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jeffrey sachs. >> hi, dr. sachs. serious times. >> second hurricane in a year in the northeast.en often, does it? >> it's pretty eerie and frightening out there right now. obviously we've had a lot of strange weather. i've asked my hurricanologist at the earth institute what's going on. is this climate change? they say don't go there now. we don't know. this is just an event. >> but it's a massive event. >> you never know. >> yeah. >> there are trends that happen. and hurricanes go -- i remember in 2005, people were predicting, okay, because of global warming, we're going to have massive hurricanes every year. we went out and bought a generator in florida. and let me tell you something. you want insurance against another hurricane coming? buy a large generator. >> there you go. that will do it. >> that stops them in their tracks. you don't know what's going on. we do have a lot of things happening at the same time here. >> what we do know is we do know there's a lot of climate change even if we don't know whether this monster is one example of that. >> right. >> it's dramatic. i