Climate change poses an existential threat to our lives, to our economy, and the threat is here. It`s not going to get any better. The question can`t get worse? We can stop it from getting worse.

While America is in much better shape than it was seven months ago when I took office, I need to tell you a second fact. We're in a tough stretch and it could last for a while.

We`ve got to listen to the scientists, and economists and the national security experts. They all tell us this is code red. The nation and the world are in peril. That is not hyperbole, that is a fact.

This is code red. The nation and the world are in peril. When I talk about building back better, I mean you can`t build to what it was before this last storm.

the evidence is clear. Climate change poses an existential threat to our lives, to our economy. The threat is here. It`s not going to get any better. The storms are going to get worse and worse and worse.

Folks, the evidence is clear, climate change poses an existential threat to our lives, to our economy. And the threat is here, it`s not going to get any better. The question: Can it get worse? We can stop it from getting worse.

The evidence clear, climate change poses an existential threat to our lives. We got to listen to the scientist and the economist and the national security experts. They all tell us this is Code Red. The nation and the world are in peril.

I will not repeat the mistakes we`ve made in the past, mistake of staying and fighting indefinitely.

And so folks, we've got to listen to the scientists and the economists, and the national security experts. They all tell us this is Code Red. The nation and the world are in peril.

The President's visits in the New York Metro area tomorrow follows one he made last week to Louisiana.

I will not repeat the mistakes we have made in the past, the mistake of staying and fighting indefinitely.

We have a significant piece of legislation, both infrastructure bill and a budget thing, a reconciliation bill, that calls for significant investment in being able to deal with what is about to come.

I am directing my gender policy council and the White House counsel`s office to launch a whole of government effort to respond to this decision, looking specifically to the Department of Health and Human Services and to the Department of…

There`s a lot of damage, and I made clear to the governors that my team at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, is on the ground and ready to provide all the assistance that`s needed.

These extreme storms in the climate clisis -- crisis are here.

The President has always made clear he also wants the administration to lay the groundwork for any future pandemics knowing that this isn't probably going to be the last.

In the past few days of Hurricane Ida and the wildfires in the West and the unprecedented flash floods in New York and New Jersey is yet another reminder that these extreme storms in the climate crisis are here. We need to do -- better…

I am absolutely delighted if Joe Biden want put together a whole government response.