We have a compelling debate on should america rapidly eliminate fossil fuel use to prevent climate catastrophe, and we want to give them the full hour. We did this debate at the university of miami in florida and boulder last week and in that case it was Alice Epstein debating clark you can find both of those debates on thech steamboat institutes channel. Today we have alex, but we have a different debate opponent. And let me briefly introduce. I will read their bios and then i believe they are going to come up to the stage after i introducedas them. Weh are pleased to have with us thisis morning professor andrew, professor of Atmospheric Science at texas a m university. He iste a climate scientist who studies both the science and politics of Climate Change. He is the chair in geoscience at texas a m and in 22 he was named director of the texas h m texas center fortl climate studies. During the last year he served as a senior policy analyst in the White House Office of science and tech