From the Office of Senator Kerry

Thursday, June 7, 2001

"Today's announcement of the National Academy of Science's findings represent an unequivocal rebuke of the White House's attempt to create a political escape hatch from reality. We know they'd hoped to use this study to temper or weaken the credibility of the IPCC's scientific findings and those developed over more than a decade of serious research. In fact, the opposite has happened -- the evidence on global warming has again been reaffirmed, underscoring not just how much the Bush Administration lags behind the rest of the world community on this issue, but exactly how enormous the challenge before us really is. It's time to accept the science, reengage in fixing the Kyoto Protocol, and move forward."