i'd like to invite up our last two registered speakers for today, patrick roddy and max bliss. patrick and max? [inaudible conversations] >> good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning, okay. >> go ahead. >> my name is patrick roddy, i'm a san francisco-based anti-geoengineering activist and researcher, and i run stop spraying us-ff.com. today's hearing is supposed to address whether greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft endanger public health. but when you mention greenhouse gas, most people think of carbon dioxide, a harmless trace gas that's essential to all life on earth. but co2 represents just 3% of the planet's greenhouse gas. 95 percent of it is water. even preschoolers know overcast skies make the nights warmer and the days cooler, reducing the temperature range of the night's lows to the day's highs. which wrings me to -- brings me to contrails. all but the willfully ignorant know our skies have changed dramatically over the last few decades. the dark blue skies of our childhood are replaced with a milky-white haze with contrails stretching from horizon to horizon