discuss a host of other environmental issues i'm joined now by brad friedman editor in chief of the brad blog dot com and co-host of the green news report thank you so much both of you for coming on. great to be here great to be here brad let's start with you some are calling this california drought the worst and five hundred years what's been affected in the short and long term. well it's amazing and i know you're from the from the bay area so you're familiar with this time of year it should be raining it should be cold it's not raining it's not cold it has been unbelievably warm for the past several months and yeah we're in the middle of the worst drought on record with with apparently no end in sight so this is a concern but it is sort of feeds into the to the larger concern about the changing climate patterns that we've been seeing the extreme weather whether it's extreme drought here extreme cold and extreme snow extreme floods out in out of the u.k. we've got a mess on our hands and we need to start connecting the dots as far as why these things are happening you know and also on the sh