 Hi everybody welcome to module two on recent climate and I'm standing here in Duke Gardens it's 2019 and if you came to Duke Gardens 12 years ago 15 years ago you would never see so much lush subtropical vegetation and the vegetation has changed here because climate has changed in this region and that is happening everywhere and the predictions are for more severe storms and that is already borne out with Hurricane Katrina 2005, Hurricane Sandy 2012 that struck New York and Hurricane Harvey in 2017 that dumped 56 inches of rain in Metro Houston. So all of the predictions are coming true for climate climate change and this is what's being borne out in the recent climate record. I just wanted to mention one other thing last year was a devastating fire year in California and drought and fires are definitely part of the prediction for global climate change in Arab regions such as the US Southwest. So I think in this module you'll learn a lot about the recent climate record and how that projects to the future of what we'll see with continued global climate change. I hope you enjoy the module.