Hey, everybody. We got a great one today, you know, for a change, because we got Frank

Four and David Rothkoff on Israel and Gaza and Hezbollah and Lebanon and Iran and the

hoodies in Yemen. And we have climate scientist Michael Mann back to

talk about hurricanes Helene and Milton and how just maybe, maybe they're a function of global

warming or climate change. Those are the same things. The globe is getting warmer, according to

Michael. So let's start with Michael.

Hey, Mike. Great to be with you, Al. Yep. Just seem like these two storms, Helene and Milton,

may have been trying to tell us something. What do you suppose that is? Yeah, I think they're trying to tell us to, well, first of all, during the home stretch of an election that will determine the future course of climate action in the U.S. and arguably internationally, this is an issue that you should be thinking about.

Do you want a president who denies that climate change is real and wants to get rid of NOAA,

the government agency that is actually responsible for sending out the hurricane hunters

that make the measurements that we feed into the model so we can better predict the path

and the intensity of the hurricane?

And that would be axed under the Republican

plan agenda 2025. So I think there's a clear political message, and the large, obviously,

the related message, we've got to get our act in gear. It's late in the game. We've got to

reduce carbon emissions. We've got to get off fossil fuels. Now, the path of Helene was much more dangerous.

It went up into the mountains up in Western North Carolina

and the Tennessee even, right?

Yeah.

And in fact, Asheville, North Carolina, which was hit particularly hard, it's sort of,

there are a couple ironies there.

Unfortunate ironies.

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