Just by the way, one of the things that climate change does is as the temperature on the planet warms, clouds tend to hold more moisture. This means that when it rains, it will rain harder and longer. The other thing that More moisture in the atmosphere because we have a warming climate... tends to have weather systems move more slowly. So the exact things that made this tragedy this weekend so much worse is because of climate change. That's what's going on here. (27:41–27:49)
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