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Effects of climate change is a powerful hurricane is now sitting off the coast of florid florida. >> more extreme weather events like hurricane dorian. bigger and bigger hurricanes more frequently, thats one of the things scientists are worried about. >> you know what? theres actually a scientists who went and counted every hurricane thats ever been seen by satellite since satellites gave us global coverage in the year 1970. you plot up worldwide power of hurricanes against the surface temperatu...

Ed>> we are seeing firsthand the effects of climate change as a powerful hurricane is now sitting offf the coast of florida. >> more extreme weather events like hurricane dorian. >> bigger and bigger hurricanes more frequently, thats one of the things scientists are worried about. >> you know what? theres actually a scientists who went and counted every hurricane thats ever been seen by satellite since satellites gave us global coverage in the year 1970. you plot up worldwide power of hurricanes...

The destruction caused by super storms and hurricanes like dorian costs the united states billions of dollars in damage every year. but when it comes to escaping, surviving and recovering from a natural disaster its like everything else, poor people suffer the most. a report by the national bureau of economic research states the obvious. there is a broad consensus that the wealthy can access a wide range of protective strategies from owning a second home to accessing better quality medicine, foo...

Of economic research states the obvious. there is a broad consensus that the wealthy can access a wide range of protective strategies from owning a second home to accessing better-quality medicine, food, and medical care and housing. the poor are thus more likely to bear the incidence of natural disasters. our next guest has had hard experience dealing with the catastrophic effects of superstorms on poor communities. cory booker was mayor of newark, new jersey, when hurricane sandy hit new jerse...

Isaac, i called you aaron, apologize. thank you for your question. i apologize for taking up so much time but thought it was important to give context. i want to go to fr. >> every one of my fundraisers is open to the press. there is nothing done behind closed doors. every single fundraiser ive had. >> do you ever regret that? >> not at all. >> im kidding. >> here is francine strike. >> my 24-year-old daughter jessie and her friend jacob were killed in super storm sandy by falling trees. and man...

Amount of sea level rise that happened because of the excessive heat in greenland. we saw excessive heat here in the northeastern u.s., in europe. so, what might sound like a modest amount of warming corresponds to an increase in the severity of these major heat waves, the melting of the ice sheets, the rise in sea level, and a whole host of unprecedented extreme weather events that we have seen play out in recent years, unprecedented floods and wildfires and superstorms and heat waves. >> so, w...

New york and have been for eight years, i can count the number of times i leave the state basically on my fingers. you know, job one is when a situation like this happens, these situations happen more and more frequently. we have tornadoes, we have storms, we have superstorms. all sorts of natural disasters, emergency emergencies come up all the time. so i think its important to be in a place where you can always respond, but look, everybody makes their own political judgment and im not going to...

What the fossil fuel industry has relied on for a long time is to just kind of create a muddle, create confusion in the minds of the public. most of the public as you suggest is no longer confused about this. bev seen enough hurricanes, super storms, tornadoes and other devastating floods that we know that this has got to get dealt with. the president simply in my opinion abdicated leadership on this very important global issue. others will step in and fulfill that leadership roam, but the presi...

What did you find and hope to accomplish today? >> sure. we did the report in 2014 because the military is always planning for future contingencies, thats the job of the military as to plan for what is coming next. it is clear the climate is changing affecting our bases and our naval bases will be further and further under water, the arctic and what the russians and chinese are doing now that its melting. there will be food shortages and possibility of super storms and affects the military and s...

The atmosphere will push more sun in. the ocean absorbs more heat. that causes more evaporation into the atmosphere. the storms, these super storms, snowstorms all use moisture for their fuel. now youre putting more moisture many the atmosphere. thats creating greater storms. if you look at the last three years with number of hurricanes we have had. if you looked at the number of rainfall events that are more than three inches. the amount of flooding we have seen. the amount of super charged sto...