Time to Wake Up 292: The Looming Economic Catastrophe if Climate Change Left Unchecked
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 
May 8 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) delivers his 292nd speech urging his colleagues to wake up to the threat of climate change.
Whitehouse highlights multiple reports predicting a massive systemic shock to the economy that will be triggered by climate change unless the world undertakes major intervention to lower emissions. Assessments from the Potsdam Institute, The Economist, and Deloitte now predict climate-related damages will reach tens of trillions of dollars by 2050.
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Well said.
Time to leave the planet.
Meanwhile, insurance companies are not insuring homes being flooded out because of climate change. Republicans do not care about the American people.
Humans are a failed species, it's only a matter of time before extinction which is for the best anyway. The planet will be fine some life will survive and no one or nothing will notice we have gone. However, the extinction event will be miserable protracted and horrible for most.
Plan B get a big fridge stock it with beer etc and sit back to watch the EOTWAWKI.
No increase in tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, melting sea ice, melting glaciers, but a dramatic increase in the greening of the planet and major food crops production. Where is the "Climate Crisis"
He spoke about sea rise damage and yet Bill Gates and Obama have just bought multi million dollar houses on the coast. When will you people learn this is the greatest hoax of our time. In the last 50 years there are less hurricanes less flooding and less Forrest fires. Please go look at the data, don't listen to speeches that don't quote the data. As a scientist once said "In god we trust everyone else bring data"
Total rubbish, the IPCC don't say any of this, what is his angle?
The weather patterns of earth change dramatically every 10k to 12k years. Weather has always been veritable. The Maldives (islands) they said were sinking; now they’re building hotels on them. The ice in the Bering Strait is thickening. The Great Barrier Reef isn’t dying, it’s growing just fine. The overall temp is lower than it has been in the entire history of earth along with CO2 levels. The ocean level is expected to rise above 1 inch in the next 100 years; so will the land. What’s happening is normal. Hurricanes are not happening more often or becoming more severe: look at the 1930’s. The horrible forest fires are happening because of poor forest management in not burning the under brush with controlled burns. Investigate and stop jumping on band wagons. Stop being a parrot.
This guys full of sh*t.
Ahh, so this is where all the asylum inmates went when they shut the nut houses down.
There hasn't been a day in earths history that the climate hasn't changed . To the want to be seen as good . Everything has become a crusade , climate , sex , race , religion . Theres such a wealth of wokeness that has opinions about everything . Just keep on chanting as loud as you can , Meanwhile drugs , porn and every other evil are steeling the children . Where are your demonstrations against those ?
This guy is either an idiot or a liar. He makes to many false alarmist claims to explain them all. He states that crop production will fail due to climate change this is a lie… There are many reports and data including reports by the IPCC and NOAA that conclude that in fact crop production has increased every year for about 50 years. This includes the past 15 years while the alarmist propaganda has been telling us that warming was harming crop production! He states that hurricanes, floods, wildfires Etc are increasing. This is another lie…
He states that the cost of the damage done by hurricanes has increased significantly. Again there are many reports and data including the IPCC and NOAA that clearly conclude that there are not more hurricanes nor are they worse. The cost of hurricanes is obviously because the population that lives in hurricane areas has increased dramatically. Also reports like the IPCC and NOAA as well as NASA among many others clearly conclude that there has been no increase in wildfires, droughts, floods Etc.
He sites many "estimates" that all predict catastrophe. Considering the fact that virtually every climate prediction in the past 20 years have been wrong. It is in fact ignorance, to now believe all predictions of catastrophe will be proven correct in the future!
Believe me senator they know, they dont want panic to set in yet until their plans are set in stone to make as much profit while saving themselves during the crisis. The general public needs to understand the temperature rise will be exponential not gradual.
FAR TOO MANY HUMANS IN THE US ARE IGNORE AND ARE LAZY.‼️… OTHERS ARE CROOKS‼️
Sobering. Thanks for giving us the truth.
What a bunch of absolute bull crap. Marxist drivel.
both global warming and higher levels of CO₂ would benefit the biosphere
the Earth is too cold
and CO₂ is a nutrient
"" Estimates, models, we predict..""….ITS ALL BULL.
There is NO CLIMATE EMERGENCY…none watsoever.
This is nothing more than a push to enslave and impoverish humanity.
The "climate crisis" only exists in cyberspace.
Out here in reality, everything is normal.
We are beginning to see two hundred year floods happening two years in a row and catastrophic droughts. People, WAKE UP!