michael shelling berger is the author of apocalypse never why environmental hurts us all. >> thanks for having me tucker. >> tucker: so do you believe this storm happened because republicans have not yet voted for the infrastructure bill? >> yeah, i mean, we've seen pretty outrages statements over the last 24 hours. look, what people have to understand is that floods are not just because of rain, it's also because we haven't done enough flood management. so we have had agreement. there is bipartisan agreement that we need to improve the infrastructure in new york to manage heavy rains. we did that in new orleans, actually, after hurricane katrina, we did have power outages after hurricane ida hit but the levies they constructed after hurricane katrina held, the army corps of jeans did a good job. we should have had one after hurricane sandy in new york, they did not what they need to do to prepare for this rain, that's the cause of the flooding. we are going to see some more precipitation, some more rain in parts of the world because of increasing temperatures, but you can