Hawaii Sen. Hirono: 'We very much need acknowledge that climate change is upon us' - CNN
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Hawaii Sen. Hirono: 'We very much need acknowledge that climate change is upon us'
Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono tells CNN's Jake Tapper that too many government officials "still have a head-in-the-sand attitude" about the threat from climate change.
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Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.