S.Amdt. 1029

1. Adds SEC. 12__. SENSE OF THE SENATE CONCERNING CLIMATE CHANGE on page 1150, line 15

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   Inserted: SEC. 12__. SENSE OF THE SENATE CONCERNING CLIMATE CHANGE.

   Inserted: (a) Findings.--The Senate finds that--

   Inserted: (1) evidence that human activity is contributing significantly to climate change is based on sound measurement practices and well-understood physics;

   Inserted: (2) measurements show that the acidity of the oceans has increased almost 30 percent since preindustrial times, at a rate that exceeds estimates of any rate in 50,000,000 years;

   Inserted: (3) almost 90 percent of scientists, almost 95 percent of active climate scientists, and more than 30 major scientific organizations think humans are significantly contributing to climate change;

   Inserted: (4) the harms of climate change to agriculture include more frequent and severe storms, more frequent flooding, worsening droughts, changes in the range of pests and invasive species, reduced agricultural productivity, damaging stress to livestock health, and reduced productivity of agricultural producers;

   Inserted: (5) the Government Accountability Office--

   Inserted: (A) has added the fiscal exposure of the Federal Government to climate change to the GAO High Risk list; and

   Inserted: (B) has included exposure through the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation as part of the risk;

   Inserted: (6) agriculture-related industry contributes almost 5 percent to the economy of the United States; and

   Inserted: (7) climate change presents a credible risk to--

   Inserted: (A) agriculture and forestry in the United States; and

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   Inserted: (B) the infrastructure, health of the people, national security, and economy of the United States.

   Inserted: (b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that--

   Inserted: (1) the scientific evidence and consensus that supports the assertion that humans are contributing to climate change represents a credible risk to agriculture and related industries in the United States;

   Inserted: (2) the scientific evidence and consensus referred to in paragraph (1) is not product of a hoax or deception perpetrated on the people of the United States; and

   Inserted: (3) efforts to reduce carbon pollution and adapt to the effects of climate change are--

   Inserted: (A) economically prudent; and

   Inserted: (B) in the best security and fiscal interests of the United States.

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