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This is the Tom Harbin program.

So last month it was chunks of Europe, particularly Germany and Austria as I recall,

that were just being wiped out by massive flooding, just shocking historic flooding.

Today it is New York and New Jersey and the Northeast, down in Louisiana, you sort of expect hurricanes

from time to time, but what is happening in the Northeast is close to unprecedented.

Greg Palis is going to drop by.

What actually is causing this power outage in Louisiana?

It's not what you think, and we're going to do a deep dive into the whole Robi Wade thing,

and I've got a crazy alert for you about the dukes of hazard.

We'll get to that extreme weather is very much on the rise.

I wanted to check in with Dr. Ben Straussi as the CEO and Chief Scientist of Climate Central,

climatecentral.org.

His Twitter handle is either at Climate Central or at Ben underscore Strauss as T-R-A-U-S-S.

Dr. Strauss, welcome back to the program.

Tell me about this, you know, how rapidly is this happening?

What can we expect to be happening over the next five or ten or fifteen years

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