To express the sense of Congress regarding climate change.

SA 58. Mr. SCHATZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2 proposed by Ms. Murkowski (for herself, Mr. Hoeven, Mr.
Barrasso, Mr. Risch, Mr. Lee, Mr. Flake, Mr. Daines, Mr. Manchin, Mr.
Cassidy, Mr. Gardner, Mr. Portman, Mr. Alexander, and Mrs. Capito) to
the bill S. 1, to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

(a) Findings.--The environmental analysis contained in the
Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement referred to
in section 2(a) and deemed to satisfy the requirements of the
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et
seq.) as described in section 2(a), states that--
(1) ``[W]arming of the climate system is unequivocal and
each of the last [3] decades has been successively warmer at
the Earth's surface than any preceding decade since 1850.'';
(2) ``The [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change], in
addition to other institutions, such as the National Research
Council and the United States (U.S.) Global Change Research
Program (USGCRP), have concluded that it is extremely likely
that global increases in atmospheric [greenhouse gas]
concentrations and global temperatures are caused by human
activities.''; and
(3) ``A warmer planet causes large-scale changes that
reverberate throughout the climate system of the Earth,
including higher sea levels, changes in precipitation, and
altered weather patterns (e.g. an increase in more extreme
weather events).''.
(b) Sense of Congress.--Consistent with the findings under
subsection (a), it is the sense of Congress that--
(1) climate change is real; and
(2) human activity significantly contributes to climate
change.
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