Alan Lowenthal: “Should it have any impact upon our foreign aid?”

To stave off the worst impacts of climate change, we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels by at least half by 2030.

We must achieve 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035, and the entire U.S. economy needs to reach net-zero emissions by midcentury.

These targets are certainly reasonable, and they are consistent with what the world has agreed to for climate targets.

The climate crisis is here, and it poses an existential threat to American life as we know it now.