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California's leading experts on water management and resources, the co-founder of the pacific institute, dr. peter glick. thanks so much for being with us. i want to focus on the statements the president made about water and not being properly utilized to fight these fires because when he made the statement people on the front lines reacted to us -- including people fighting the fires, with this huh? what's he talking about? do you have any sense? >> good morning, john. the president's comments were confused, they were confusing, they weren't helpful. they were basically ignorant about the rea...

Climate. joining me now is peter glick. if you can, peter, put irma in context to the idea of the discussion around climate and climate trends. >> sure. i'm happy to be with you. i certainly wish the circumstances were better. >> agreed. >> we get hurricanes all the time. they're a natural part of the earth's climate. but part of the debate about climate change has been reignited with the presence of first harvey and now this monster storm irma. because of a growing realization that the fact that we're changing the climate, that humans are changing the climate, means that we're influencing the...

Typhoons recently. we don't know if climate change is going to increase the number of these storms, but there is growing evidence that the strength of the storms is increasingly influenced by unfortunately what we're doing to the climate. >> peter, thank you so much. if you could join us in a couple of hours, that would be great. great to have brains like you on to talk about this. i have a lot more questions, but we'll do that later if you can come back. >> thanks for your coverage of this. it's a really important event. >> thank you, peter. hurricane irma already proven to be deadly, as we...

Sahara, and the normal route has been through the western atlantic and into the caribbean and sometimes, as we've seen unfortunately, into the gulf of mexico. that's sort of the natural flow of the atmosphere. but as the earth is warming up, because of human effects on the climate, we're getting more and more energy put into these storms. and so a storm that would have been smaller is now bigger than it would have otherwise been. >> reflect on that if you can, peter. you are saying that climate is affecting the strength of these. we now have two surpearltives, harvey, slow moving. we're lookin...

Places that don't get a lot of rain has allowed this entire universe to bloom. in an era of climate change, in which droughts are more common is california as a project sustainable? >> without a doubt. we have droughts naturally, of course. wet years, dry years, and we now have climate change. the climate's changing we know it's changing because of human activities we know some of the worst impacts are going to be on our water resources, we're going to lose snow pack, it's going to get hotter, it's already getting hotter, that means more demand for water. i think we'll have to deal with the re...