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Alex Hall and Daniel Blumstein warn that climate change could significantly impact our daily lives

Publication: CBS 

UCLA Experts: Alex Hall: Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science; Professor, Institute of the Environmental and Sustainability; Director, Center for Climate Science 

Daniel Blumstein: Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Member, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability 

Synopsis: Hall and Blumstein were featured in a CBS News report suggesting we only have eight years left to alter our current trajectory.  

UCLA News:  

“We’re in a very different place now from where we were even just a couple decades ago,” Hall told CBS News. 

"You can't put the genie back in the bottle," said Blumstein. "The devil with climate change is, we can stop burning carbon tomorrow, all carbon tomorrow, and we would still have burning effects from the carbon that's in the atmosphere." 

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