my name is seth heald. i live in virginia. i retired a month ago after a 35-year career in the department of justice. i did not work on environmental issues, and i never really thought of myself as an environmentalist until a few years ago, i became more informed about global warming, climate change, and i'm here today on my own initiative. no one is paying me. i do not resent anyone other than myself as a concerned citizens, a parent, and perhaps someday a grandparent. i also, after i retired, enrolled in a program at johns hopkins university, studying for a masters degree in energy policy and climate. i'm in my first semester. i have homework. i was doing it the other day. i'm reading a book by david archer, who wrote an introductory textbook on global warming. he is an oceanologist from the university of chicago. i knew i was getting ready for coming here today, and i came across a sentence that just -- i had to bring up today. the future of the earth's climate depends mostly on what happens to coal. he might have well as s