Why Extreme Weather Keeps Surprising You
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:27.0 | Hi, hi. You want to tell me who you are? I'm Shaina Roth. I'm a senior |
| 0:38.0 | producer here at Slate and sometimes host. And sometimes host. And sometimes host. host. |
| 0:44.0 | Shaina lives with her family in Grand Rapids, Michigan, |
| 0:48.0 | and for the past few weeks has been contending with some pretty dramatic weather. |
| 0:52.0 | Can you tell me how you spent your Tuesday morning this week? |
| 0:57.0 | So Tuesday morning started out, I thought, like any other day. |
| 1:01.0 | I got up around 615 to get my daughter ready to go for |
| 1:06.3 | for summer camp slash daycare and it was raining it was storming a little bit |
| 1:11.6 | wasn't really expecting that but thought it's been raining a lot lately. |
| 1:16.1 | We're getting her ready to go. She's just finishing up her breakfast. And then all of a sudden, |
| 1:21.7 | the three of us, my husband, my kid kid and I were talking in the kitchen I just put |
| 1:25.2 | my hand up because I hear something really faint. I'm like wait wait wait wait wait wait wait stop |
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