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I'm Greg Dalton, and today on Climate 1, we're talking about the weather.

All across the country, the weather lately has been crazy weird.

While the east was slammed this winter with massive snowstorms and biting cold temperatures,

the West experienced searing droughts and was unseasonably warm.

The weather is running hot and cold. Is this just a

freakish spell or is it a sign of climate change driven by burning fossil fuels? On the show today,

we will explore the link between weather, climate, and fossil fuels and more. With our audience here

at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, we will also talk about

what people and governments can do to understand and prepare for weather whiplash. We're

joined by three guests. Louise Bedsworth is deputy director at Governor Brown's Office of Planning

and Research. She has a PhD in Energy and Resources from UC Berkeley. Hunter Cutting is director of strategic communications at Climate Nexus,

a nonprofit communications firm focused on climate.

And Kathy Sullivan runs the weather for President Obama.

As administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,

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