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Goes through the end of november. and there are above average surface temperatures to warmer than average temperatures across the organization giving more fuel and we think there will be a more active season than usual. anywhere you seat yellow that is above average. plus are below. in the gulf there is i patch of blue. temperatures are below average. that will not last long and over all the warmer temperatures across the atlantic. this is neither an el nino or lanina. that is the water temperature off the coast of south america. because of that, we think there will be an above average season ...

In that region, webb was a good man to have at the table. >> he started to get up and people were starting to go through the protocol and figuring out how to rearrange things, i said, you don't worry about it, you just focus on what you're doing, i'm sure we can find a chair and i'll sit right next to you. that's how i ended up in this folding chair. >> what were you watching? >> we were able to monitor in real time what was taking place. >> the visualization that we were able to see on the screen in that small sit room, you know, was certainly somewhat hazy, but totally intelligible to us. >>...

It. one interesting thing, at the very last minute when the language was going to be developed countries shall continue to undertake economy wide emission targets. they changed that from shall to should. the reason, poppy, they did that was so they won't come back to the united states and have something that would be mandated, therefore, the senate would have to vote for it. they couldn't get 100 senators, they couldn't get 30 senators to vote for something like that. we've already voted -- >> senator, let me ask you this. you brought up richard branson, who was just on. you said that he actua...

>> reporter: scientists say the arctic has warmed twice as fast as the rest of the nation. this was one of the worst wildfire seasons on record in the last frontier state. 5 million acres burned, about the size of massachusetts. but while the obama administration blames man and the burning of fossil fuels, there is not consensus. >> the climate is changing, yes, man made emissions are playing a role. what isn't settled is how big of a role that is. and we know that we haven't seen increased surface temperatures over the past 15 to 20 years, and we know that we're not headed towards the catastr...

>> how often do these el ninos come? >> on average, anywhere between every three and seven years. >> every three and seven. it's not like a comet, right, so we don't know if it's coming regularly. what do we start looking for to sort of find out why are people increasingly confident that's what we're headed toward? >> we're looking for a few things. we're looking at surface temperatures in parts of the tropical pacific ocean, especially the central pacific and east pacific along the coast of peru. so one signal is you start to see above normal water temperatures at the surface. if those water ...