in california where i am in the southwestern u.s. naturally occurs every 10 to 20 years in canada fire naturally occurs only every 100 or 300 years. and in the amazon rain forest wildfires never occur at all. in the western us old outdated policies of suppressing all fires even natural ones have caused unnatural accumulations of fuel and in canada roads and super harvesting roads and towns have caused unnatural increases in ignitions at the same time climate change is intensifying the heat that drives wildfires. specific scientific analyses called detection attribution have looked at all the different factors that go into wildfires and these analyses have concluded that humans cause climate change has lengthened fire season around the world up to two months in the western united states human caused climate change has doubled the area burned by wildfire above natural levels since 1984 and in british columbia canada and the extreme prior-year of 2017 human caused climate change increased burned area 7c11 times over natural levels. in s

in california where i am and in the southwestern u.s., buyer naturally occurs every 10 to 20 years.in canada, buyer naturally occurs every 100 to 300 years. an amazon rain forests, a wildfire never occurs at all. in the western u.s., old outdated policies of suppressing all fires, even natural ones, have caused unnatural human relations of fuel. in canada, roads and towns have caused unnatural increases in ignitions. at the same time, climate change is intensifying the heat that drives wildfires. specific, scientific analyses called detention attribution have looked at different factors that go into wildfires. these analyses have concluded that human caused climate change has lengthened buyer season around the world -- fire season around the world up to two months. in the united states human caused climate change has doubled the area of wildfire above natural level since 1984. in british columbia, canada in the extreme fire year of 2017 human caused climate change increased burned area seven to 11 times over natural level. a combination of local factors and human caused climate chan

in california where i am and in the southwestern u.s., buyer naturally occurs every 10 to 20 years. turally occurs every 100 to 300 years. an amazon rain forests, a wildfire never occurs at all. in the western u.s., old outdated policies of suppressing all fires, even natural ones, have caused unnatural human relations of fuel. in canada, roads and towns have caused unnatural increases in ignitions. at the same time, climate change is intensifying the heat that drives wildfires. specific, scientific analyses called detention attribution have looked at different factors that go into wildfires. these analyses have concluded that human caused climate change has lengthened buyer season around the world -- fire season around the world up to two months. in the united states human caused climate change has doubled the area of wildfire above natural level since 1984. in british columbia, canada in the extreme fire year of 2017 human caused climate change increased burned area seven to 11 times over natural level. a combination of local factors and human caused climate change have increased t

emirates, panama, mexico for smuggling syrians in lebanese into the united states across the southwestern u.s. border. on may 15, kasar mohammad, mohammad jafor, for acting on behalf of hezbollah and working with the rigc l to transfer funds. i'm sure you remember that, the secretary-general of hezbollah alongside others for their roles in hezbollah. the primary decision-making body in hezbollah were sanctioned. on may 17 -- these go on for three more pages. all of the designations of sanctions that were made during ambassador richard's tenure. so i don't -- i think the senator from texas has a different understanding of what happened in lebanon. i don't think these are the action, of someone who is soft on hezbollah. but as i said earlier, unfortunately ambassador richard's nomination is not an outlier. around the world the united states faces reduced diplomatic influence because of partisan obstruction by our colleagues on the other side of the aisle. and when ambassadors are not in place to advance u.s. interests, it's the american people who pay the price because without confirmed ambassa

u.s. state of virginia. another major fire in southwestern nova scotia continues to burn out-of-control. on monday the u.s. national oceanic and atmospheric administration reported the past year saw one of the largest surges of carbon dioxide levels on record, bringing atmospheric levels of the heat-trapping gas to 424 parts per million. that's 50% higher than levels at the start of the industrial revolution and the highest level of carbon dioxide in earth's atmosphere in over 4 million years. china has accused united states of provocative and dangerous actions after u.s. and chinese warships came into close contact in the taiwan strait. video of saturday's incident released by the pentagon shows a chinese warship coming within 150 yards of a u.s. destroyer. this comes just days after the pentagon said a chinese fighter jet cut across the path of a u.s. spy plane as it flew over the south china sea. a chinese foreign ministry spokesperson defended the maneuvers. >> i want to emphasize the truth is the u.s. side stirred up, provocations first while the chinese side debt with this in accordance with correspo