money from the carbon tax could have been used to reduce our deficit and former secretary of state scholz argued we need a carbon tax but let's use it to reduce other taxes. my view is fine, let's reduce other taxes. a lot of taxes put american businesses at a disadvantage. some of the corporate taxes, but do what's necessary to drive the development of the technologies so that we are not poisoning our plan at. >> host: greenbelt maryland, democratic a caller. >> caller: good morning. how are you doing? congressman waxman, good morning to you. i hope you stay on even though you're retiring. but congressman, this is a global issue. it's a global concern. i'm a concerned scientist and a ph.d scientist, and part of my job was putting satellites, we -- the melting of the ice captured were very concerned about that. >> host: where did you work? turn four i still work even though i'm retired, challenging the relatively right now. congressman, here's the thing, greta, and to understand this very well, just a couple of years ago the whole nation, all states of our nation was killed with snow but