Before the election, many assumed the United States would have a price on carbon, and 95% of economists familiar with climate change say such pricing is the most efficient and flexible way to cut greenhouse-gas emissions.
Anyone who is even vaguely familiar with climate change knows that we are adding to the severity and frequency of extreme weather by overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide and other pollutants.
Increasingly, we have to face the possibility not only of the now familiar problems of climate change, bad enough as these are, but of a whole range of "doomsday" prospects.
Yet it is the coral that lies at the heart of Heron's unique habitat, and it is difficult to contemplate that even this distant paradise is being altered by the all too familiar effects of climate change, made all the more pressing by the fact that whatever affects the coral affects everything else in the reef.
Polar bears are among the most familiar faces of climate change.
It is a familiar story in the climate change debate.
Instead I want to point out the way in which these arguments take on the same dynamics as more familiar touchy topics, from climate change, to immigration, to religious belief.
People in Tharaka sub-county are familiar with the term climate change and associate it with environmental degradation.
The New York attorney general is investigating whether ExxonMobil misled the public and investors about the dangers and potential business risks of climate change, sources familiar with the investigation said on Thursday.
It's a scenario that's going to become more and more familiar in coming years as climate change and rapid urbanisation play an ever-greater role in shaping humanitarian crises, according to an AlertNet poll of the world's biggest aid organisations.
