President Joe Biden said Tuesday as he toured damage in New York and New Jersey following Hurricane Ida that the world was facing a “code red” for the threat of climate change.

Biden spoke after walking the streets of New Jersey and then Queens, New York City, and meeting people whose homes were damaged, or damaged, by the Ida storm.

President Biden says he believes that the damage everyone is seeing-from wildfires in the West to hurricane devastation in the South and Northeast-will turn climate-change skeptics into believers, but years of overlooked warnings by scientists, economists, and others means that the time for action is running out.

“The threat is here. It is not getting any better,”Joe Biden

‘The threat is there, it’ s not becoming any better,’ Biden said in New York.

“I think we’re at one of those inflection points where we’re going to act or we’re going to be in real, real trouble. Our kids are going to be in real trouble.” Ida hit the Gulf Coast in the Category 4 hurricane that brought severe flooding and power outages to much of the densely populated region or oil hub.

Biden didn’t look in their direction, instead concentrating on the families in need.

Cory Booker

READ MORE:  Mountainside solutions can reduce the impacts of climate change on drought

American politician, attorney, and author who has served as the junior United States Senator from New Jersey since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Booker is the first African-American U.S (wikipedia)


Presidency of Donald Trump

Donald Trump’s tenure as the 45th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 2017 and ended on January 20, 2021. Trump, a Republican originally from New York City, (wikipedia)


Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign

The 2020 presidential campaign of Joe Biden began on April 25, 2019, when Biden released a video announcing his candidacy in the 2020 Democratic party presidential primaries, (wikipedia)


Presidency of Joe Biden

Joe Biden’s tenure as the 46th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 2021. Biden, a Democrat originally from Delaware, (wikipedia)


Joe Biden

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, (wikipedia)


Phil Murphy

Philip Dunton Murphy is an American financier, diplomat and politician who has served as the 56th governor of New Jersey since January 2018. (wikipedia)


President pro tempore of the United States Senate

The president pro tempore of the United States Senate is the second-highest-ranking official of the United States Senate. Article One, (wikipedia)


First impeachment of Donald Trump

The first impeachment of Donald Trump occurred when Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, (wikipedia)

READ MORE:  Germany must cut energy consumption by 20-25% to reach 2030 goals


Donald Trump

Donald John Trump is an American media personality, businessman, and politician who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Born and raised in Queens, New York City, (wikipedia)


Hurricane Henri

Hurricane Henri was a minimal hurricane which became the first tropical cyclone to make landfall in the U.S. state of Rhode Island since Hurricane Bob in 1991. The eighth named storm, (wikipedia)


White House Office

The White House Office is an entity within the Executive Office of the President of the United States . The White House Office is headed by the White House chief of staff, (wikipedia)


Johns Manville

Johns Manville is an American corporation based in Denver, Colorado that manufactures insulation, roofing materials, and engineered products. For much of the 20th century, (wikipedia)