warmer. northern latitude s five, six, seven degrees warmer. a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor increases the potential for extreme weather, floods, extremes dry area, getting drier, wet areas are getting wetter. it s this new weather on steroids. i tell people it s like mother nature has a remote krog, a dvr, putting our seasons on fast forward and turning severe weather up to an 11. it s always been at about aรง 5. now we re at an 11 and i m seeing things on the weather map, chris that in my 35 years tracking the weather i never, of thought i would see. and at some point a sane, rational person looks at this drip, drip of evidence and says, something has to be going on. it is not your grandfather s weather anymore. i m an optimist. we ll figure out solutions, mostly market-based solutions, but government needs to set the bar and then get the heck out of the way and let the markets figure out what s going to