Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben’s speech to the House Natural Resources and Energy Committee at the Statehouse in Montpelier was reported on Vermont Public Radio.

From the report:

(Host) Environmental activist Bill McKibben told a panel of Vermont lawmakers that catastrophic weather events like Tropical Storm Irene will become more frequent as the climate continues to warm.

(McKibben) "What’s interesting about that storm is that it fits precisely with what the climatologists have been telling us to expect. It was not an unbelievably powerful wind storm as it swept up the East Coast but over the waters of New York and New Jersey it encountered record surface temperatures. This allowed it to soak up enormous amounts of moisture."

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