. >> next, remarks from author and geographer james elson on increasing ocean temperatures which he thinks is causing hurricanes to become stronger. he's the presidentand ceo of client attack, a company that develops software for hurricane and tornado risk models used by insurance companies . speaking in front of an audience at florida state university's coastal and marine plan, this is an hour. >>. [applause] thanks a lot felicia, actually i only wear one hat also. i really think of myself as a scientist, really. that's all i do. if you do science for a long enough time, they put you in positions like being the chair of an environment so it's not something you seek out but that happens because you do a lot of science so i like to think of myself as a person who just focuses on one thing. and actually, two things. it's hurricanes and tornadoes so i focus on two things but really, they're connected in that they are these violent windstorms that cause lots of damage and casualties and so we have to about what might happen in the future. so really what i do and there is this idea of wearing o