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Starting Tuesday, Sen. Barbara Boxer will be launching a marathon week of hearings in her Environment and Public Works Committee on the Senate’s version of a climate and energy bill.

It comes as new evidence from the Arctic shows climate change is occurring more rapidly than scientists predicted just a few years ago, and as Greenpeace warns President Obama that Congress is on track to undermine his promise of a clean energy future.

Many advocates, including Greenpeace, believe the House and Senate bills aren’t stringent enough to deal with the urgency of the situation.

But there is another argument for taking advantage of the political moment and putting climate change legislation in place, even if it’s not perfect.