2 find some of the evidence in the Powerpoint presentation attached herewith. The powerpoint will be presented in the public hearing. Despite the universal consensus on the climate crisis, some are skeptical claiming that there had been no significant global warming despite ever increasing amounts of carbon dioxide being emitted and attributing the pause in warming to natural variations in the sun’s energy output, decline in atmospheric water vapor and greater storage of heat by the oceans. However, there is no compelling evidence to support such skepticisms--at slide no. 10 of the Powerpoint presentation which will be discussed in the public hearing. Even if we cut greenhouse gas emissions dramatically now, the effects will continue because it takes greenhouse gases decades to be removed from the atmosphere and parts of the climate system, particularly large bodies of water and ice, hundreds of years to respond to changes in temperature. Nothing further. ____________________________ Gerry Bagtasa, Ph.D (17 March 2018)