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.

President Trump has now conceded that climate change is not, a Chinese hoax after all.

He's still not sure if it's caused by human activity.

He does not believe his own government's finding that it's a cause for alarm or for urgent government action.

That's virtually the opposite of what we heard from Barack Obama.

A scientific warning has become a political issue.

Democrats have seized the moment with the so-called Green New Deal

espoused by New York's progressive Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Climate change and our environmental challenges are one of the biggest existential threats

to our way of life, not just as a nation, but as a world. And in order for us to combat that threat, we must be as

ambitious and innovative in our solution as possible. The evidence of climate change is mounting

by the day, and some Republicans are turning away from denial. Lamar Alexander, the senator from Tennessee,

is among those who admit that it's real. But when he announced a plan with a catchy name of its

own, he took a slap at Ocasio Cortez's Green New Deal.

I've always believed we ought to do something about climate change, but certainly not this

green new deal that the

Democrats have proposed and that I'll be voting against this week. It's so far off to the left.

I don't think many people will take it seriously. It's mostly an assault on cows,

combustion, and cars. The New Deal, of course, harks back to Franklin Roosevelt, the Manhattan

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