Livingstone, Deputy Director in our Global Energy center where i need to work on climate and advanced energy. Thank you very much for joining us here today. Its a terrific to see a full room, particularly amid the dark days of august when so many folks in dc leave for cooler or at the very least, less humid climates. It is surely a traffic registration of interest in this topic and before we get started let me give a big thanks to zach strauss and are Global Energy and art interns who are instruments and making today happen along with our talented medications and events team. They are truly a testament to the assets and professionalism of the Atlantic Council. Dive in to todays discussion by noting that not only are you here because youre fascinated by the narrative that surround the climate challenge in the Energy Transition but you are likely also very interested in the narrators that help us to understand the complexities, ambiguities, leading characters in the emerging solutions at
Unfortunately, i cant even say silver lining. Right . To the day, just wet day, if you are headed out this morning, or even this afternoon, make sure the umbrella is handy. Leaving it in the car. Grabbing the raincoat, as you step outside. While not seeing ton of precipitation, in the philadelphia metro area currently, we are starting to see those showers develop, especially off to the south, wilmington getting maybe few sprinkles down, dover area, zoom out, or if we doo can zoom out see bigger band of showers and maybe even few isolated rumbles of thunder along the front thats extending it self down to the south and west toward baltimore, washington then further off to the west toward hagerstown maryland area, as well. Fog developed this morning, so again, driving around early on this saturday, be wary of that. It will be cool afternoon. Quick break from the kind of damp and dreary weather for our sunday, then chilly and rainy even as we go into the coming week. So outside right now,
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