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Why Extreme Weather Keeps Surprising You

Why Extreme Weather Keeps Surprising You

Scientists are trying to determine when a hot summer is climate change, or just the weather.

What Next | Daily News and Analysis · Slate Podcasts

June 28, 202427m 1s

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Show Notes

Saying any one storm or heat wave or weather in general was “caused by climate change” is tricky—summer is, after all, usually pretty hot, and storms happen. But researchers are working on a model that brings “climate change” from abstract into the particular.  


Guest: Daniel Swain, climate scientist at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, studying how extreme events are changing on a warming Earth.


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