NEW YORK: President Joe Biden said on Tuesday the world faced “red code” on the dangers of climate change when he visited the damage due to Hurricane Ida in New York and New Jersey.
“We must listen to scientists and national security experts Jersey.” The nation and the world are in danger.
It’s not hyperbole.
It is a fact, “he said.
Biden – who pushed a giant infrastructure shopping bill, including large funds for the green economy – believes that extreme weather throughout the United States this summer is a worse sign to come.” This is everyone’s crisis, “he said In his speech.
“These disasters will not stop.
They will only come with more frequency and malignancy.
“Systemic improvement and hardening of state infrastructure is an urgent need, he asserted, referring to the proposed change such as floodproof power stations, raising buildings and buried electric pathways.” You can’t go back to what it was before, because another tornado, 10 inches more rain would produce the same results, “said Biden in previous comments in New Jersey.” I think we are at one point of inflection where we will act or we will be in real trouble, real.
Our children will be a real problem.
“Ida crashed into the US Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm, brought a big flood and knocked down the power to mostly heavy areas, which is also the main center for the oil industry.
Only last week, Biden conducted a similar tour to Louisiana, where Ida initially asked for land.
However, the remains of the storm departed then arrested the authority in the New York region surprisingly, with ferocious rainfall triggered flooding flooding.
The final explosion of the storm killed at least 47 people in the Northeast as therefore Turn to the streets to a raging river, the basement is flooded and closes the New York subway.
And while one part of the country buckle under the fall of the storm, California and other parts of the western region are struggling to fight forest fires that are increasingly fierce.
With his surprising presidency from after the withdrawal of Afghanistan and soaring Covid infection at home, Biden faces a few difficult weeks, including the struggle to get his infrastructure plan through a divided congress.
The White House hopes that the dramatic impact of the Ida storm in two different parts of the country will pengvanize the action on expenditure bills.
“It is very important for us to overcome the climate crisis and invest …
through the agenda of ‘rebuilding better’, which works through the congress,” said White Jen PSAKI press secretary.
Biden warns climate change ‘red code’ in a visit to storm damage
