Essential Guide to Solving the Climate Crisis and Global Warming: Renewables, Reducing Industrial Emissions, Climate Resilient America, Vehicles, Agriculture, Manufacturing Jobs, Youth Leadership, State and Local Leaders. Buildings, Risks and Costs

This huge compilation of Congressional Select Committee on the Climate Crisis hearings covers a broad range of global warming topics, including the use of renewables, plans to reduce industrial emissions and create a climate resilient America, youth leadership, the roles of buildings, vehicles, manufacturing, and agriculture, and much more.

Thirteen hearings are included:

1. Generation Climate: Young Leaders Urge Climate Action Now * 2. Solving The Climate Crisis: Drawing Down Carbon and Building Up the American Economy * 3. Creating a Climate Resilient America * 4. Solving the Climate Crisis: Ramping Up Renewables * 5. Solving the Climate Crisis: Cleaning Up Heavy-Duty Vehicles, Protecting Communities * 6. Creating a Climate Resilient America: Business Views on the Costs of the Climate Crisis * 7. Colorado's Roadmap For Clean Energy Action: Lessons From State And Local Leaders * 8. Solving the Climate Crisis: Manufacturing Jobs for America's Workers * 9. Solving the Climate Crisis: Reducing Industrial Emissions Through U.S. Innovation * 10. Solving the Climate Crisis: Cleaner, Stronger Buildings * 11. Solving the Climate Crisis: Natural Solutions To Cutting Pollution And Building Resilience * 12. Solving the Climate Crisis: Opportunities In Agriculture * 13. Creating a Climate Resilient America: Reducing Risks and Costs

Chair of the committee, Florida representative Kathy Castor, said:

This committee is explicitly charged with finding solutions to solve the climate crisis so that we can, quote, "honor our responsibility to be good stewards of the planet for future generations."

What is necessary to address the climate crisis is to stop carbon pollution from accumulating in the atmosphere. That requires action urgent action, ambitious action. Every ton of carbon pollution we avoid, every new solar panel and wind turbine we bring on line, brings us one step closer to solving the climate change challenge. So I want all the young people who are with us here today and those who are watching at school and across the country to hear our promise. We can't afford to let you down or disappoint you. The time for rejecting climate science is over. The time for frustration and despair in the face of the climate crisis must end. This is a time for hope. This is a time for solutions. This is a time for all of us to come together all generations, all political persuasions for action.

The first major warning Congress received about the impending climate crisis was in 1988. But the Congress didn't act then. Today we know that oil companies' own scientists warned them about climate change, too. But instead of action, executives chose to tell Congress and the American people to ignore the scientists... and that we could afford to wait. Now the scientific consensus is too unequivocal to deny. What is clear from the science and what diverse voices, including young people across America, are telling us every day is that if Congress continues to delay, we lose. If Congress chooses the status quo, we lose. In fact, scientists have told us that the world needs to hit net- zero carbon emissions by 2050 to avoid the worst consequences of the climate crisis. Getting there means cutting greenhouse gas pollution 45 percent below 2010 levels by 2030.