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After the destruction left by several storms in recent months, people are dealing with genuine concern and fear of the coming storms.

Of the worst ice storms in decades knocked out utility poles and wires. tens of thousands across the western united states are also without power as a rare cold weather system continues to pummel parts of california. widespread snow and flooding have forced several road closures in los angeles and san francisco is expected to experience record cold temperatures over the next 2a hours. but officials say the worst is yet to come. i'm joined now by climate professor richard rood from the university of michigan. richard, thank you forjoining us on bbc news. we havejust seen pictures of those awful...

The tune of these bills is in the hundreds of billions of dollars total but when we think about this bill we have to think about the size of what we're facing with climate change impacts. the national oceanic and atmospheric administration just yesterday releasing a report that hurricane ida, $60 billion of damages to our economy. this year already $100 billion of damages from weather and climate extremes. really have to compare apples to apples in terms of what this might cost us to get going in a serious way and what the continued damages will be year-on-year on year if we don't get serious ...