bit of that gold old global warming our country, but not other countries, was going to pay trillions of doll hars to protect against. bundle up. it s the same argument senator jim inhoff made on the senate floor. we keep hearing that 2014 has been the warmest year on record. i ask the chair, you know what this is? it s a snowball. and just from outside here. so it s very, very cold out. inhoff and the president mistakenly suggesting cold weather means climate change is in the president s words, a hoax. it s like saying that if everybody around me is wealthy then poverty s not a problem. it misses the bigger picture. local weather is not an indicator of changes in climb. we all experience local weather. nasa says 2017 was one of the warmest years on record. and 97% of climate scientists agree. climate change is real and poses