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Wind, solar batteries, ships — please welcome our panel. applause. so, were going to start with talking about where we are now, and i wanted to start with you, danielle. so, before we get started on the solutions, can we outline the challenge here? the international governmental panel on climate change has said that in order to avoid the worst ravages of the heating associated with climate change, we need renewable resources like solar and wind to provide 85% of global electricity by 2050. but...

Talking about where we are now, and i wanted to start with you, danielle. so, before we get started on the solutions, can we outline the challenge here? the international governmental panel on climate change has said that in order to avoid the worst ravages of the heating associated with climate change, we need renewable resources like solar and wind to provide 85% of global electricity by 2050. but where are we now, and whats the scale of the challenge that faces us? so, danielle, tell me a bit...

So, before we get started on the solutions, can we outline the challenge here? the international governmental panel on climate change has said that in order to avoid the worst ravages of the heating associated with climate change, we need renewable resources like solar and wind to provide 85% of global electricity by 2050. but where are we now, and whats the scale of the challenge that faces us? so, danielle, tell me a bit about how close we are to that 85% target? well, the good news is that wi...

So, were going to start with talking about where we are now, and i wanted to start with you, danielle. so, before we get started on the solutions, can we outline the challenge here? the international governmental panel on climate change has said that in order to avoid the worst ravages of the heating associated with climate change, we need renewable resources like solar and wind to provide 85% of global electricity by 2050. but where are we now, and whats the scale of the challenge that faces us...

The international governmental panel on climate change has said that in order to avoid the worst ravages of the heating associated with climate change, we need renewable resources like solar and wind to provide 85% of global electricity by 2050. but where are we now, and whats the scale of the challenge that faces us? so, danielle, tell me a bit about how close we are to that 85% target. well, the good news is that wind and solar power have doubled in the last five years due to their plummeting ...

Response to this storm, the emergency management community, is taking all actions to local officials, to state officials to get people out of harms way. but its a very dangerous storm both from a wind perspective and from a water perspective. >> going to be with us throughout the two hours here, stand by. i want to bring in ted deutsche of florida. his district includes parts of southeast florida that could be hit hard by hurricane irma. congressman, thanks for joining us. how should people in y...

Board, it would be a rough ride going through this region as the ferry would certainly be rocked pretty significantly. and you look at the temperatures. they would be the last thing youd want to do when its about 41 degrees fahrenheit or 3 or 4 celsius, to be outside on the deck in this weather with gusty winds, massive swells. the pattern remains the same. this is a wind perspective across the region. puts it roughly around 20 miles per hour. gusty at this moment. take you through monday aftern...

This is orange beach, were just off to the east of gulf shores. and high tides a few hours away but the water is way past where it should be at high tide. this is a nice, long beach. were losing beach to the erosion from the water. also the wind has blown a lot of sand and you can see all the seaweed now. buildings here are fine, power on. let me show the radar, its a slow-moving isaac. still an 80-mile-an-hour hurricane. now that the center has made a second landfall and the entire center is ov...

So, were going to start with talking about where we are now, and i wanted to start with you, danielle. so, before we get started on the solutions, can we outline the challenge here? the international governmental panel on climate change has said that in order to avoid the worst ravages of the heating associated with climate change, we need renewable resources like solar and wind to provide 85% of global electricity by 2050. but where are we now, and whats the scale of the challenge that faces us...