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In india, the monsoon is really the true finance ministerof india. and the monsoon is what millions in this country survive on. with climate change, what we are seeing now is huge changes in the monsoon pattern. it rains for only 100 hours in a year on an average, and now we are going to get more rain in lesser number of hours. which means that we are getting extreme rain events leading to floods and then prolonged droughts. so i think we need to go to glasgow knowing that the world is at risk and that we as a country can and will do more. well, now to talk more about that crucial summit on th...

Happening? >> one, i think, more extreme weather events are going to happen more often. we know that already. the bottom line is that washington has been lagging or dragging its feet on this infrastructure bill. we need it done yesterday. this is about infrastructure investment and climate change. if we're not taking drastic and bold stances on policies that can prevent this moving into the future, we're going to continue to see more deaths. think about the communities most impacted when these storms hit. people living in basements, that's all tied to the affordability crisis. we have to ensur...

Insurance that covered water events, lot of people are going to find out their homeowners doesn't cover rainy -- rain events like this. this will be a financial catastrophe. thank you for personalizing this for people to understand the individual devastation this stuff causes. thank you. monica, i want to go to you about the president. he is going to go to louisiana. but in some ways he mentioned fires. we see what ida did in the northeast. we know that look, he talked about trying to infuse all domestic policy, particularly spending policy, with a mitigation of climate change and dealing with...

Almost 10% increase and rain events become heavier, and so many studies have been done on this looking at where this happens. and guess where the highest likely area to see heavy rain events take place as a result of our warming of our planet is, and it's right there on the northeast. 71% increase from a study that looked at 1958 through 2012 for increased heavy rain events. and that puts the highest likelihood scenario right there in the northeast. >> look at that water pouring into the new york city subway system. i have another warning coming in from new jersey, pedram. the mayor there sayi...

Couple weeks ago. we brought that to 3 inches, again kind of show you 2021 coming in with number one and number two heaviest rain events with a short duration there in new york city. so the atmosphere is absolutely saturated. i often talk about this when a comes to let's say looking at the climate change anglech and we know for every 1 degrees celsius our planet warms and our atmosphere holds about 7% more water vapors. when you warm the atmosphere you're able to retain more moisture and what goes up must come down and that's what's happening here across new york city. >> pedram, correct me if...