Whenever weather extremes are covered in the media (and TV loves weather extremes), they try to avoid getting entangled in the climate-change debate. Until it becomes too obvious to ignore.
The PBS Newshour is willing to take it on – as in this interview with Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist with the federal government’s National Center for Atmospheric Research, who, unilke his Canadian counterparts, is actually allowed to say things like this out loud:
… you look out the window and you see climate change in action. This is the way it gets manifested. …
If we have a very mild winter, actually, people like that, because the winter isn’t as cold. But we were breaking records then.
Now we’re breaking records, but we’re in the peak of the heat season. And now we’re going outside of the realm of conditions previously experienced. And so that’s when the damage really becomes extreme …
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