Extreme Weather Tips the Scales
For our climate segment of the week, Bob Henson discusses how global warming is factoring into extreme weather events and how scientists are considering changing the scales in with which these events are measured.
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Show Notes
Hurricane Beryl accumulated strength quickly due to unseasonably warm water, while at the same time, extreme heat is expected to break some records in Death Valley. For our climate segment of the week, Bob Henson, meteorologist, journalist, regular contributor to Yale Climate Connections and author of The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate Change (American Meteorological Society, 2019), discusses how global warming is factoring into extreme weather events and how scientists are considering changing the scales in with which these events are measured.