{"id":7071,"date":"2017-08-30T10:08:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T17:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7071"},"modified":"2017-09-07T22:56:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T05:56:56","slug":"senator-dianne-feinstein-believes-texas-storms-part-of-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7071","title":{"rendered":"Senator Dianne Feinstein believes Texas storms part of global warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 29, 2017, San Francisco<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, appeared at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealthclub.org\/\">Commonwealth Club<\/a> to discuss several topics, including these comments on global warming and the record breaking storms in Texas.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UYhuRuSRmos\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<table style=\"padding: 10px 20px 8px 10px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"350\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"350\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" src=\"\/images\/Feinstein\/Feinstein02.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Feinstein\" align=\"left\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 4px;\">&#8220;I believe that what\u2019s happening now in Texas is part of the warming&#8221; ~ Senator Dianne Feinstein<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"padding: 10px 20px 8px 10px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"400\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" src=\"\/images\/Feinstein\/Feinstein01.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Feinstein\" align=\"right\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 4px;\">&#8221; The question really is, is it too late? Some predict the climate&#8217;s going to warm 4 to 9 degrees, and if it does, there\u2019s nothing we can do, we destroy earth. If we keep the warming one to two degrees, which is still possible, then we can deal with it. So it isn\u2019t hopeless if we do the right thing. &#8221; ~ California Senator Feinstein<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Transcript of climate comments:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senator Feinstein:<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This president does not believe that the climate is warming. I strongly disagree. And all you need to do is take a look at a National Geographic Magazine and see where they\u2019re predicting that a huge ice shelf breaks off which is now rifting, and when it does, the seas rise 10 feet.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153So I think global warming is real. It\u2019s happening much faster than the scientists thought. We need to do &#8230; we\u2019ve had three bills on the floor of the Senate in the time I\u2019ve been there, and I think that not one of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcem has gotten more than 38 votes. And so we\u2019ve got a big job out there by telling Senators and House members and letting them see what is happening.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<table style=\"padding: 10px 20px 8px 10px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"350\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"350\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" src=\"\/images\/Feinstein\/FeinsteinCommonwealthSF.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Feinstein\" align=\"left\" \/><\/td<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I believe that what\u2019s happening now in Texas is part of the warming. The seas are warming, and in Antarctica what\u2019s happening all the huge glaciers are on beds under the ocean. The ocean is warming there much faster than anyone expected. So these glaciers are dropping off into the water, and they\u2019re huge. They\u2019re the size of states, and when they drop and melt it\u2019s terrible. So, I mean there are a lot of things that we could do. The question really is, is it too late?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Some predict the climate&#8217;s going to warm 4 to 9 degrees, and if it does, there\u2019s nothing we can do, we destroy earth. If we keep the warming one to two degrees, which is still possible, then we can deal with it. So it isn\u2019t hopeless if we do the right thing. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" src=\"\/images\/Feinstein\/stage.jpg\" alt=\"Herbst Theatre\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153And you know I really got to commend Jerry Brown, I mean he\u2019s put this state in a clean fuel dimension.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ellen Tauscher:<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So we are no longer in a place of reversing climate change but we could retard it so that it is still sustainable for human life, but we have to act now.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senator Feinstein:<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That\u2019s correct, we have to act now.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Report by James George<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 29, 2017, San Francisco Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, appeared at the Commonwealth Club to discuss several topics, including these comments on global warming and the record breaking storms in Texas. &#8220;I believe that what\u2019s happening now in Texas is part of the warming&#8221; ~ Senator Dianne Feinstein &#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7071"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7088,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071\/revisions\/7088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}