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Californias leading experts on water management and resources, the co-founder of the pacific institute, dr. peter glick. thanks so much for being with us. i want to focus on the statements the president made about water and not being properly utilized to fight these fires because when he made the statement people on the front lines reacted to us -- including people fighting the fires, with this huh? whats he talking about? do you have any sense? >> good morning, john. the presidents comments wer...

Climate. joining me now is peter glick. if you can, peter, put irma in context to the idea of the discussion around climate and climate trends. >> sure. im happy to be with you. i certainly wish the circumstances were better. >> agreed. >> we get hurricanes all the time. theyre a natural part of the earths climate. but part of the debate about climate change has been reignited with the presence of first harvey and now this monster storm irma. because of a growing realization that the fact that w...

Typhoons recently. we dont know if climate change is going to increase the number of these storms, but there is growing evidence that the strength of the storms is increasingly influenced by unfortunately what were doing to the climate. >> peter, thank you so much. if you could join us in a couple of hours, that would be great. great to have brains like you on to talk about this. i have a lot more questions, but well do that later if you can come back. >> thanks for your coverage of this. its a ...

Sahara, and the normal route has been through the western atlantic and into the caribbean and sometimes, as weve seen unfortunately, into the gulf of mexico. thats sort of the natural flow of the atmosphere. but as the earth is warming up, because of human effects on the climate, were getting more and more energy put into these storms. and so a storm that would have been smaller is now bigger than it would have otherwise been. >> reflect on that if you can, peter. you are saying that climate is ...

Places that dont get a lot of rain has allowed this entire universe to bloom. in an era of climate change, in which droughts are more common is california as a project sustainable? >> without a doubt. we have droughts naturally, of course. wet years, dry years, and we now have climate change. the climates changing we know its changing because of human activities we know some of the worst impacts are going to be on our water resources, were going to lose snow pack, its going to get hotter, its al...

spy cam at democratic fund-raisers. >> that guy has a shirt on. his house is very 80s. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, im chris hayes. a shift in the controversy surrounding unaccompanied migrant children that have come to the border. nancy pelosi reversed her position on calls for expedited deportation deportations asking is the only immigration bill were going to have, one that hurts children? republicans have been pushing deportation as the solution to the hum...

happen. hell join us from gaza. plus, the water crisis in california spawns record fines. republicans get busted using a spy cam at democratic fund-raisers. >> that guy has a shirt on. his house is very 80s. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. im chris hayes. a shift in the controversy surrounding unaccompanied migrant children that have come to the border. nancy pelosi reversed her position on calls for expedited deportations asking is the only immigration bill we...

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have been broken in the past week alone. as the words extreme weather flash across tv screens across the country, what about another two words? global warming. we will speak with meteorologist jeff masters of the weather underground, environmental reporter suzanne goldenberg, and christian parenti, author of, "tropic of chaos: climate change and the new geography of violence." we will look at why bananas are more regulated than arms. >> trade in both bananas and dinosaur bones have tre...

week alone. as the words extreme weather flash across tv screens across the country, what about another two words? global warming. we will speak with meteorologist jeff masters of the weather underground, environmental reporter suzanne goldenberg, and christian parenti, author of, "tropic of chaos: climate change and the new geography of violence." we will look at why bananas are more regulated than arms. >> trade in both bananas and dinosaur bones have treaties to regulate them, but n...