and we have discovered through decades and decades of evidence that the best way that we can keep forests standing, and therefore have a really significant impact on solving climate change is to protect the rights of the communities, the people that are living in the forests. so we have been here this week, joining efforts, saying that it s critical that part of the climate agreement contains a strong commitment to human rights and a strong commitment to indigenous rights. equally, we think it s incredibly important that this climate agreement spells out the real need to keep fossil fuels in the ground. fossil fuels, burning coal, oil and gas, they re responsible for more than 40% of climate change emissions. and it s worrying right now that the climate change agreement does not explicitly reference fossil fuels. we would like to see leaders like obama, going back to nations around the world committing to keep fossil fuels in the ground and a commitment to clean, renewable energy that
they are bought by oil industry, pure and simple. they are not as dumb as they look. it s a close call, perhaps what they really know. but they are not as dumb as they look. they are paid by big oil. it s so corrupt it is completely outrageous, they will not win this. this in the end will be did not know that is a very short game to play. other poll numbers in the same poll, 69 in states where a majority of electricity is produced by burning coal, 69% support. to your point it s clear the only folks who support being a climate change denialist are the companies that profit off of it. basically no other country in the world has what the united
real sure what we are going to do at this point. hopefully bring in new jobs, but if they put new restrictions on burning coal, has the after effects of laying off many. if people are not burning coal, we can t sell coal, can t mine coal, people at home don t know how they re going to feed their families. the president said this is a global initiative, not just the united states, he is going to request, negotiate, push for this to happen all over the world. does that give you some comfort in west virginia that everybody is going to just voluntarily jump up and quit using coal? absolutely not. i mean, other countries are driving forward and fighting to become new superpowers, they re going to do what is economically successful to drive their countries forward, and i don t think that we here as americans should be so much worried about what s going on overseas, we should be more worried about people like my two cousins laid
overnight. that s winter. it s winter. reporter: the northeast basks in spring-like temperatures, still recovering from superstorm sandy and the nor easter that covered her debris in a record snowfall. this year alone the nations endured a withering drought, the largest wildfires in history and the warmest month on record. in 2011 there were 14 extreme weather events, each doing more than a billion dollars in damage. now some politicians are connecting the dots, blaming the gases that come from burning coal, oil and gas for changing the climate. climate change, extreme weather, it is undeniable. reporter: when it comes to one specific event like sandy, more scientists are more cautious. we know global warming shifts the odds of certain extreme events, we can t say sandy was definitely caused by global warming, but we can say it shifted the odds in its favor. reporter: what they are certain about is that sea levels are rising, about a foot in the
oil production there, but we don t drill for oil in our country. our electricity comes primarily from coal. half of the electricity comes from burning coal in kentucky, it s 90% that comes from burning coal, but yet they won t give permits. we have permits there for seven years. what should we do with the enormous reserve the government has? should we tap it now? does the government belong in business of owning this much oil? we need to get the government out of the business. the way they distribute in the marketplace, they have a price and someone makes a profit. if you don t make a profit, you get booted out of the business. the government is never any good at making profit. the reason we want government to be small, they don t work for a profit and they aren t efficient. someone who agree with you,