From Floods To Fires, A Summer Of Extreme Weather Shows Climate Change’s Impact
From multiple heat waves and raging wildfires in the western United States and Canada, to deadly flooding in Germany, Belgium and China, a string of extreme weather events across the globe this summer have driven home the pressing threat of climate change. What is the link between such extreme incidents and the human-caused global warming that scientists have been warning about for decades, and what action needs to be taken? In for Jim Braude, Sue O’Connell was joined by Susan Joy Hassol, director of the nonprofit Climate Communication; and David Cash, dean of UMass Boston’s Graduate School of Policy & Global Studies.