Of Climate Change echo give us a call. Our phone lines are open. If you are outside the u. S. You can also catch up with us on all of your favorite social media pages on twitter and facebook. A very good Tuesday Morning to you. That allnight session continuing this hour on the senate floor to talk about the issue of Climate Change. We will be talking about it with you, our viewers, this morning. We will talk about what is happening the floor and where the senators are hoping to go from here. Host who organized his allnight session and what is the goal of it this morning . Guest the senator from hawaii. The cochairs of the Climate Action task force were also involved. All the younger members of the senate who have been doing yeomans work all night in the wee hours and the less attractive slots in the Early Morning to talk about Climate Change. Host what is the goal . What are they hoping to get out of the session . Guest what theyre trying to do is elevate the issue. Theres no immediate legislation on the horizon for Climate Change, but they are hoping that by talking about it and doing it in a high profile and unique way that people outside the beltway will Pay Attention to it which in turn will eventually persuade their colleagues in the senate that Climate Change merits legislation sometime in the future. Host a story in yesterday mentions it. Talk about newly minted senator ed markey. He is one of the authors of the cap and trade illfated in 2009. Guest he was one of the leaders of this. He is one of the more highprofile people on this issue. It is not really about legislation like the legislation he advanced as a congressman with henry waxman back in 2009. There isnt really an opportunity for the kind of a bill at this point. Members of the senate have been talking about the effects Climate Change has on their constituents, or the opportunity for legislation in the future, blumenthal was just talking about the military and its take on Climate Change. The discussions are pretty wideranging. Host if there is not specific legislation, there is president obamas Climate Action plan. How much resistance is that coming is that running into on capitol hill . Guest it has become a big punching bag for republican senators and congressman. It is a centerpiece. There has already been a proposal for new power plants which republicans have been trying to find a way to block through legislation, mainly because it would require new coalfired power plants to capture some of their emissions. It would ban the construction of new coalfired power plants. Yes the obama plan has been a major talking point throughout the night as well for these democrats on the senate floor. Host what has been the reaction from Senate Republicans . They made a few speeches. Guest most of them have not spoken. One of the exceptions was james imhoff who crashed the party early in the night and spent more than half an hour on the floor sort of haunting his democratic colleagues and saying that Climate Change was discredited. He was saying this was an act of desperation. This of course did not go down very well with the organizers of the event. Yeah, most of the republicans just did not participate. A few of the moderates had not been asked to those who have supported Climate Change legislation in the past. Host as we look ahead to the present Climate Action plan hasnt been any effort to pull back and some of those efforts it being a 2014 congressional electionyear . It seems that some democrats are in tough races in 2014 and our actions from this allnight marathon session last night. Guest not all the democrats participated in this event. Especially not the vulnerable democrats. Mary landrieu and others who have nuanced positions on Climate Change anyway. They just did not participate. Host Jean Chemnick has been covering this event for green wire. Host we want to get your thoughts. Did you watch any of this session . We want to show you a little bit of harry reid. He spoke yesterday, kicked off the Climate Change all nighter. Heres a bit of what he had to say. One of the worlds most wellknown spiritual leaders the 14th dalai lama of tibet visited the capital. We talked about the moral imperative to protect the planet we call home. The dollar, spoke with passion and longing for his native tibet where mountain snows melt in the spring to feed the rivers and provide bangladesh, china india, nepal, pakistan with water. Emily is are sometimes called the third poll because they contain nearly one third of the worlds nonpolar ice. In recent years, Climate Change has caused milder winters, less snow and less water for 1. 3 billion People Living downstream from tibet. In the western United States we face a similar problem. For more than one decade drought has plagued the Colorado River, both upstream and downstream. The lifeblood of a number of western states including nevada, california arizona and other states. Mr. President , it during this time we have had some socalled average snows in upper colorado, but none of it reaches the river. The climate has changed. Host that was Senate Majority leader henry harry reid. We are talking about it with our viewers on the washington journal this morning. You want to get your take on what you have seen on the senate floor this past 15 or 20 hours. Lets go to new york, new york on the line for democrats. Steve, good morning. Caller the first thing i would like to ask you is if you can run it on saturday or sunday so that people can actually watch this in its entirety. I watched a little of it last night. I got up at 530 this morning. I watched a senator from connecticut. The one thing i wanted to mention is just about not only is the Energy Concerns in this country, but also our food supply, because these variations in climate, as people have mentioned in the senate, are really affecting our food supply and our ability to grow certain vegetables and foods. I am just a gardener, and if the temperature goes above 90 degrees, you cant grow a tomato. I just wanted to point this out and one other anecdotal comment. I just heard where this winter with the polar vortex, the temperature ranged from 100 degree there was a hundred degree difference between Northern Canada and florida in one weather cycle. That is a frightening event. This is real and happening, and people need to Pay Attention to it. Thank you, cspan. Host if folks do want to watch it in their entirety, they can always go to cspan. Org and view their or of course you can watch it live on cspan to this morning. That is senator jack reed of rhode island on the senate floor now. Lets go to richard waiting in minneapolis, minnesota on our line for republicans. Richard, good morning. Caller good morning. I think the republicans should take the stand that Climate Change is real, but do we want to really destroy our economy by this cap and tax. We are really driving ourselves into a noncompetitive economy with the cap and tax and the raising minimum wage. After all, the democrats and republicans sent our jobs overseas with nafta. Now they want tpp transpacific partnership, we are becoming noncompetitive in the world, so why put another obstacle in front of this nation . Host richard, youre taking republicans should take a stand that Climate Change is real and happening. How do you propose that they deal with that . Caller we are already doing a lot of things, but cap and tax is the wrong way to go about it. We shouldnt put a lot of burdens on our businesses by mandatory regulations. I think businesses are innovating. The worst thing they can do is stop coal generating plants. We have so much coal that we are going to need it area pretty soon, if all these power plants turn over the natural gas, the natural gas is going to go so high that people in minnesota wont be able to heat their homes. We had a propane crisis here in minnesota where the propane went up to six dollars per gallon. People had to pay 7,000 to get their propane tank filled. Host that is richard from minneapolis, minnesota. That is Richard Cohen from minneapolis, minnesota. Some comments is morning, the comets have been coming in since last night on this issue. A few of the comments on a Facebook Page is morning. We will be checking back with those. Democrats, roundtheclock speech not just hot air. That story goes on to quote Sheldon Whitehouse who called the allnight runner speech is a critical step to raise this issue and make a stronger stand in the future for legislation. Back to the phones. Ralph is waiting in battle creek, michigan on our line for democrats. Ralph, good morning. Caller i just want to make the point. I watched angus king of maine is it . He made a lot of the really important points about the science. Theres no disputing the fact that carbon levels in the atmosphere have almost doubled in the last 10,000 years. They are now at 400 parts per million. We were at 200 parts per million. The carbon levels are going to continue to go up in the atmosphere as we continue to burn oil and coal and natural gas. He talked about the Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere is excess Carbon Dioxide. It is dissolving into the oceans and causing Ocean Acidification which is messing up the development of sea life. That is a scientific fact. We are talking about glaciers melting all over the world. That is a scientific fact. Sea levels are rising all over the world, that is a scientific fact. To me, is it 97 of scientists believe that Global Warming is happening . That is because it is manmade Global Warming. There isnt any debate anymore in the science community. Now is just a question of how fast is it going to go. Some are predicting two degrees fahrenheit, four degrees, others are saying it will go up much faster. There will be feedback loops. Science, to me, is overwhelming. Host the president propose just last month the new one billion Climate ChangeResilience Fund 1 billion to help communities dealing with negative whether that is the result of Climate Change. You think this a good place to be putting federal dollars right now . Caller unfortunately, because we waited, and because sea levels are rising, and because we have these dramatic, extreme weather events, we are going to have to start paying for it with repair costs and remediation. I think we should put a tax on carbon and let the marketplace sort out the best alternatives. Maybe we have to have an emergency fund. Protect some carbon. Have an emergency Global Warming emergency fund. Were going to have more of these extreme weather events. Host lets go to mike waiting in boswell, pennsylvania on the line for republicans. Caller thank you for taking my call. If it was so critical, why doesnt harry reid in las vegas why does and he shut off all of his lights and quit taking all the water out of the Colorado River for sin city . We are in Rural America and we live on less than 50,000 a year. We have to keep our electric will a low 100 a month. We have to watch what we use in fuel or coal to heat our houses. If the rich would cut down on their need to fly airplanes and cut down on fuel all year that we have to breathe. Nobody is talking about the airplanes. That is my comment. Host mike from pennsylvania. Our reporter from greenwire earlier mentioned that here is a bit of what this congressman had to say. Since we stood first started debating it here in the late 1990s, they have all failed to show that the byrd hagel legislation. United states should not be a signatory to the kyoto treaty. The kyoto treaty was negotiated with al gore in south america. In 2003 we had the Mccain Lieberman bill. It fails by a 4355. They had the Mccain Lieberman bill in 2005. It failed. It is the trend is going in the wrong direction. In 2010, a resolution of disapproval on the etas Greenhouse Gas rule was 4753. In 2011, the prohibition on Greenhouse Gas relations was 5050. In 2000 13, a Budget Amendment was cut down 4752. The sentiment of the house and senate is going to reverse direction. Host senator james imhoff of oklahoma last night. Members of the senate have been tweeting throughout the night very to those who have been participating in the session you can check that out on cspans twitter page. One of our lists is u. S. Senators. One of our senators who twitches an hour ago, he said the cost of Climate Change legislation is too high for our community. Here is a bit of what the white house had to say. Of what senator white house had to say. In an effort to suggest that this Climate Change thing is not all that we shake it up to be. The first point that he made was about a group of emails that came out of east Anglia University which the climate denier community sees don and nicknamed climate gate, as if watergate, there is a big scandal in those emails. There was some probably not entirely appropriate things that were said in the emails, but the question is, was the science underlying it affected or compromised in any way . Well, socalled climate. Was actually looked at over and over and over again. Because it was at the university of east anglia, the university did an investigation because it involved scientists at penn state. Penn state is an investigation. Both of those universities gave a complete clean bill of health to the underlying science that was at the basis of this. The house of commons, the british house of commons is investigation. They came back and said nothing wrong with the science there nothing wrong with the science. The u. S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science foundation of the United States of america also did investigations, as did the Inspector General of the department of commerce. And 343, those investigations came back as well, saying if they did say anything inappropriate, nothing wrong with the science. So after all that, after six published reviews whose results confirmed that there was nothing wrong with the science. Host that was senator whitehou se. This is the 35th all my session, according to the United States senate website. To qualify to be an all nighter, a session must go past 4 a. M. There have been 35 since 1915 that have done that. You can see jack reed on the floor of the senate. You can watch is over on cspan2. Were taking calls from viewers. We want to hear your thoughts on what you have seen so far. Lets go to dock waiting in baton rouge louisiana. Caller i dont agree about used anglia. There is an email from some dr. Here, i think cotton is his last name, he said change numbers are in there, as long as it fits our narrative, dont worry about it. It almost sounds like a democrat talking point. Anytime harry reid says anything about anything, i dont agree with it. He is a liar. He is just like obama. I wouldnt put anything past them. Lets go to jack waiting in appalachia, new york on the line for democrats. Caller im glad you guys are talking about this issue, because Climate Change is very important to me. Host we will go to thomas waiting in North Las Vegas nevada our line for democrats. Caller caller a couple of problems. The issues being discussed on a global scale, we cant do anything by ourselves. We need to make sure that other people bear the financial responsibility for cutting carbon use. I think man causes it, but history shows that every time it gets warm, it gets cold right afterwards. Something in the planet stabilizes the temperature. I dont think were just going to keep getting hot until it is 500 degrees. That is all i have to say. Democrats have to show a cost of valuation of initiatives they want to do to cut carbon. Host that is thomas calling from nevada this morning. A few headlines going around the country. I want to bring you uptodate. Today is a special election in floridas 13th district. That is to replace the late congressman bill young republican congressman down there. That race featuring alex sink the democrat and david jolly the republican. We will delve deeper into that race coming up at about 9150920 with mark caputa about 9 15 or 9 20 with mark caput\to of the miami herald. Unanimous Senate Passes a bill on military sex assault bill. Talking about that 970 vote yesterday. We have about 15 minutes left to talk about the senates allnight session on Climate Change. We want to get your thoughts. Sander is waiting in shelbyville, indiana on our line for independents. Sandra, good morning. Caller it was before the sin nominated before the tsunami hit. I asked an older Science Teacher if this wo