dr. botkin and others are being adversely trotted result resultr -- treated as a of their statements andscientific research that the powersontradicts that be. so thank you. >> you are very welcome. pleasure to work withork member.ng however much we might disagree he is courtesy colleague and we always work well together. this was not a hearing on the science, it was a hearing with the experience of administrators. if we were to do a hearing on i think we, then would be adding the scientists scientistsnd the from nasa and the science entities to back the united states defense establishment and establishment of every scientific organization in the country. dr. botkin is right and they are all wronger but i'm not sure that would be the prudent for our country. thank you very much. we are adjourned. night c-spany american history tour travels country to explore historic places. tomorrow note w

dr. daniel botkin. the honorable louvre strange -- luther strange is alabama's attorney general. i welcome a colleague here. and dr. joseph mason is a junior louisiana bancorp's association in doubt professor of banking at louisiana state university and senior fellow at the wharton school. i welcome our panel. we will begin with the honorable dr.. >> thank you, senator whitehouse and other members of the subcommittee for convening this panel on the matter of enormous importance. i am pleased to be here and reassure some of you i am still alive. it is several months ago after speaking to former epa administrator sitting in front of you, we were convinced by the overwhelming verdict of scientists the earth was warming. and we humans are the only controllable contributors. given those facts, we all signed an op ed piece that america gets serious about reducing our contribution rather than simply sitting back and accepting. if anything, new reports have made that needed to act even more urgent. it is hard to believe there's any question of that. the ipcc report validates to the strong

dr. botkin and others are being adversely treated as a result of their statements and scientific research that sometimes contradicts the powers that be. so thank you. >> you are very welcome. always a pleasure to work with my ranking member. however much we might disagree on things, he is a very courteous colleague and we always work well together. i think that this was not a hearing on the science, it was a hearing with the experience of previous administrators. if we were to do a hearing on the science, then i think we would be adding the scientists from noaa and the scientists from nasa and the science entities who back the united states defense establishment and a great establishment of every scientific organization in the country. perhaps dr. botkin is right and they are all wrong, but i'm not sure that would be the prudent course for our country. thank you very much. we are adjourned. >> each friday night, c-span american history tour travels the country to explore historic places and hear from authors about some of the events and people that shaped the nation. tomorrow night, the c

dr. botkin is right and they are all wronger but i'm not sure that would be the prudent for our country. thank you very much. we are adjourned. night c-spany american history tour travels country to explore historic places. night, the civil rights look back at a letter fromr king's jail and the life and death of medgar evers. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] a legend when he was only 12 and he said when he asked his father why would they him and his father said that is what they do. so he said i'm sure he was a bit angry, frustrated. he was hurt. so getting away from it, i said away from mississippi he he wasd not army when only 16 and served in world war ii. defendingabout america. it didn't matter about the color of his skin until he came back his to mississippi and on 21st birthday he tried to register to vote. charles whorother was also a veteran and other veterans and these group of them aroundrned with shotguns and ran them off and medgar says we ran, we did not go up against those men but made medgar get serious. from the american history tour of the civ