It has transformed the way we live and work, but it's also wreaked havoc on our climate.
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Streets would be less congested, emissions would be reduced, and the environment, our climate in particular, would benefit.
This may be linked to our climate and the reduced availability of food in our increasingly unsettled summers.
But the real role of trees in our climate is the question that we've addressed in our study.
One such approach is to make clean energy innovation the guiding north star of our climate policy choices.
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This is not only an issue of helping our climate and the environment, but it's one of our national security.
She explained that as "our climate is getting worse" the changes are happening fast and we therefore need "every available tool" to fight it.
Until recently, we had assumed that our climate was relatively stable.
Most importantly, Ernie knows that we can produce more energy and grow our economy while still taking care of our air, our water and our climate.
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It is exactly these data sets, and observations of remnants of past climate changes, that allow us to understand the variability in our climate at all.
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It has become no longer politically correct in certain circles in Washington to speak about climate change or carbon pollution or how carbon pollution is causing our climate to change.
Such an agreement is not just necessary to protect our climate but also to provide a framework within which we can kick-start our economies, create jobs and secure our future prosperity.
"The future of our farmlands, our forests, our health, our climate - these are the biggest threats humanity faces and they are far more important than concerns over liability, " he said.
With more than 1 million members, NRDC has won landmark cases and helped pass landmark laws to clean up our air and water, protect our forests and wildlife, and keep our climate safe.
We face threats to our health, our climate, and of course our security, that have left many of our young people wondering what kind of future they'll be leaving for their own kids.
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Our geography, our history, our culture, our climate, the talents of our people can be unleashed to create extraordinary opportunities in tourism, in trade, in industry, in energy, in water, in so many areas.
At this point, it should be deafening enough to wake up anyone still denying the reality of a new normal for our climate, our weather, and the insurance companies whose stability underlies our economy.
In preparation for the changing state of our climate, Masters and the staff at Wunderground.com are planning to add more green content and are searching for a full-time meteorologist to head their climate change site.
If carbon dioxide were black, we could actually see our atmosphere darkening with carbon dioxide, creating a heat-trapping blanket that is raising global air and ocean temperatures and threatening to dramatically rearrange our climate.
"Unless we take the necessary steps to measure and reduce the amount of methane escaping from the entire supply chain, natural gas engines could very well be worse for our climate than diesel, " Krupp told the truck industry summit.
And I am grateful to be able to support this, to offer the continued effort of our climate change project and the Clinton Global Initiative to help the partners we have that are involved in this and anybody else that wants it.
"While we welcome the areas where progress to meet targets has been made, we share the concerns that the UK CCC latest report flags up of 'considerable uncertainty' in the Scottish government's draft climate plan and the need to increase the rate of policy implementation if we are to deliver our climate targets, " Mr Ballantine said.
They are the same organizations that have forgotten New Orleans and forgotten to follow up on contractors who aren't fulfilling their responsibilities there -- important not only for the people of NOLA, but also for setting a precedent for the victims of Sandy, and of the many storms to come whose frequency and severity will rise as our climate changes.
"A lot of our global climate measurement is based on spacecraft and 30 years old, " says Mr. Lu.
As such, these business leaders are carefully monitoring each move we make and how we are reacting to the unexpected changes in our business climate.
The sadness, the difficulty of having an adult conversation, is that our current Climate Secretary appears to be on the panic and hysteria side, not the rational trade off one.
And the irony, I think, of our political climate right now is that, compared to other countries, the differences between the two major parties on most issues is not as big as it's represented.
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"The stalactites and stalagmites from these caves are a way of looking back in time to see how warm periods similar to our modern climate affect how far permafrost extends across Siberia, " said Dr Anton Vaks from the University of Oxford.
Obviously we're using a lot of satellite imagery these days, and this is going to be a major focus of some of the work NASA is doing here at home, thinking about how we can get better information about our own climate.
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