finally i would like to expand a special gratitude to our colleague, senator jon tester here to speak on this subject not only of the center for the state impacted by climate change among but as a farmer himself. we will ask senator tester to speak as soon as the opening statements are completed. would completed. would that come out turn it over to ranking member, senator wicker to give his opening remarks. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i notice our first hearing to gather a subcommittee. i also want to thank all of our witnesses for being here today. first witness and a panel that will follow. as we discussed the impact of climate and farming, fishing, for street and hunting, we must not do click the effect troponin climate regulations would have on these industries. yesterday as part of the president's climate action plan come to epa administrator gene mccarthy announced a new set of rules to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants. these have little effect on the climate. but the rules would have a negative effect on the livelihood of all energy users, including

i want to say thank you to jon tester who is here to speak on this subject, not only as a senator from a state that will be impacted by climate change but as a farmer himself. we'll ask senator tester to speak as soon as the opening statements are completed. with that i turn this over to ranking member senator wicker to give his opening remarks. >> thank you, very much, mr. chairman. i know it's our first hearing together as a subcommittee. i want to thank all of our witnesses for being here today. first witness and the panel that will follow. as we discussed the impact of climate on farming, fishing, forestry and hunting, we must not neglect the effects that draconian climate regulations would have on these industries. yesterday as part of the president's climate action plan, epa administrator mccarthy announced new rules to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants. these would have little effect on the climate but the rules would have a negative effect on all energy users including, farmers and fishermen who are the focus of today's hearing. the president's costly

he was wrong in montana where jon tester won and nate had said he wouldn't. he was also wrong in north dakota where heidi heitkamp won. nate did miss two states in 2012. you want to know who didn't miss any states in 2012? this guy. this guy from the looks of his blog appears to be visiting from 1997, but -- yes, look, it's made on a calculator. what he lacks in caring about the visual presentation of his data, he makes up for apparently in accurate predictions. his name is sam wang and he analyzes polling data and makes predictions about elections at the princeton election consortium. pec. and in 2012, when nate silver got those two states wrong on those senate seats, mr. wang at princeton got zero states wrong. he correctly predicted all 33 of the 33 u.s. senate races in 2012. so he's got a pretty good track record. at sam wang's princeton election consortium, even though these are what the other data geeks say is going to happen to the u.s. senate this year, this is what he's saying instead. all the other analysts say it's way more likely republicans are g