As Congress debates clean energy jobs and emissions reduction policy to address climate change and grow a clean energy economy, 18 leading scientific organizations have sent a letter to U.S. senators stating the consensus scientific view on climate change. Read the letter and view the signatory organizations.

The scientific organizations state:

"Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring, and rigorous scientific research demonstrates that the greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the primary driver."

The letter concludes:

"If we are to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change, emissions of greenhouse gases much be dramatically reduced."

Conservationists, farmers, and natural resource managers should take note of the many professional societies crucial to the work of agriculture and resource management that signed on to this statement. They include the American Meteorological Society, the American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of America, the Ecological Society of America, and the Soil Science Society of America, as well as 13 other prominent scientific organizations.