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To love it. lets talk about the big weather story of the day thats whats happening on the west coast. currently, we have 18 fires burning but we have two atmospheric rivers. whats an atmospheric river? we get rivers of humid air that comes into the storm and they can produce epic amounts of rainfall. the first one is going now into thursday and then on to friday. then theres another one even bigger behind this one thats going to come in over the weekend. so two significant rainfall events to beg...

Getting more dangerous. it rapidly intensified. it slowed down as it made its way over land, allowing for extreme rainfall events to unfold across many locations. and mainly across the northeastern u.s., where unfortunately 50 people lost their lives. new york city broke a record in terms of how much rain actually fell. they had over 3 inches of rain in a one-hour period. the most rain that they have ever experienced within that city causing widespread flash flooding in and around the metro regi...

We look back at these disasters? >> kim, frankly many people are still reeling from many of this past summers disasters that occurred. and with the world leaders meeting in glasgow next month for cop-26 we dont want these to be overshadowed or overlooked or forgotten. it was basically or virtually impossible to ignore climate change this past summer across north america. we ranked them, some of the worst disasters, climate-related disasters this summer. i dont have time to get to every single on...

Hit. this is most every community has risks from extreme rainfall events. as to one single were seeing climate thats happening now. the climate change has already changed. extreme rainfall events are occurring. but with tropical and nontropical systems. its generally the one communities are least prepared for. were seeing the wildfire problem off the scale. and think about it, everything we have felt this is based upon past extreme weather events. so were having to change in real time as these v...

In fact, take a look at this. from climate central showing the increasing number of what are called excessive rainfall events. in other words, high one-day amounts. its going up year by year and thats not good news, fred. not just here in the united states but globally. >> gene norman, thank you so much for that view. lets talk further. joining me now to discuss, john sutter, baseline documentary series that focuses on the worlds climate crisis. john, so good to see you. explain how climate chan...

Boris and christi? >> adrienne, thank you so much, from new orleans. if youve been watching, ida is just one severe weather event that has disrupted life across the country and across the world this year. in the western united states, in canada, heat waves have either created or worsened drought conditions. that contributed to wildfire season starting early and lasting through this month. right now, there are record-setting fires burning their way through california. nearly 2 million acres hav...

These extreme rainfall events? it is really frustrating actually as a climate scientist, as a hydrologist, to see people not prepared for these really bad floods that we have seen. i know that we need to have these places, just like this reservoir, to store the water, to stop it rushing down to peoples houses and to the streets. but we just havent done anything about it. we make such small steps and we know that the future is going to get worse so we need more of this preparation. could these di...

To protect that soil from say increasing extreme rainfall events? so in the autumn we would direct drill a cover crop into there and use it as almost as a false crop during that winter period and then come the spring time we would kill off that crop and then plant a new crop in there that will be our cash crop for spring. we have had some really heavy storms that have washed away the soil and we are trying to protect that and trying to protect our precious soil that we need to farm. thanks so mu...

Along the connecticut and massachusetts border. all the damage since sundays landfall with ida now occurred and is leaving the northeast. what a storm to remember. stephanie, i have to mention the connection to climate change. warmer planet needs warmer atmosphere. it has been proven that every degree celsius that we warm the atmosphere is 7% more moisture the atmosphere can hold. warmer we get our planet, heavier rainfall events well have. the fact that new york city in two events in one and a ...

Been more prepared for this? they could be because _ been more prepared for this? tie: could be because they need been more prepared for this? tie:1: could be because they need to been more prepared for this? tie:1 could be because they need to pay more attention to the forecast for example from the national hurricane centre. henry was pretty well forecasted and a number of days in advance that gives some whining that estimate that is coming and they should be prepared. we estimate that is comin...