Assessment from the white house, arguing that the u. S. Is at risk now from disaster coming from disruptive weather. What is your take . Is Climate Change happening now . You can also send us a tweet, http twitter. Com cspanwj, or join the conversation on facebook. Com cspan, and you can. Mail us, journal cspan. Org a little bit about the 840 page report. This is on their website. Assessmental climate summarizes the impact of Climate Change on the United States now and in the future. A team of over 300 experts, guided by host the website is very interactive. If youre interested, go there and play around with it. Call, email, send us your thoughts as to whether you think Climate Change is happening now and what should be done about it. There is a Washington Post piece courtesy of the museum newseu m. Herea look at this map that they have. Mapping Climate Change, observed and projected effects of Climate Change across the United States according to this latest National Climate assessment. Take a look at the northwest, they are expecting lower water supply in summer due to earlier snow melt. In the southwest, increased competition for scarce water and more wildfires. In alaska, shrinking glaciers, thawing permafrost. Hawaii, decreased food and Water Supplies. The rates of the great planning the great plains, higher demand for water and energy. The midwest, higher crop yields offset by heat waves, droughts, floods. The northeast, heat waves, extreme precipitation and coastal flooding, and in the southeast, more competition for water and risks related to hurricanes. Your thoughts on this . Just outsidealler, washington, d. C. , you are on the air. I am thinking is that after the litany of what you just explained of all the things that will possibly happen and has happened, we are seeing it every day all over the world there are still deniers. People who will hear what you have just said and will claim that there is no such thing as Climate Change. Startk that we need to calling it Climate Crisis and we have to act now. In congress there are still people who are uneducated or unwilling to see the truth and they will keep us from actually taking action on this crisis. It is a crisis. Should it be the federal government or states acting on this . Local communities taking the initiative to protect their resources in specific regions . Caller what is happening in china affects korea. This is a global issue and it is a global problem, not just federal. Scott, good morning, independent caller. This is the first time i have called since isaac. I have been preaching for years about the global Climate Change. An answer tore is this and i would like to answer it quick, we could be energy selfsufficient. The very first diesel motor was made to run off of hemp diesel. We could go to a marijuana fuel and as our plants grow, it runs on photo to photosynthesis that purifies the air. That would be one step. But there are many things that we would have to do to do a change. I was in new orleans after hurricane isaac. Aboutuld have thought Hurricane Sandy hitting new york city . We definitely have a problem that is definitely out there. We have to get our heads out of the sand and realize there are simple answers, totally selfsufficient, energy usa, we can run it off of hemp youll. It was done before we ran anything else. Thank you very much, have a good day. Host on twitter it says this union, washington, what are your thoughts this morning . What the person just said about grants, they seem to be in bed with following the money. I am objective. I want to know what the truth is. I remember a congressional meeting from about four years ago. It showed that this was a cyclical thing. That the system had been warming at a record rate. One thing that the scientists , the environmentalists should focus on pie tins on the shelves had been moving at a rapid rate. This is a religion of Global Warming. Volcanoes, if you study them on the discovery channel, they have 11 pounds more co2. Poisonous gas in the atmosphere, we are making changes, but not at the cost of an elective issuese to pay for this when many countries around the world, like china, dont pay any attention to it. The amount of Carbon Dioxide in the air, the equivalent is 40,000 people. That is the percentage of our atmosphere that includes Carbon Dioxide. Host you said you are open to making some changes. What do you mean . First of all, carbon access comes from air conditioners and automobiles. Fuel to the keepruction systems that carbon sequestered, anything that has to do with the manufacturing process i am not for shutting down the coal industry because coal is somehow bad. Your father not your father, but somebodys father had rubber or plastic made from petroleum, it seems like the left side of the i o wants to jump to this religion, like Everything Oil is bad. I am for sensible constraints, but not at the cost of bringing us back to the stone age. Read,all right, republican from union, washington. Front page this morning host on the jump page, in the paper, usa today, they do cite this host so, if you google nature Climate Change, you can find the journal online and then you can read the science in the article. Is cited inthat usa today. Lets go to tony, next. Independent caller. Good morning. Read my lips, no carbon tax. This is a ploy to implement a carbon tax. These people are supposed to be so advanced on what is happening in the atmosphere, they are ignoring the fact that they are doing this geoengineering. All anyone has to do is look up in the sky and see the white streaks, it is geoengineering to give the heart machine, h. A. R. T. , the machine is to manipulate the climate. These people are supposed to be so advanced on what is happening in the atmosphere . They try to pretend that this big elephant in the room, the project, google it, are spraying in the sky. They do most of it at night. But then you can see it in the morning. You can see the effects of the changes to the climate. They call it weapon modification. World,e going around the telling people that if they dont comply with them economically, there will be weapon modification. Onto all right, lets move kevin, new york, democratic caller. Your thoughts . Carbon tax idea of is behind what is happening right now. We have on the planet plants that utilize photosynthesis in the spring in the northern climates. These plants take in Carbon Dioxide and give out oxygen. When the plants die, they go to the forest floor. After flooding and more and more millennia go on, they get their he deeper and deeper. The planet has a carbon tax system where carbon is taken out of the air and put into the ground. We havee early 1800s been digging up that carbon, burning it and releasing it, thereby upsetting the balance. We live on a rock. Oceans, it has plants, but it is a rock. There is no father sky, there is no mother earth. There is no caring. The planet doesnt care. We are hoping and hoping that somewhere in the world there is an entity that cares about us, the only people who have any type of control over what is going on right now of our current climate situation are the people. We have a situation where we tried to describe the situation to people and people will sometimes agree. But then when you mention the things that you have to do in order to make the situation right . Suddenly they start screaming it is government control. Well, someone has to take control. Big business is not helping. There will be controls that are necessary, and i hate to say that, because i know that that is the big bugaboo. Does that mean higher prices, higher utility bills, etc. , for americans . Look at what president obama did, he increased cafe standards. That is a simple thing. Your car needs to get more miles per gallon. Simple things could slow the process. If you want to do severe things to stop the process that would imply not just increased costs, but premuch a total redoing of the weighted we live in terms of we need to live closer together, we would not be able to buy and drive big gas guzzling cars. Those are the types of decisions that will help to stop the process. We could slow the process with things like cafe standards. Host the white house released the third National Climate assessment yesterday, saying that Climate Change is happening now and is impacting the United States, our economy, and our health care. We want to get your thoughts on this also, send us a tweet, or facebook us. Here is what the Republican Party in the senate had to say. Mitch mcconnell was on the senate floor yesterday, talking about the white house and what he presumes the white house is trying to do with this Climate Change assessment. [video clip] we expect the president to talk about the weather at the white house. Resuming his call for a National Energy tax. I am sure he will get loud cheers from liberal elites. The kinds of people who leave a giant Carbon Footprint and then lecture everyone else about low flow toilets. That was missed that was Mitch Mcconnell yesterday, talking about what the president is doing by putting this forward. They had a forum with the panel scientist talking about this third National Climate assessment. The report was 840 pages. Google that and you can look into it yourself. It is an interactive website, you can go there and play around with it, see what you think about what they are predicting here. Yesterday at the white house, at this panel discussion, was the white house chief of staff, john podesta. This is what he had to say about the report. [applause] [video clip] i know that this is a tremendous contribution to our knowledge on Climate Change. Thatderscores something many of us in the administration and this room have been saying for some time now, that Climate Change is no longer a distant threat. I dont doubt that there will be some media reports that tried to place the Climate Assessment within an ongoing Climate Change debate in washington, but what this report actually tells us is that there is no debate. The reports on the Intergovernmental Panel that came out earlier this year told us that there is no debate. An overwhelming majority of scientists tell us, frankly, there is no debate. Climate change is real, it is being driven by human activity and is happening right now. These are the fact, despite what those who deny the facts and seek to mislead the public have to say. Podesta,t was john yesterday, white house counselor, talking about this assessment. This tweet from yesterday, fueled by Climate Change, it int the economy 100 billion 2012. You can see the pictures here with the graphic. Here is a tweet from steve who responded what john podesta had to say the other day to sarah, ino edgewater, maryland. Your thoughts . Sarah . You are on the air. Sarah, maryland . Ontoight, let me move terri terry, oregon. Hello, terry. Thank you for taking my call. You look beautiful, as ever. I would like to comment on the man from new york talking about Climate Change and cafe standards for automobiles. I completely agree with him, but i would like to take it a step further and propose one simple thing that we do in this country will change the climate for the better in the future. ,imply get out of your cars keep them if you want, but dont use them often. I lost my license two years ago due to an accident that was not my fault. It was a drunk driver. Anyway, i have not been driving. Been that time i have taking public transportation, which is excellent in oregon. We really are ahead of the rest of the country and that. Anyway, in the process, i became wealthier, because i spent less money. Healthier, i lost 60 pounds. My arthritis got better, my back got better, my knees felt better. I am 60 years old and most days, most men and women guess my age as around 40. So, i really believe in this stuff. That you happen is will slowly, over time, you will see these differences. The payoffs are tremendous. I really believe that that is all we have to do. Sorry, henry ford. Thomas, republican caller, your thoughts . Of these taxes that they are going to lay on us, it will create a huge burden for everybody. Taxing us is not going to help the planet one bit. All it is going to do is put us in the poor house. Wanted to do something, we would start addressing india and china, who are creating reams and reams of carbon pollution. But why blame us . Will keep taking your thoughts and getting your comments on Climate Change. Is it happening now . That according to the National Climate assessment, the third one put out by the white house, yesterday. This from harry reid what is the republican answer . They deny it is happening at all. Leadership said instead of making the environment drastically better, the president strategy will make the climate for unemployed americans even worse. We are getting your thoughts from outside washington this morning, your take on Climate Change. In other news, the Charlotte Observer had this headline this inning, drawing the hey tillis battle draws nations battle hagantillis draws nations eyes. The Fayetteville Observer this morning. Tillis wins gop primary care go primary. The so, that in Fayetteville Observer this morning. National section of the new york times, has analysis on these primary races. Establishment republicans see victory, conservatives have already spent millions attacking ms. Hagan. A poll last month host yesterday there were primaries held in ohio, where opponents,r held off but North Carolina attracted the most interest for both parties. Also, on election 2014 headlines there are ay, number of folks trying to return to congress you can see the pictures, a few there. 16 current u. S. House members have served nonconsecutive terms, according to the biographical director of the u. S. Congress, 14 of them returning in 2010 alone. Keep your eye on that. On benghazi . A Health Battle takes shape to investigate and ghazi, there will be a vote later this week on setting up a select committee to investigate what happened on september 11, 2012, in benghazi, libya, seeking to centralize the Investigative Authority on the attack. Host that is the latest on the benghazi investigation. The headline this morning from many papers, the world news , kidnapping of more girls adds to pressure on nigeria. Also yesterday, 20 female u. S. Senators sent this to president obama host here is what the president had to say. [video clip] team and sending in a we are glad that nigeria has excepted the help. Obviously, what is going on is awful. And as a parent, i cant imagine what they are going through. But this organization has been one of the worst regional or local terrorist organizations in the world. We are going to do everything we can to assist them in recovering these young women more broadly, but we will have to really tackle a pernicious problem , ande that Country Organization that has carried out ruthless attacks and killed thousands over the last several years. Talkingesident obama about the situation in nigeria and the help that will come from the United States. Back to this mornings topic, Climate Change, is it happening now . Thoughts. Get your thomas, california, republican caller. Good morning to you. Caller good morning. Host what are your thoughts on Climate Change . Caller Climate Change is going to happen, it doesnt matter. Much they tax us. But lets touch the news points you were talking about. A man came out of the fisa court with an page judgment on how broke the constitution, meaning he is on the obama kill list in california. Host what does this have to do with Climate Change . This well if we dont get this guy to stop killing americans host all right, we will move on. Richard, good morning. Old. R i am 60 years when we were in school, elementary school, middle school, high school, the marines, we were all told about Climate Change. People in the 1960s denied it. They denied it in the 1970s. In florida they lost the whole neighborhood. Their ocean was so high, the tide came right up came right up to their living room. This is insane. We will never fix it in this country. We were forbidden to be driven in the United States and we sent them to india. The other countries in this world do not do the same thing we are doing. A losinge are fighting battle. I really do. This is insane. We are losing glaciers. Everything is going crazy. I know there is big money behind it. Richard, can i ask you about the military in the 1960s . What were they saying . Back then they were telling us about how the earth was changing and we had to have more vehicles ready for it, this was during the vietnam war and it was starting to show then. Back then they had multi fuel vehicles that they would get rid of to go through war, nonpolluting fuel, like straight diesel. I think it ran on anything. Thereuld put anything in and it would smoke real