dr. hanson's or al gore's presentation. it does not make sense to me with the science i have in my background. so i simply, madam speaker, ask a question, the foundational question, what are we trying to do here and with what? that would be the logical think to sksm first thing is, how big is our atmosphere? our atmosphere happens to be, they measure there in rhett meth rick tons, 1.50 qua drillon tons of metric atmosphere. there's a lot of air in the atmosphere. what is the cumulative total of all the co-2 that's gone into the atmosphere emitted by the united states of america since the dawn of the industrial revolution. 45% of it goes away, they don't know where, 55% hangs out in the air. that sounds big, but not compared to the overall atmosphere. it works like this. madam speaker if you draw a circumstance that will represented the size of the atmosphere of the earth and have that be an eight-foot circle so roughly the size of the wall in your house, two four by eight sheets of drywall, that big in iam ter that would re

dr. james hanson. he and i went to the same high school together. he was ahead of me and i don't recall him. but the testimony was mid-summer. the room was not air conditioned. the humidity matched the temperature. and as members sweated, they were being told this world was going to get warm and all kinds of things were going to take place. 1988, that was a few years after all we had the interest in the ice age. there was a coming ice age that was published in some of the major publications and it was inest tabble that the earth was going to cool and people were going to have to migrate to south texas. and it's a fact that at least one, and probably more than one, although scientists were certain we were going to undergo this ice age, are now on the side of the argument that the earth is going to get warmer and get warmer fast and then anything that's a weather anomaly is going to be the result of global warming. if you remember, we had a few hurricanes as a result of global warming. last year, hurricanes were way last year, hurricanes were way off.