Carolinas are being swamped by these heavy rains and high winds from Hurricane Florence.

The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate.

I don't think it's a hoax. I think there's probably a difference, but I don't know that it's man-made.

Experts say that we have until 2030 to avoid catastrophe.

Hello again, I'm Marvin Olney, and this is to the point, climate change update.

We've come a long way since climate change was a non-partisan issue.

Here's a TV spot from 2008 with Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

and Republican former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Hi, I'm Nancy Pelosi,

lifelong Democrat and Speaker of the House. And I'm Newt Gingrich, lifelong Republican,

and I used to be speaker. We don't always see eye to eye, do we, Newt? No, but we do agree.

Our country must take action to address climate change.

We need cleaner forms of energy, and we need them fast.

If enough of us demand action from our leaders, we can spark the innovation we need.

Go to we can solve it.org. Together, we can do this.

Since that spot was cut in 2008, Democratic President Barack Obama helped put together the Paris Accord,

committing the U.S. to join other countries in reducing greenhouse emissions.

But this month, Republican Donald Trump did what he promised.

The formal process began of pulling us out.

I withdrew the United States from the terrible one-sided Paris Climate Accord was a total

disaster for our country. Also this month, 11,000 scientists from 153 countries backed evidence that

Earth faces a climate emergency. But at the same time, four automakers have intervened on behalf of Trump's challenge

to California's special authority to set lower tailpipe emissions under the Clean Air Act.

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