Biden says jobs that pay $45 or $50 an hour — not $7 or $12 — are part of his climate-infrastructure plan.

Tripti Bhattacharya, Thonis Family Professor and assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted by Business Insider for the article “Biden says jobs that pay $45 or $50 an hour — not $7 or $12 — are part of his climate-infrastructure plan.” Bhattacharya, an expert on the relationship between regional rainfall and climate change, says that hurricane Ida had the perfect conditions to wreak havoc across both the South and the Northeast. “A storm like this would have been exceptionally rare 20 or 50 years ago, but we have to start thinking about it becoming the norm as the climate warms,” Bhattacharya says.