In Death Valley, Calif., temperatures hit 128 degrees in June. It was in the nineties in northern Alaska. In Vermont, Lake Champlain rose to a record 99.6 feet last Saturday after unrelenting rains all spring and summer. In Arizona, we mourned the loss of 19 brave firefighters battling a wildfire. Experts don’t link any single weather event to global warming, but scientists say there is a connection between extreme weather and climate change. Bernie has introduced comprehensive legislation to tax sources of greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. A Senate committee will hold a hearing later this month. Meanwhile, key senators met Tuesday with the top White House adviser on climate change. Bernie said afterward that the administration should be bolder. “When you have a planetary crisis, of course you don’t build the Keystone oil pipeline, of course you support a tax on carbon and of course you back a major investment in energy efficiency.”
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