CNN's Toobin on Harvey: 'Climate Change Is Part of This Story'

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” CNN Senior Legal Analyst and New Yorker Staff Writer Jeffrey Toobin stated that climate change is a part of the story of Hurricane Harvey.

Toobin said, “I think one question we should ask, even if the Republican Party isn’t asking that, is what is the role of manmade climate change in disasters like this one? It doesn’t necessarily create storms like this, but does it increase the intensity of these storms? You know, climate change is part of this story. We focus on the heroism, quite appropriately, of the people who are trying to save lives. But why disasters like this occur and their intensity is also part of the story.”

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