[applause] . >> good morning. thank you for your kind introduction and for your tremendous leadership for the country and the media and the world is an honor to be here with so many of you this morning to join in welcome so many global leaders to san francisco into the golden state of california. we are proud of our tradition to be a hotbed of bipartisan environmental fervor a place where john mure established the sierra club in 1892 and other bay area leaders established the league of conservation voters. to combat global warming is not an issue but an ethic and a value and integrity that we act upon that value. [applause] but when i was speaker the priority of global warming affairs that was my pledge so based on those values and informed by science, science science science and spurred by the work of vice president al gore wheeze bird energy independence and global warming despite what is happening in washington now i am ever hopeful. because then working with republicans signed at...