the world is
becoming increasingly severe. We face the threat of droughts in the Great
Plains and water shortages in the Southwest, and extreme heat and declining
air quality in the Northeast. We can and must address this challenge.

"I recently saw the challenges of climate change firsthand in our own country
when I led a congressional delegation to China and we stopped in Alaska. We
heard from Native Alaskans about villages eroding into the sea, melting
tundra, and changes in the health and number of salmon that many villages have
relied on as their primary food source.

"Climate change is a global security issue, an economic issue, an
environmental health issue, and it is a moral issue. Congress is hard at work
on a comprehensive solution to global warming that will cut pollution, create
new clean energy jobs, save consumers billions of dollars in energy costs, and
promote energy independence and security. It will be the impetus for new jobs
and a new economic revival for our country."

SOURCE Office of the Speaker of the House

Brendan Daly, Nadeam Elshami, Drew Hammill, +1-202-226-7616, all of Office of
the Speaker of the House