<div class='node-body'><p>Climate scientists who appeared Wednesday morning before a Senate committee hearing on climate change and extreme weather impacts had stark warnings for the lawmakers: climate change is here, climate change is man-made, and climate change is going to cost us big time.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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