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Can a colossal extreme weather event galvanize action on the climate crisis? » Yale Climate Connections

Published Date and Time: 2024-09-19 15:50:33


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Many extremes over the past 40 years might have triggered transformational change – but didn’t. Meteorologist Dr. Jeff Masters explains.

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Since the summer of 1988, there have been many extreme weather and climate events – each consistent with human-caused warming – that, in another world, would have triggered the U.S. to make the transformational change needed to address the climate crisis. In this video version of this post, meteorologist Jeff Masters reviews those events and discusses the implications of our failure to take transformational action.


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