“Climate change poses an existential threat to our lives, our economy, and the threat is here,” he said. Biden said the bipartisan deal would include funds to repair roads and bridges but would also invest in climate resilience. Flanked by New York’s senators, Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, and Kirsten Gillibrand, Mr. Biden another opportunity to demonstrate his commitment to the federal government’s storm response and to build support for an infrastructure package that he has promised would help safeguard against future storms. Biden said from a neighborhood in Queens, referring to scientific research that suggests a growing number of Americans are vulnerable to extreme weather events. President Biden warned Americans on Tuesday that Hurricane Ida’s lethal destruction was a sure sign of a nation and world “in peril” from climate change, and said drastic action would be needed to prevent extreme weather patterns from worsening. Whatever damage done in New Jersey, you can’t build back and restore what it was before because another tornado, another 10 inches of rain, is going to produce the same kind of results.īy Katie Rogers, Juliet Macur, Anne Barnard, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Chelsia Rose Marcius And we can no longer - we all know we can’t just build back to what it was before. And we’re going to build back, realizing what the status of the climate is now, what the trajectory of it is going to be. And so we’re all in this together, and we’ve got to make sure that we don’t leave any community behind - and it’s all across the country. And if we don’t do something - we can’t turn it back very much, but we can prevent it from getting worse. I mean, every part of the country, every part of the country is getting hit by extreme weather, and we’re now living in real time what the country’s going to look like. And climate change was here, and we’re living through it now.
For decades, scientists have warned of extreme weather and it would be more extreme. And my thoughts are with all those families affected by the storms and all those families who lost someone they loved. Dozens of lost lives, homes destroyed in Manville - including by gas leaks triggered by the flooding - damaged infrastructure, including the rail system.
The losses that we witnessed today are profound.
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