. >> sreivasan: kathie dello is the state climatologist for north carolina. she's also one of the authors of the state's climate science repo, an indepnt scientific assessment released this year on past climate trends, and how climate cafnge wilct the state as humans continue to emit greenhouse g rasses. tort finds that north carolina has already warmed one d oegree fahrenher the last 120 years, and that hhuvy rains froicanes and other weather systems will become more frequent and intense. that's already beg felt here y north carolinians. >> folks experience three big hurricanes in four years and truly said, "something's going on here. this isn't the north carolina that i grew up in.t we doe hurricanes like this with that much rain. we don't see floong like this." people have lived experiences with the climate d they're now saying, "okay, climate change is here and it's real." >> i can truthfully say in my lifetime, i've never see anything like the devastation that florence csed. it was a catastrophic event, there's no question. >> sreenivasan: republican ste