Climate change came out of the laboratory and roared into Monique Leclerc's backyard-literally. At NYIT's sixth annual energy conference, "Beyond Carbon: Offshore Energy and Technologies,"  Leclerc's keynote speech about climate science included a photo of tornado damage to her Georgia home-a stark reminder of the extreme weather scientists attribute to global warming.

"We have to change the way we do business, the way we think," said Leclerc, Ph.D. (pictured right), Regents Professor at the University of Georgia. She spoke to more than 140 conference attendees at the NYIT de Seversky Mansion on June 2 at the Old Westbury campus.  

Other speakers discussed sustainable wind and ocean wave technologies. "The time to move on them is now," said Markian Melnyk, president of Atlantic Grid Development LLC, which is developing an offshore high-voltage transmission "backbone" for wind energy parks. 

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