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To alaska which has been unusually warm and gotten a lot of precipitation. california gets most of its precipitation in the wintertime and it -- the snow on the mountains is sort of a critical reservoir for when it's relatively dry the rest of the year. you've had this ridge of high pressure, this is basically blocked the storms from providi providing precipitation to california. >> what do you do? you can't just create a snow pack that these communities rely on for water. >> i think people are going to have to start planning, perhaps for different weather conditions. i mean, because on top of...

That's a form of a fertilizer in order to grow things, it's actually sought after in many cases. and so it's not something that you can't just automatically assume, well, we have to try to do something about c o2 because every effort that we do to think that we can change something that nature -- you know, god's still up there. >> and yet as the ippc report lays out in deeply distressing black and white, humans are changing nature regardless of where god may or may not be. joining us now is founding editor of climate progress and a senior fellow of the center for american progress, joe rome. j...

>> you won't because you'll be doing something much more fun. >> i will be with you in spirit. >> although this is great fun. >> that is. i should have fixed that tease. i teased myself. >> you know what, you deserve it. enjoy that time off. >> thanks, alex. have a great show. thanks. 35 years. the government sentences wikileaker. we will discuss whistle blowing and manning's legacy with wikileak's attorney michael ratner. plus, new reports of a deadly chemical weapons attack in syria. we'll look at what that means for the united states thin red line. and we will talk with climate progre...

Do something on it. >> there's no question. if people want to know what climate change is like, go out west. they'll see the droughts. people need to understand that the solution is something very affordable. we're talking about replacing dirty forms of energy with cleaner forms of energy with solar and wind. >> joe rome from climate progress. go to climateprogress.org. coming up, supreme court justice antonin scalia has more pronouncements. we'll look at his latest stab at political correctness. that's next. streamed. a quarter million tweeters are tweeting. and 900 million dollars are chan...