I'm John Batscher with Professor Evan Ellis of the U.S. Army War College.

Sao Paulo, the Reuters news, climate change made the recent flooding that devastated

Southern Brazil twice as likely, according to a team of international

scientists, adding that heavy rains were also intensified by the

natural El Nino phenomenon. This is the story of Rio Grande du Sol.

I've learned from the professor, this is the southernmost state of Brazil. It's heavily agriculture. It's very much part of the

success of Brazil because of its rice crop, which was in already, so it's next year's rice crop that's damaged.

The drones flying over the Rio Grande to Seoul show a devastating, devastating flooding of everything.

Everything that was civilization is now underwater or has been,

leaving behind pools of poison.

And I'm told that there is a disease associated with vermin rats and urine in the water and it affects human beings.

And there's an outbreak of that now and Rio Grande is sole.

People are no longer waiting through rapids at waste level.

They're sloshing in their boots to clean up, but there's mud everywhere. The whole city, the airport, everything

is underwater and this very much will limit Brazil's ability to grow over these next years.

However, the question is climate. Professor, I mentioned

this because these scientists have declared that the climate change made this worse. I don't know that that can I don't challenge

that but I do recall how we reported on the Panama situation of the drought that made the water plunge to the level that they could not use

adequately the locks through the Panama Canal that damaged global trade. So in your measure at the Strategic Studies Institute,

are you now routinely assessing risk of climate change for different countries

and for the in understanding that is something that I and others increasingly

taken account not necessarily just at the Strategic Studies Institute but I

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