This is a CBS, I on the World, a New World Report. I'm John Bachelor of Professor

Aven Ellis of the U.S. Army War College. We began our conversation in these evenings about drought some time ago, but the drought was in

Panama when it first appeared, damaging the ability of people to pass through the Panama Canal there wasn't enough water in the

reservoirs and in addition to the lack of rainfall for the farmers in the region that

was solved at the same time the drought comes back up throughout the Americas and now the headlines and are especially alarming.

Brazil drought drops on Amazon Port River level to a hundred and twenty two year low.

This is one part of the Amazon.

There's a photograph accompanying with large ships sitting on grassy mud with no river in sight. Another headline says,

drought is dry to major Amazon River tributary to its lowest level in 122 years,

damaging the ability of people to be fed or to keep the food and medicine

coming to the people along the Amazon, so much so that another headline says they've taken

to dredging what remains of the Amazon.

Professor, the number here says a hundred and twenty-year low for a tributary.

However, that takes us back to a time that no one was a no one today was alive can remember so we're talking about the worst drought in living memory

Is this promise worse ahead? Is this connect to that drought in Panama? Does this connect to

the storms in the in the Gulf? I don't expect you to have an answer, but it is

strange business. Or are we just doing too much weather reporting?

No, I think the number of different incidents that we've talked about really over these past

years now is as we've done this program on New World Report, illustrate really a basic underlying pattern and that is as you have global

warming if I dare to say so you have more energy put in the atmosphere that has

effects on water in other things so So warmer water in some places, warmer currents,

and that affects, those currents affect where rain falls,

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